Wall Street's rate shock spreads beneath AI-fueled market rally
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- ✓Wall Street’s AI-fueled rally is hiding a wider market retreat as rising interest rates and oil prices take a toll.
- ✓Aubin said, "The cap-weighted S&P 500 is masking a lot of the damage happening beneath the surface." Many small-cap stocks fell, while bond yields reached their highest levels.
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The AI-fueled resilience of the world's most-watched stock indexes is masking a widening retreat across financial markets, as elevated oil prices and borrowing costs take their toll.
Yields on 10-year US Treasuries approached 5.4% this week, their highest since 2002 as Brent crude hovered above $100 a barrel, stoking fears of a prolonged inflation shock. The price of money is rising across much of the world, sending UK borrowing costs to a 19-year high and adding to the pressure on French government debt.
For all the turmoil, the big equity benchmarks have proved resilient. The S&P 500 hit a record on Tuesday, stumbled over the next two sessions amid fears over AI demand, then bounced back Friday as traders looked ahead to another bumper earnings season. It remains within striking distance of its peak.
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