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Wall Street is pointing lower at the open as geopolitical risk jumps back to the front of the tape. The United States has launched strikes on Iran targeting underground nuclear facilities, and Iran has activated air defenses around its capital while retaliating against American allies across the Middle East. Expect safe-haven flows and energy markets to react sharply.
Turning to tech, OpenAI is moving beyond the model wars with a new corporate software product called Presence, aimed squarely at customer support, sales, and enterprise workflows. This is a deliberate pivot — as AI model competition intensifies and margins compress, Altman is betting that owning the software layer is where the durable revenue lives.
And on the wealth-building front, MarketWatch is out with a note that while a hundred thousand dollars invested was once considered the real threshold for compounding momentum, young investors today likely need closer to two hundred thousand to feel that same economic lift — a reflection of inflation, asset prices, and a cost-of-living landscape that has fundamentally shifted the goalposts.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
