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Lacy Hunt spent forty-four years as one of Wall Street's most respected long-bond bulls, betting that falling rates would reward patience in long-term Treasurys. He's now reversed that position entirely, a signal the market cannot ignore. When a four-decade conviction folds, the implications for duration risk and portfolio construction are substantial.
Shifting to tech, Oracle shares have dropped to a fifty-two-week low, rattling investors who had priced in a premium for the company's AI-capable data centers. The question now is whether the selloff reflects genuine deterioration in the growth thesis or a broader rotation out of infrastructure names that ran too far, too fast. The answer, as analysts note, may not be straightforward.
Meanwhile, Alphabet's Google Cloud posted eighty-two percent year-over-year revenue growth in its most recent quarter, a number that commands attention in any environment. But analysts are flagging one structural red flag inside those figures, likely margin pressure or customer concentration risk, suggesting the headline growth rate may be obscuring a more complicated story underneath.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
