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The 30-Year Stopped at 5.216%. What the Tape Did Next Was Not a Straight Line.
Treasury's $25 billion long bond cleared at a high yield of 5.216% on August 13, the costliest long-dated borrowing since 2001. But the bond rallied roughly four basis points that same afternoon before giving it back Friday — and the widely circulated "6.6 basis point tail" is not a tail at all.
Russell 2000 Closes at a Record as the Dow Finishes the Week Alone in the Red
Small caps set a closing high on a day the other three indexes slipped. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq stretched their weekly win streaks to three; the Dow did not join them.
Reddit Joins the S&P 500 on Tuesday. The Mechanics Are the Story, Not the Pop.
S&P Dow Jones Indices adds RDDT before Tuesday's open in place of AvalonBay. J.P. Morgan puts the passive bid near 16.7 million shares — but the index effect is not what it used to be.
The S&P 500 and Russell 2000 Set Records in the Same Session. That Combination Deserves a Second Look
Thursday produced record closes for both the large-cap benchmark and the small-cap index, an unusual pairing given how differently the two normally respond to the same news. The mechanism connecting them was the rate path, not earnings — and inside the tape, the day was far less uniform than the index prints suggest.
Asia's AI Trade Carried the Overnight Tape Into a Softer US Inflation Print
Seoul posted a second consecutive gain of more than three percent and Tokyo followed, while European shares edged higher and US futures hovered near flat. Then July producer prices landed flat and jobless claims rose, taking pressure off the rate-hike case the overnight bid had been leaning on.
Thursday's $25 Billion Bond Sale Tests Who Is Still Buying the Long End
The Treasury closes out its August refunding with a new-issue 30-year auction at 1 p.m. ET, with the long bond near a two-decade high. July's sale cleared, but on an unusually lopsided foreign bid — and July was a reopening, not a new issue.
AI server makers carry the Nasdaq to a higher close while the Dow finishes fractionally lower
Wednesday's official closing prints show a market that split inside the technology sector rather than between risk and safety, with Super Micro, Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise leading the S&P 500 and megacap software lagging.
A near-record crude inventory build collides with stalled Hormuz talks, and oil barely budges
US crude stocks rose 17.4 million barrels last week, the biggest weekly gain since January 2023, yet WTI slipped only 0.40% on Wednesday. The geopolitical bid is doing a lot of work.
Stocks advance as July CPI lands on forecast and September hike odds fade
An inflation print that matched expectations down to the decimal point let Wall Street push the S&P 500 back toward its record, with chip and AI infrastructure names doing the heavy lifting.
Stocks Drift Near Records as Wall Street Weighs Iran Impasse Ahead of CPI
The S&P 500 hovered near record territory Tuesday while the Dow edged higher and the Nasdaq slipped, as traders balanced stalled U.S.-Iran diplomacy against Wednesday's pivotal inflation report.