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West Virginia has taken Pennsylvania to federal court, arguing the state's closed-border energy rules violate the Commerce Clause by locking out out-of-state suppliers. The suit contends Pennsylvania's protectionist framework artificially inflates electricity costs for consumers and stifles competition across regional power markets.
Shifting to currency markets, the Japanese yen is drawing renewed attention from equity traders. A rapid unwinding of the yen carry trade — where investors borrow cheaply in yen to fund positions in higher-yielding assets — could trigger a broad selloff, with high-valuation technology and AI names facing the sharpest pressure given their stretched multiples.
And in the AI monetization story that has Wall Street talking, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar outlined the company's advertising ambitions at a San Francisco conference, describing ChatGPT's ad model as what you would get if Google and Meta had a child. With one billion weekly users, OpenAI is now hunting ad revenue at scale, putting it on a direct collision course with two of the most powerful advertising platforms ever built.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
