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Morgan Stanley is eating crow on the dollar. The bank openly admitted it got the call wrong, with rising Treasury yields and the prospect of further Federal Reserve rate hikes dismantling its bearish dollar thesis. Expect the greenback to stay supported as long as the rate narrative holds.
And that rate narrative runs straight through the Fed itself, where new Chairman Kevin Warsh is moving fast. Warsh is reshaping the institution at a clip that's drawing internal resistance, but his emerging policy framework leaves the door open to additional hikes — a signal markets are taking seriously as they reprice risk across fixed income.
Meanwhile, a semiconductor-focused ETF is drawing attention for the concentration of its bets, with roughly thirty-five percent of its assets sitting in just four names — Intel, AMD, Micron, and Nvidia. That kind of exposure amplifies both the upside from AI-driven chip demand and the downside if any one of those names stumbles. Diversification, it is not.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
