Cannon Pre-Market BriefingContact Cannon Trading Company · Intelligence Desk
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Eli G Levy · eli@cannontrading.com
The Read — The Break Below the Flip, and a Chip Rout Overseas

S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures point lower for a second day, with the S&P 500 implied near 7,693, about 70 points under the dealer flip after Wednesday's first close beneath it in nine sessions, as Korea's chip-driven rout deepened and the ten-year yield slid toward 5.1%.

A hot September CPI turned a record-chasing tape into the largest one-day drop since July, Nasdaq futures are down about 1.2% this morning, and Taiwan Semiconductor's record quarter and raised guidance did not stop its shares from trading lower.

ES Dec
7,744.50
−0.33% · vs settle
NQ Dec
29,830
−1.17% · vs settle
VIX
16.87
Wed close · +1.60
WTI Nov
93.8
−1.4% · live
US 10Y
5.19%
−3bp · Wed close
TODAY 8:30 PPI, retail sales, Philadelphia Fed and jobless claims  ·  Before the open: PNC, U.S. Bancorp, Schwab, BNY, Prologis (Taiwan Semiconductor already out)  ·  4:30 PM Fed balance sheet  ·  Tax date  ·  11:30 PM Fed Chair Warsh speaks  ·  Friday: monthly options expiration
ACT ITrade Today
What the setup is, what moves it, and where the levels sit before the bell.
02

The 90-Second Read

REGIME
Negative gamma,
44 points under the flip
Wednesday's cash close finished 44 points below the close-based gamma flip (7,763.27), the first close under it after eight straight above, so by the prior-close rule the tape opens in the amplified regime, where dealer hedging leans with a move rather than against it. The flip jumped 28 points from Tuesday's read, so the cushion that was 71 points in the market's favor is now a 44-point gap against it. Live ES, less the basis, implies SPX near 7,693, about 70 points under the flip. What changes it: a cash close back above the flip, a rise of about 0.6% from Wednesday's close; an overnight print does not reset the regime.
  1. Futures extend the break S&P 500 futures are −0.33% against Wednesday's settle, which implies cash near 7,693 and would open the index about 26 points under Wednesday's close. Nasdaq futures are −1.17%, while Dow futures are +0.24% and small-cap futures +0.31%. Wednesday itself was the largest one-day fall in the S&P 500 since July, down 1.11%, with the Nasdaq Composite off 1.88%, the Russell 2000 off 1.93%, the Dow only 0.09% lower, and the semiconductor index down 4.3% for a sixth straight decline. Health care and consumer staples each rose about 2.4% while technology fell about 2.6%.
  2. The CPI beat changed the Fed math September consumer prices rose 0.6% on the month and 3.7% from a year earlier, against 3.6% expected and 3.4% in August; core rose 0.3% on the month against 0.2% expected and 2.6% on the year against 2.5%. The chance of an October 28 hike jumped from about 21% to a peak above 50% on the print and sits near 27% this morning, while Citigroup's economists now expect a December hike and no cut before June 2027.
  3. Asia sold the chips hardest Korea's Kospi closed down 7.6% after a trading halt, with Samsung down about 9.5% and SK Hynix about 12.5%. Japan's Nikkei fell 4.9%, Taiwan's index 3.4%, Shanghai 1.6% and Hong Kong 1.0%. Europe held up better: the Stoxx 600 is down about 0.2%, the DAX 0.4% and London is up 0.5%.
  4. The bond market rallied The ten-year ended Wednesday at 5.19% after touching about 5.3% on the CPI print, and overnight it has dropped roughly 8 basis points to near 5.11%, with 30-year bond futures up about 1.3% against Wednesday's settle. That is a flight to safety, not inflation relief, which is why it sits alongside weaker equity futures.
  5. Taiwan Semiconductor's record was not enough The chip foundry reported a sixth straight record quarter with earnings of NT$29.43 a share, raised its 2026 dollar sales-growth forecast to 44% from slightly over 40%, guided fourth-quarter revenue to $52.3 billion to $54.3 billion and left its $60 billion to $64 billion capital budget unchanged. Its U.S.-listed shares are down about 2.1% in the premarket, in line with Micron (−4.2%) and Nvidia (−2.1%).
  6. Levels into the open The dealer model's call wall is 7,800, 81 points above Wednesday's close, and its put wall sits at 7,700, 19 points below it, so the two walls are only 100 points apart and the market opens between them. Cannon's ES pivot is 7,796.67, with first support at 7,713.58 and first resistance at 7,852.33.
03

The Scoreboard

InstrumentLevelChangeSession
S&P 500Record close 7,818.93 on Oct 6 · now 1.28% below it7,718.94−1.11%Wed close
Nasdaq Composite26,692.87−1.88%Wed close
Dow Jones Industrials51,621.48−0.09%Wed close
Russell 20002,729.53−1.93%Wed close
Semiconductor index (SOX)11,684.38−4.30%Wed close
ES Dec 26Wednesday settle 7,770.25 · 52-week high 7,897.57,744.50−0.33%Live vs settle
NQ Dec 26Settle 30,182.7529,830.50−1.17%Live vs settle
YM Dec 26Settle 51,85851,983+0.24%Live vs settle
RTY Dec 26Settle 2,745.02,753.6+0.31%Live vs settle
WTI Nov 26Wednesday settle 95.0993.75−1.4%Live vs settle
BrentWednesday settle 106.06104.29−1.7%Live vs settle
Gold Dec 26Settle 4,107.904,175.6+1.65%Live vs settle
Silver · CopperDec contracts55.88 · 6.66−6.10% · −1.83%Wed settle
Natural gas Nov3.249+1.6%Live vs settle
US 10-yearTreasury yield · change vs Tuesday's close · near 5.11% overnight5.19%−3bpWed close
Dollar index (DXY)102.11−0.43%Live
EUR/USD · USD/JPY1.1210 · 157.85Live
Bitcoin80,840−0.9%Live vs prior day
Bank of America · Morgan Stanley · BlackRockReported Wednesday · Wed close, premarket move in brackets−4.8 (+1.0%) · −2.7 (+0.4%) · +0.7%Wed close
Micron · Nvidia · CoreWeave · OracleWednesday close · premarket move in brackets−4.1 (−4.2%) · −3.2 (−2.1%) · −15.5 (−5.6%) · −8.8 (−1.7%)Wed close
UnitedHealthBeat and raised guidance Wednesday395.62+4.7%Wed close

Live prices as of about 6:45 ET; index rows are Wednesday's closes and futures changes are against Wednesday's settle. Overnight closes: Kospi 5,554 (−7.6%), Nikkei 64,426 (−4.9%), Taiwan 46,970 (−3.4%), Hang Seng 24,063 (−1.0%), Shanghai 3,707 (−1.6%); the Stoxx 600 and DAX are down 0.2% and 0.4% at the time of writing.

Sentiment & Flow Gauges

GaugeReadingRead
VIXWednesday close · prior close 15.2716.87LIFTING Up 10.5% on the day and near 17.6 in extended trading; the volatility of volatility index rose to 94.4 from 85.4
Dealer gamma regimeWednesday cash vs. close-based flip−44.33NEGATIVE First close under the flip after eight above
S&P 500 new highs / lows52-week · prior session18 / 12NARROW Highs still outnumbered lows on a 1.1% down day, but the count is small
S&P 500 above 200-day48.3%THIN Down about half a point from a day earlier
S&P 500 up / down volume42% upMIXED Sellers had the larger share, well short of an extreme
High-yield spreadICE BofA HY OAS · latest print, Oct 133.16% · +13bp w/wWIDENING The latest print predates Wednesday's selloff

Flow Read

Wednesday was the first test of the regime that flipped under it, and the volatility complex answered: the index fell 1.1%, VIX gained 1.60 points and the volatility of volatility jumped nine points, while selling in the chip complex stretched to a sixth straight loss. The leadership that held the index up is now the part being sold, as the concentration numbers in Section 5 show. With monthly options expiration tomorrow, the structure that dealers hold against the market is large and is about to start rolling off.

Yesterday's Calls Graded

HIT
Cannon Desk. Wednesday's letter said the dampened regime would hold unless cash closed under the flip, and that a fall of about 0.9% would do it; the index fell more than 1% and closed 44 points under. The letter's record-open framing did not survive the CPI print.
OPEN
Ed Yardeni, Yardeni Research. S&P 500 at 7,900 by year-end; Wednesday's close is 2.3% under it.
OPEN
Andrew Tyler's desk, JPMorgan. Tactically bullish since September 28; the index is now about 0.5% above that close, so the call is narrowly ahead.
HIT
Jonathan Krinsky, BTIG. Expected the S&P 500 to chop and slip from its record; it closed 1.28% under the record close.
OPEN
Elizabeth Burton, Fortress. Roughly even odds of an October Fed hike against pricing near one in five; pricing is now near 27% after touching above 50%, moving her way but not there.
04

Calendar & Scenario Map

Time ETEventConsensusPrior
Thu Oct 158:30 September PPI (headline / core), retail sales (headline / ex-autos), Philadelphia Fed index and jobless claims · 10:00 business inventories · Treasury bill settlement, about $272B against $250B maturing · 4:30 PM Fed H.4.1 balance sheet · tax date pulling cash into the Treasury's account · PNC, U.S. Bancorp, Schwab, BNY and Prologis report before the open; Interactive Brokers, J.B. Hunt and Alcoa after the close · 11:30 PM Fed Chair Warsh speaks at the IMF meetings in BangkokPPI 0.5% / 0.3%
Retail 0.3% / 0.6%
Philly 26.5 · claims 195K
PPI 0.4% / 0.2%
Retail 1.2% / 1.4%
Philly 37.8 · claims 197K
Fri Oct 16Monthly options expiration · 8:30 import and export prices · 9:15 industrial production · 5:00 euro-area CPI——
Oct 27–28FOMC; decision Wednesday at 2:00 PM. The Fed's quiet period begins October 17; the next meeting after this one is December 8–9——

Producer prices are forecast at 5.3% on the year for the headline against 5.4% in August, and 4.4% for core against 4.6%. Net bill issuance remains positive this week.

September PPI and retail salesThu Oct 15 8:30
CORE PPI AT OR UNDER 0.3%
Producer prices at or under forecast, with retail sales cooling from August's 1.2%, would fit the framing in which Wednesday's CPI was the energy shock and not a broad re-acceleration, the pairing in which desks describe December as the hike month.
CORE PPI ABOVE 0.3%
A hotter producer print alongside firm retail sales would support the argument that inflation is broadening into goods and services costs, and it would arrive with the index below the flip and the Fed's quiet period two days away.
The gamma flip and the chip tapeThu Oct 15 · cash open
CASH RECLAIMS THE FLIP
A cash session that gets back above the flip would move the model's regime back to the dampened column by the close, and desks tie that to the chip complex stabilizing after six straight losses in the semiconductor index.
CASH STAYS UNDER, THE PUT WALL FAILS
A session that stays under the flip with the put wall giving way would keep dealers hedging with the move and leave the heavy 7,500 to 7,700 put interest as the next structure below.
05

Levels & Structure

Cannon's own pivots put the ES Dec daily pivot at 7,796.67, with resistance at 7,852.33, 7,935.42 and 7,991.08 and support at 7,713.58, 7,657.92 and 7,574.83; the contract's 52-week high of 7,897.50 sits between the second and third resistance levels. The firm's trend signals still read up on both the short and long horizons for ES and NQ, and down on both for the 30-year bond, while gold and silver are down on the short horizon.

Cannon Daily Levels for October 15
Cannon Daily Levels · October 15
Cannon Edge futures snapshot for October 15
Cannon Edge · October 15
Gamma levelSPXES Dec · +51.31Role in today's tape
Call wall7,800.007,850About 81 points above Wednesday's close and 200 points lower than Tuesday's read of 8,000, so the dealer model's ceiling has moved down to the first big strike above the market. Raw open interest agrees: the October SPX chain's largest call strike above the market is 7,800 (about 30,300), ahead of 7,850 and 7,900 (about 17,000 to 17,800 each), and the November chain peaks at 7,900 (about 18,600) with 7,800 next (about 10,900). Today's expiring ES book has no wall: its call interest is a flat shelf from 7,800 to 7,925, led by 7,875 (about 1,800), which sits in index terms near 7,824.
Gamma flip7,763.277,815The regime boundary, 44 points above the close and up 28 points from Tuesday's read of 7,734.78, now 63 points above the put wall. The regime resets only on a cash close, not on an overnight print.
Put wall7,700.007,750Only 19 points under Wednesday's close and 100 points lower than Tuesday's 7,800. Raw open interest gives the level strong support as a shelf and not as a single peak: the October chain holds about 25,600 puts at 7,700, but the heaviest strike in the window, 7,500 (about 36,100), sits at its lower edge, with 7,600 (about 21,300) and 7,650 (about 14,200) between; the November chain shows the same shape, 7,500 at the edge, then 7,700 and 7,600. Today's ES expiry book has its heaviest puts at 7,700 (about 3,300), which is near 7,649 in index terms, so the near-dated book points lower than the model's wall.

Levels are SPX, close-based, from a public dealer-gamma (GEX) model. The ES column adds Wednesday's basis: the futures settle less the cash close. Open-interest peaks are a near-dated proxy and do not replace the model's levels; both chains show heavy interest at the lower edge of the readable window.

Volatility structure

SPX options imply annualized volatility near 13.4% against realized near 10.0%, a premium that widened on Wednesday's move. The volatility of volatility index closed at 94.4, up from 85.4 the day before, and the VIX futures curve could not be read this morning.

Concentration, not participation

The cap-weighted S&P fund trades at 3.629 times the equal-weight fund, down from 3.648 a day earlier, because the cap-weighted fund fell 1.08% against 0.57% for the equal-weight one. The Magnificent Seven fund closed at 72.87, down 1.9% from 74.30, so the largest names took the brunt of Wednesday's selling.

ACT IIThe Read
Who moved, what they actually said, and where the pressure is coming from.
06

Institutional Positioning

NEW · ROLLING OVER Jeff deGraaf Renaissance Macro Research

deGraaf says the memory-chip names are in the post-bubble phase of the cycle: an initial crack that ran through about August, an anemic rebound, and now a roll-over, and his firm's standing advice for six or seven months has been to sell them as they weaken instead of trying to sell the rallies. He called the reported Chinese memory-chip progress unproven but unsurprising, since peak margins invite competition.

His wider warning is about financing. Real yields near 20-year highs are tightening financial conditions, and the most exposed are companies that have to borrow or refinance in the market; he sees triple-B credit spreads widening and a smaller move in the lower grades, and expects the squeeze to move up the credit stack after Wednesday's inflation print. Health care, in his reading, is only starting to emerge after being among the most neglected sectors in more than 50 years of data.

NEW · CAUTIOUS Gary Cohen IBM · former Goldman Sachs president

Cohen calls himself generally cautious and describes a dilemma that did not exist for two decades: with the ten-year above 5% and tax-exempt municipal bonds near 5%, an investor can now earn a roughly 5% after-tax yield, against owning a stock market in a four-year bull run led by a small group of names. He sees the AI trade being re-evaluated rather than ending, saying the multiple re-rating is not a bear market, that the internal return on AI spending has so far been lower than companies projected, and that the neocloud operators face heavy financing costs.

He added that about 20 equity offerings in the past 10 weeks were pulled or postponed, a sign of anxiety, and that the government's own borrowing, around $40 trillion of debt, now competes with data centers for the same liquidity.

NEUT · CAPITAL DEMAND Larry Fink BlackRock

Fink says the quarter was flat for stocks and down about 3% for bonds, and that BlackRock still took in $205 billion of net inflows as more companies come to the firm looking for financing. His warning is the deficit: he says the government will need ever more credit, which weighs on the demand for capital elsewhere in the economy. His answer to the AI-funding problem is to securitize chips: working with the hyperscalers and chipmakers to model chip lifetimes and residual value so that data-center equipment can carry credit ratings, which he calls the only way to let companies beyond the five largest afford compute. He dismissed data-center water and power worries as mostly misinformation.

NEW · HIKES IN DECEMBER AND 2027 Seema Shah Principal Asset Management

Shah says the question after Wednesday's data is whether firmer core inflation is enough to alter the Fed's path, and she expects further hikes in December and early 2027.

07

Desk Shift Tracker

VoiceFirmStanceWhat changed in this window
Ed YardeniYardeni ResearchCAUT 7,900Held: a new paid note carries a proceed-with-caution headline and no stated change to the 7,900 target.
Larry FinkBlackRockNEUTNew: record-scale quarterly inflows, deficits and chip securitization. See card.
Gary CohenIBMCAUTNew: generally cautious on a 5% after-tax alternative, AI returns and pulled offerings. See card.
Jeff deGraafRenaissance Macro ResearchCAUTNew: memory chips rolling over, real yields tightening credit, health care emerging. See card.
Citigroup economics teamCitigroupCAUTShift: now expects a quarter-point hike in December, reversing a no-more-hikes call, with no cut before June 2027.
Seema ShahPrincipal Asset ManagementCAUTNew: expects hikes in December and early 2027. See card.
Nancy Vanden HoutenOxford EconomicsCAUTNew: forecasts a hike at the October meeting after the core surprise.
Mohit KumarJefferiesCAUTNew: a slowdown in AI infrastructure spending would mean a sharp downgrade to U.S. growth expectations.
Liz Ann SondersCharles SchwabNEUTHeld: inflation data decide whether hike odds move; breadth weak but a little better.
Matthew MiskinManulife John HancockBULLHeld: earnings have been incredible; expected relief if banks delivered, which Wednesday's reaction did not show.
Matt StuckyNorthwestern Mutual Wealth MgmtCAUTHeld: equities vulnerable if inflation re-accelerates, which the CPI print now supports.
Michael ReynoldsGlenmedeCAUTHeld: wanted progress on core services inflation before trusting the rally.
Elizabeth BurtonFortressCAUTHeld: favors floating-rate private credit and sees even October hike odds.
Mark NewtonFundstratBULLHeld: trends bullish, broadening encouraging, tech to lead; no new public note.
Shawn TutejaGoldman SachsCAUTHeld: says the asymmetry on AI upside has shifted.
Joachim KlementPanmure LiberumBEARHeld: bearish 2027 target on an AI bust.
Henry AllenDeutsche BankCAUTHeld: bonds and stocks price different regimes.
Deutsche Bank ResearchDeutsche BankBULLHeld: sees third-quarter earnings growth of 34%, above its stated consensus.
Cameron DawsonNewEdge WealthCAUTHeld: slower earnings growth next year leaves less buffer.
David KellerSierra Alpha ResearchCAUTHeld: wants far better moving-average breadth before trusting upside.
Tom LeeFundstratBULLHeld: sees a coiled spring and a dip worth buying; no new public note.
Jonathan KrinskyBTIGCAUTHeld: expected the S&P 500 to chop and slip from the record; it did.
Rick RiederBlackRockNEUTHeld: stocks are just okay, bonds a real alternative, December hike expected.
Tony PasquarielloGoldman SachsBULLHeld: primary trend higher; no new note.
Ohsung KwonWells FargoCAUT 7,700Held: year-end target of 7,700 set in September; the index is about 0.2% above it.
Mike WilsonMorgan StanleyCAUTHeld: breadth hides weakness; a pullback is a place to add risk, a framing Wednesday's drop now tests.

The caution camp now includes the rates economists, who moved from a December hike as a risk to a December hike as a base case, and the macro strategists who see credit conditions tightening; Miskin, Newton, Pasquariello, Lee and Deutsche Bank's research team are the earnings-and-AI-demand side, and none of them published anything new into Wednesday's selloff. No new notes surfaced from the largest banks' equity-strategy teams overnight.

08

Macro Pressure Map

GaugeReadingRead
Net liquidityFed balance sheet − TGA − RRP · Wednesday levels · updates Thu$5.86T · ▲ $112B w/wADDING Unchanged since last Thursday's release; the next update lands this afternoon after the close, with today's tax date pulling cash into the Treasury's account

Inflation and the Fed: broadening is the word

Jeffrey Roach, chief economist at LPL Financial, said inflation pressure is spreading beyond energy into categories such as apparel and autos. Oxford Economics, through lead U.S. economist Nancy Vanden Houten, has moved to forecasting an October hike. The test of whether it spreads further comes at 8:30 today with producer prices, forecast at 5.3% on the year, and retail sales, forecast to cool to 0.3% after 1.2%.

Rates: the long end blinked

The ten-year touched about 5.3% on Wednesday's print, closed near 5.2% and has fallen to near 5.11% overnight, while five-year and 30-year yields are down a similar 7 to 8 basis points. Wednesday's pattern of a hot data point, a rate spike and then a retreat into Treasuries as equities fell says the funding stress is now the story. Cohen's and Fink's warnings converge on the same point: government borrowing and corporate borrowing are competing for the same pool of capital.

Oil and the Gulf

West Texas crude is near 94 and Brent near 104, both lower overnight after settling at 95.09 and 106.06 on Wednesday. The supply story is still the Gulf: attacks on shipping near the Strait of Hormuz have continued, and the White House has said it is holding off strikes on Iran ahead of the November 3 midterms while warning the pause could end within weeks.

09

Portfolio Positioning

BAC · MS · BLK Wednesday's bank reports

Bank of America earned $0.91 a share, or $1.08 excluding a $1.2 billion regulatory settlement tied to anti-money-laundering and sanctions controls, on revenue of $30.0 billion, short of forecasts of $1.10 to $1.16, and the stock closed down 4.8%. Morgan Stanley earned $3.03 a share on revenue of $20.3 billion and beat most estimates, yet fell 2.7%. BlackRock earned $15.93 adjusted against $14.40 expected, on assets of $15.5 trillion and $205 billion of net inflows, and rose 0.7%. Morgan Stanley's fall despite a beat repeats the pattern the sector showed on Tuesday.

TSM · MU · NVDA · CRWV · ORCL Chips and the AI-funding names

CoreWeave fell 15.5% on Wednesday and Oracle 8.8%, and both companies' bonds hit record yields, a move that erased roughly $80 billion of market value across chipmakers, hyperscalers and cloud names. Micron closed down 4.1% and Nvidia 3.2%; premarket, Micron is −4.2%, Nvidia −2.1%, CoreWeave −5.6% and Taiwan Semiconductor −2.1% despite the record quarter. Jefferies economist Mohit Kumar said a slowdown in AI infrastructure spending would imply a sharp slowdown in U.S. growth expectations, while the firm still expects earnings and demand to prove robust and says it would take some chips off the table ahead of the midterm election.

UNH The sector that rose

UnitedHealth closed up 4.7% at $395.62 after beating estimates with adjusted earnings of $4.69 and raising its 2026 outlook to at least $20.50 a share, and health care as a whole gained about 2.4%.

PNC · USB · BNY · SCHW · PLD Today's reporters

PNC, U.S. Bancorp, BNY, Schwab and Prologis report before the open, against forecasts of $4.91, $1.32, $2.27, $1.66 and $0.78 a share. In early premarket trading PNC is down 3.1%, U.S. Bancorp up 1.8%, Schwab up 0.5% and Prologis up 0.4%; no confirmed figures were available at the time of writing.

10

Fed Watch

PricingHike oddsRead
October 28 meeting≈ 27%Up from about 21% before the CPI print and a peak above 50% on Wednesday; reads at the close ranged from 27% to 37%
December meeting≈ 67%The futures-based read at 4 AM; other reads run well above it, and Citigroup's economists now expect the hike

The funds target is 3.75% to 4.00% after September's hike, and there is no meeting in November, so the October 27 to 28 decision and the December 8 to 9 one are the only two windows left this year. New York's Williams said Tuesday that one more hike this year is appropriate and none is needed in 2027, and Bowman has said she sees no urgency for further action. Jason Schenker of Prestige Economics has floated a half-point move in December if a quarter-point does not slow inflation. Warsh speaks at the IMF meetings in Bangkok at 11:30 tonight, and the Fed's quiet period begins October 17.

ACT IIIThe Edge
Three things the tape is not pricing.
11

What the Consensus Is Missing

The AI trade is breaking on its credit, not its demand

Taiwan Semiconductor raised its full-year growth forecast to 44% and guided the next quarter 58% above a year ago at the midpoint, and its shares still fell, while the names that borrow to build, CoreWeave and Oracle, are the ones whose bonds hit record yields. Cohen's point about neocloud financing, Fink's proposal to securitize chips and deGraaf's warning that the squeeze moves up the credit stack are the same observation from three directions: the buildout is intact, and the rate at which it can be financed is what is being repriced.

The two gamma walls are only 100 points apart

The dealer model's ceiling fell from 8,000 to 7,800 and its floor from 7,800 to 7,700 in a single read, so the market opens in a corridor half the width of Tuesday's 200-point one, with ES implied about 7 points under the put wall. Below it the raw open interest is heavier, not lighter, at 7,500 to 7,700 in both the October and November chains, and tomorrow's monthly expiration is the first scheduled event that rolls part of that structure off.

Treasuries are rallying because equities are weak

A 3.7% inflation print would normally send the long end to fresh highs; instead the ten-year has retreated about 8 basis points overnight from its post-print spike. That is an equity-led flight to safety, and a hot producer print today is the one data point that could put the rate shock and the equity shock back on the same side.

12

The Close

The market starts the day under the flip for the first time in nine sessions, with futures pointing below Wednesday's close, a record-quarter chip foundry trading lower, and the bond market, not the Fed, supplying the only relief. The first test is producer prices at 8:30, the second is whether cash can regain the flip before tomorrow's expiration, and the one that matters most to the AI trade is the cost of the debt behind it.

Eli G Levy
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