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Nvidia continues to defy gravity even as the broader AI trade shows signs of stress. While Broadcom and Oracle have seen their price-to-earnings ratios compress and credit default swap spreads widen on concerns about AI financing, Nvidia remains largely insulated — a sign the market still views it as the indispensable backbone of the entire buildout, not a downstream beneficiary.
Shifting to the macro picture, Citi is raising a flag that deserves attention. The bank is drawing parallels to nineteen seventies-style market conditions, pointing to elevated Treasury yields, sticky inflation, and expensive oil coexisting with an equity market still hovering near record highs. Citi's concern is that the resilience itself may be the warning sign — markets pricing out risk they haven't fully accounted for.
And in defense and nuclear, BWX Technologies just secured another one hundred eighty nine million dollar contract manufacturing compact naval reactor components — work it has done for decades. No moonshot required here. This is a company with entrenched government relationships and recurring revenue, and in an uncertain tape, that kind of visibility tends to attract serious institutional attention.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
