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Crude oil is sliding to a one-month low today, with West Texas Intermediate down more than one percent as fresh supply signals out of the Middle East ease concerns about regional disruption. More barrels reaching the market means less of a risk premium baked into prices, and that's showing up at the pump as well, with gasoline futures tracking lower in tandem.
Shifting to tech, Marvell Technology is rallying sharply after delivering what Wall Street is calling good numbers plus a better story. The chipmaker not only beat on its financial forecasts but demonstrated a diversified book of customers and products that gives analysts confidence the growth isn't one-dimensional. In a sector where single-customer dependency has become a red flag, that breadth matters.
And on the AI infrastructure front, both Meta and Microsoft have quietly signaled to employees that they're moving away from paying outside model providers like Anthropic and toward building proprietary AI capabilities in-house. At the scale these two companies operate, the licensing costs become untenable, and the strategic logic of owning your own stack is increasingly hard to argue against. The era of renting intelligence may be giving way to building it.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
