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Futures are bouncing as oil retreats from its recent spike, giving stocks some relief after a rough stretch. Oracle’s strong AI-cloud results are helping tech sentiment, but traders are still bracing for this morning’s CPI report with Treasury yields hovering near 5%.
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What to Watch
Earnings (Premarket):
· Kroger Company [KR]
· Hooker Furnishings Corporation [HOFT]
· Cheetah Mobile Inc. [CMCM]
· Rent the Runway, Inc. [RENT]
· MoneyHero Limited [MNY]
Earnings (Time Not Supplied):
· NioCorp Developments Ltd. [NB]
· HomesToLife Ltd. [HTLM]
· Zone Frontier Inc. [ZONE]
· The Children's Place, Inc. [PLCE]
· Celularity Inc. [CELU]
Economic Reports:
· Consumer price index (August): 8:30 am
· Core CPI, month over month (August): 8:30 am
· CPI, year over year (August): 8:30 am
· Core CPI, year over year (August): 8:30 am
· University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment (September): 10:00 am
· Monthly Treasury balance (August): 2:00 pm
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Market Pulse
Treasury yields are closing in on 5% as global bond markets remain under pressure, raising borrowing costs across the economy and giving richly valued stocks much tougher competition from fixed income.
The ECB raised rates again after inflation climbed above its 2% target, with markets now considering whether Europe’s tightening cycle could extend further even as higher borrowing costs weigh on growth.
Software & AI
Oracle’s AI backlog has reached $664 billion after another surge in cloud infrastructure demand, while quarterly data-center revenue hit $7.4 billion as the company races to add enough capacity for its largest customers.
Adobe’s AI products are growing fast, with annual recurring revenue from AI-first offerings more than doubling, although softer guidance shows Canva, Figma, and other challengers are keeping pressure on the creative-software leader.
Infrastructure & Innovation
The Pentagon could lend Fluidstack $5 billion through its Office of Strategic Capital to strengthen domestic data-center supply chains, showing how AI infrastructure is increasingly being treated as a strategic national asset.
IBM and NASA built an AI model for the Moon that can map ice, craters, and other lunar features with greater accuracy, potentially helping future missions identify safer landing sites and critical resources such as water.
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Consumer & Corporate
Macy’s raised its full-year outlook as Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury continued to outperform, but heavy turnaround spending means the namesake chain still has plenty of work left before stronger sales translate into cleaner profits.
Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36 billion in an all-cash acquisition of the workplace collaboration platform, extending its strategy of buying established digital businesses and aggressively restructuring them for growth.
Finance & Capital
Altera is preparing a $2 billion-plus IPO as Intel and Silver Lake look to bring the chipmaker back to public markets, potentially creating one of the largest semiconductor listings in years.
Germany is negotiating rather than fighting UniCredit as Berlin pushes to keep Commerzbank listed in Frankfurt and protect jobs, bringing one of Europe’s biggest potential cross-border bank combinations another step closer.
Trivia: Credit default swaps — the instruments at the center of the 2008 financial crisis — were invented relatively recently. Who created them and when?
- CDS contracts were developed by Goldman Sachs in 1989 as a way to hedge the default risk on their leveraged loan book — they were used internally for five years before becoming a tradable market product
- The Bank for International Settlements developed the credit default swap framework in 1992 as part of a Basel I implementation rule that required banks to hedge sovereign credit risk
- AIG Financial Products invented credit default swaps in 1987 as part of a broader structured credit initiative — the same division that later wrote $441 billion in CDS protection without adequate capital
- J.P. Morgan's Blythe Masters is widely credited with creating the modern credit default swap in 1994, when the bank needed a way to transfer Exxon's credit risk off its balance sheet after the Valdez oil spill
Movers and Shakers
RH [RH]: Premarket Move: +9%
RH surged after second-quarter earnings crushed Wall Street expectations. Adjusted EPS came in at $2.70 versus $0.39 expected, while revenue reached $922.2 million, ahead of estimates, giving traders fresh hope that the luxury furnishings company is beginning to regain momentum despite a difficult housing backdrop.
Oracle [ORCL]: Premarket Move: +7%
Oracle jumped after strong fiscal first-quarter results showed its AI cloud expansion gaining serious momentum. Revenue climbed 30% to $19.3 billion, adjusted EPS reached $1.92, and more than $30 billion of new AI cloud contracts pushed its backlog to $664 billion, easing concerns that massive data-center spending is running too far ahead of demand.
Adobe [ADBE]: Premarket Move: −3%
Adobe slipped despite beating third-quarter earnings and revenue estimates, as its forward outlook failed to clear increasingly high expectations. Revenue rose 13% to $6.76 billion and AI-first recurring revenue jumped more than 150%, but fourth-quarter revenue guidance of $6.80 billion to $6.85 billion came in roughly around consensus, keeping concerns about AI competition and Adobe’s growth trajectory in focus.
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Everything Else
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🚗 Copart agreed to buy ACV Auctions for $1.9 billion, expanding the vehicle-auction company into dealer-to-dealer wholesale sales.
💊 Biohaven shares fell after the FDA paused new enrollment in trials of its experimental epilepsy drug following findings in animal studies.
🛍️ Macy’s raised its annual forecasts as Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury delivered strong comparable-sales growth, although turnaround costs pressured shares.
⚡ Energy Transfer, USA Compression Partners and Sunoco plan to move their primary listings from the NYSE to the new Texas Stock Exchange in October.
💾 Intel-backed Altera is preparing a major IPO that could raise more than $2 billion as the programmable-chip maker returns to public markets.
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