Bond markets are starting to crack under pressure, with yields pushing toward levels not seen all year and rate hike odds quietly creeping higher. Global shipping is getting squeezed on two fronts at once and the macro picture is getting messier by the day. 

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Oil’s rally has legs: Brent crude climbed back above $93 as Strait of Hormuz crossings hit single digits per day and Houthi threats in the Red Sea added a second front to the global shipping squeeze.

The pressure is showing up in bond markets, with the 10-year Treasury yield touching 4.66% and rate hike odds for next week’s Fed meeting jumping from 16% to 25% in just a few days.

Super Micro Computer surged on a margin expansion surprise that nearly doubled its original gross margin targets, lifting Dell and HPE along for the ride.

GE Vernova slid after missing EPS despite beating on revenue and raising full-year guidance, a reminder that in this market, missing the bottom line is all the crowd remembers.

Moody’s reported stronger second-quarter earnings as higher bond issuance lifted ratings revenue, while improved activity across corporate debt markets provided another source of growth for the company’s core analytics and credit-assessment operations.

The company benefited as businesses returned to debt markets to refinance obligations and raise capital, reinforcing the importance of Moody’s ratings franchise. Stronger issuance volumes helped offset the uneven economic backdrop facing borrowers and financial institutions.

Northern Trust reported an 88% jump in second-quarter profit, with asset-management fees and market activity supporting results alongside a one-time gain connected to Visa’s share-exchange offer.

The bank’s performance shows that wealth management, custody services, and capital markets activity are strengthening revenue beyond traditional lending, providing Northern Trust with greater support as financial institutions compete for institutional assets and affluent clients.

AMD is set to sell Anthropic tens of billions of dollars in AI servers while also investing up to $5 billion in the Claude maker, giving the chipmaker another major customer in Nvidia’s core market.

Anthropic will buy up to two gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 chips starting in the first half of 2027, while AMD ties its investment to deployment milestones as AI firms race to lock down compute capacity.

Amazon cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence group as it sharpened focus on the AI initiatives it says matter most for customers, adding another workforce reset to its broader efficiency push.

The company did not disclose how many roles were affected, but said large AI models remain one of its most important areas after a much larger round of job cuts earlier this year.

GE Vernova delivered another strong quarter and raised full-year guidance again as demand for grid equipment, gas power, and electrification systems continued to build behind the AI data-center power cycle.

Orders jumped 88% to $24.2 billion, lifting backlog to $176 billion and keeping the company tied to one of the market’s biggest infrastructure questions: how much new electricity AI will require.

TE Connectivity reported better-than-expected results as AI-related demand strengthened across its interconnect and sensor portfolio, with adjusted EPS of $2.94 and revenue of $5.16 billion both ahead of Wall Street forecasts.

The company also guided above expectations for the next quarter, helped by demand from data centers, transportation, energy networks, and automated factories, giving the story a broader industrial-tech angle rather than a simple earnings beat.

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Johnson & Johnson received FDA De Novo authorization for its OTTAVA robotic surgical system, clearing the table-integrated platform for multiple upper-abdomen general surgery procedures, including gastric bypass, appendectomy, splenectomy, and hernia repair.

The company plans a selective U.S. commercial launch while pushing additional indications over time, giving J&J a bigger MedTech foothold in soft-tissue robotics and a direct answer to the long-dominant Intuitive Surgical ecosystem.

Nvidia introduced a new medical robotics tool with its Medical Physics Simulation framework, giving developers a GPU-accelerated way to model anatomy-device interactions, build synthetic training cases, and test robot behavior before hardware-heavy trials.

The release keeps Nvidia’s healthcare push tied to software and simulation, not only chips, while giving device makers a way to train surgical and diagnostic robots on rare scenarios that are hard to capture in real operating rooms.

Tesla launched unsupervised robotaxi rides in Orlando and Tampa, turning its Florida rollout into a broader test of whether Full Self-Driving can move from product promise to paid mobility service.

The expansion gives Tesla a cleaner software story at a time when its core auto margins remain under pressure, as the company tries to show that autonomous driving can become a repeatable revenue stream beyond vehicle sales.

Uber and Lyft won a federal court block on New York City’s deactivation law, stopping rules that would have required ride-hailing platforms to give drivers advance notice before removing them from their apps.

The ruling gives both companies more room to manage driver access, safety reviews, and platform standards without a new city-level process slowing every removal decision.

Zhongchao Inc. [ZCMD] $4.29 (+191.84%)

Zhongchao is a Chinese medical education and healthcare information platform that tripled on 129x relative volume with a $1.7M market cap.

No catalyst on record and no analyst rating; this is what pure momentum buying looks like on a micro-float name. The move is real; what comes next usually is not.

PN Smart Energy [PN] $9.34 (+131.76%)

PN Smart Energy is a utilities play that nearly doubled on 465x relative volume out of a $57.68M market cap with no EPS history and no analyst rating.

When a small-cap utilities name runs on 465x volume with no visible trigger, it is either a catalyst the market knows about before the filing hits, or it burns fast. Watch the follow-through.

Advanced Biomed [ADVB] $12.25 (+73.02%)

Advanced Biomed is a health tech name that jumped 71.37% on 5x relative volume with a $20.05M market cap and $0.16 EPS at a 76x P/E.

No analyst rating and no disclosed catalyst, but positive earnings in a loss-heavy biotech peer group is enough to get buyers interested fast. The float is small enough that it does not take much.

Axe Compute [AGPU] $7.11 (-25.47%)

Axe Compute dropped 26.31% on 9.31x volume with an $80.04M market cap and eye-watering negative EPS of $147.99. The health technology label is misleading for what reads more like a compute infrastructure play with no revenue traction.

Heavy losses and a big volume selloff in the same session tend to mean smart money already made up its mind.

Pegasystems [PEGA] $25.99 (-16.00%)

Pega is the most consequential name on today’s loser list: a $4.24B enterprise software company with a Strong Buy consensus, $1.86 EPS, and 80% EPS growth, down 18% on 4.17x volume.

That kind of drop on that kind of profile means guidance disappointed badly enough to override everything the bulls had going for them. Worth watching into next quarter.

Maase Inc. [MAAS] $16.50 (-17.46%) 

Maase carries a $7.25B market cap, making it the largest company on today's loser list by a wide margin, yet it has no EPS history, no analyst rating, and traded on just 0.62x average volume.

A name that size moving 18% lower on below-average volume is a structural unwind, not a panic, and those tend to take longer to resolve.

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