The bond market briefly crossed a threshold that has not been seen since 2007, and that alone would have been enough for a memorable Monday.
Add in three of the biggest names in AI publicly agreeing that development needs to slow down, and you have a session that rewarded some and punished others in very specific ways. The full breakdown is below.
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Markets
The 10-year Treasury yield briefly touched 5% for only the second time since 2007 before pulling back to close near 4.99%, as Brent crude climbed toward $110 intraday before settling around $106.
Chip stocks cratered more than 5% after Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk reached a rare public agreement that AI development needs to pump the brakes on safety grounds. Trump fired back on Truth Social, telling the industry not to “kill the Golden Goose.”
Cybersecurity names surged as the direct read-through: slower AI buildout means more spending on securing what already exists. The Fed is still expected to raise rates Wednesday, and with the 10-year where it is, rate-sensitive sectors have nowhere to hide.
DJIA [-0.29%]
S&P 500 [-0.48%]
Nasdaq [-0.56%]
Russell 2000 [-0.40%]
Market-Moving News
Software & AI
Oracle is bringing voice-powered AI to nurses with a new tool for hospital documentation, helping staff retrieve patient information and complete charts while aiming to reduce administrative work and improve coordination across care teams.
Microsoft is proposing new rules to keep its AI under human control, including a draft code barring resistance to correction or shutdown and six weeks of public feedback before using those principles to train the company’s future models.
Energy & Utilities
Dominion and NextEra are offering Virginia more merger benefits through a supplier program worth up to $1 billion annually for five years, alongside longer customer bill credits and job protections, with the commitments contingent on regulatory approval of their combination.
Chevron is looking beyond existing gas hubs for growth as it explores LNG opportunities in Argentina and the Mediterranean, responding to buyers seeking more reliable supply while its portfolio heads toward 20 million metric tons of annual LNG supply capacity.
Healthcare & Pharma
Biofrontera has secured FDA approval to expand Ameluz into skin cancer treatment, with its gel and red-light lamp combination cleared for superficial basal cell carcinoma in adults, creating a new commercial market for the company’s existing dermatology products and equipment.
Scholar Rock expects its newly approved SMA treatment to cost about $310,000 annually for a typical patient, with Isembyld targeting muscle loss alongside existing therapies and actual treatment costs varying according to patient weight and insurance coverage, the company said.
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Defense & Aerospace
AeroVironment is upgrading its production data systems through a partnership with Nominal, connecting engineering tests and manufacturing checks as drone and weapons output expands, giving teams a shared record to track performance and quality across multiple defense programs and facilities.
Ondas is adding precision-weapons components to its defense business after acquiring GATE and Bron Technologies for $205 million upfront, plus potential payments of $185 million, expanding its manufacturing footprint while preparing to produce systems in the United States next year.
Robotics & Automation
Alphabet’s Waymo is taking its robotaxis to Las Vegas, opening its first public service in Nevada with a few dozen vehicles and plans to expand, bringing fresh competition to Amazon’s Zoox as autonomous ride services spread across major American cities.
Teradyne’s Universal Robots has introduced three new industrial robot arms through its Gen 7 platform, pairing easier sensor integration with a controller offering 40% more computing power, giving manufacturers more capacity to automate complex tasks within a smaller equipment footprint.
Top Winners and Losers
Future FinTech Group [FTFT] $8.04 (+179.17%)
Future FinTech is a Chinese fintech that has pivoted through crypto, blockchain, and digital finance, and nearly tripled as Bitcoin pushed toward $79,000.
No analyst coverage and deeply negative EPS, but when Bitcoin is running, momentum buyers do not wait around for fundamentals to catch up.
The Elmet Group [ELMT] $21.50 (+32.80%)
Elmet is an industrial manufacturer that surged on 56x its average volume with a Strong Buy consensus.
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Rapid7 [RPD] $12.79 (+24.05%)
Rapid7 is a cybersecurity and vulnerability management platform that bucked the broader tech selloff entirely. When AI safety fears dominate the tape, locking down existing infrastructure becomes the obvious trade.
It carries a Neutral rating, but today the market voted with its wallet and not with the analysts.
Horizon Quantum Holdings [HQ] $10.34 (-32.06%)
Horizon Quantum builds quantum computing software tools and got caught squarely in the AI safety crossfire.
When AI development timelines get questioned, downstream quantum computing funding and deployment schedules stretch out alongside them. Down 32% on nearly 9x average volume, the market priced that in immediately.
TEN Holdings [XHLD] $8.92 (-28.81%)
TEN Holdings is a commercial services company that dropped 28.81% in a session where risk-off sentiment swept through smaller tech-adjacent names.
No analyst coverage and a deeply negative EPS of -$4.73 leave this name with little institutional support on a day when the market is already looking for exits.
Swarmer [SWMR] $32.16 (-18.77%)
Swarmer is a technology services company with a Strong Buy consensus and a $512M market cap that fell as the AI safety selloff dragged the sector lower.
A strong analyst rating does not protect a name when the sector thesis is being questioned by its own builders.
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Everything Else
💼 The market is already asking what comes after the Magnificent Seven and analysts believe these 7 stocks have the fundamentals to answer that question.
📉 U.S. stocks pared most of their losses as oil prices pulled back, helping Wall Street recover from a broader slide in technology shares.
🤖 Global AI stocks fell after industry leaders called for slowing AI development, rattling a sector that has powered much of the market’s recent gains.
⚖️ Elon Musk’s X Corp and SpaceXAI resolved their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, bringing their high-profile legal battle with the iPhone maker to an end.
🔋 GM is pushing ahead with U.S. battery development as Ford faces scrutiny over China ties, putting domestic EV supply chains back in the spotlight.
🛡️ Microsoft drafted a code of conduct designed to keep its AI under human control, including safeguards aimed at preventing advanced systems from resisting shutdowns.
₿ Bitcoin’s late-summer rally is heading into a major test from the Fed and Congress, with monetary policy and Washington’s crypto agenda poised to shape its next move.
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