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The ten-year Treasury yield pushing above five point three percent is forcing a real conversation about equity valuations, especially in growth names. But analysts note that Nvidia and Microsoft retain structural earnings power that justifies premium multiples even in a higher-for-longer rate environment, keeping institutional money anchored in mega-cap tech.
Shifting to Washington, President Trump disclosed five hundred seventeen trades executed in August, including positions worth up to twenty-five million dollars in Meta and up to five million in SpaceX debt. SpaceX holds significant Pentagon and NASA contracts, making the disclosure particularly notable from a conflict-of-interest standpoint, and it will draw fresh scrutiny from ethics watchdogs on Capitol Hill.
Meanwhile, Meta's new Muse platform is giving AMD and Intel shareholders something to cheer about. Agentic AI workloads favor inference-heavy, cost-efficient chips over pure GPU horsepower, and that shift is rotating institutional money toward those older hardware names that spent much of the AI boom sitting on the sidelines while Nvidia collected all the glory.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
