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Markets Desk · 6 AM Update

Good evening, this is Markets Desk with your closing brief.

Trump has canceled new military strikes on Iran following requests from Middle East allies, with the president claiming the perimeters of a deal have been agreed to. Markets will be watching closely, as any reduction in regional tension tends to ease oil risk premiums and stabilize broader sentiment heading into the overnight session.

Shifting to the supply chain story reshaping the AI trade, Mexico has quietly become a critical node in the artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, now supplying forty percent of US server imports this year. Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding assembly operations there, and servers have overtaken autos as the country's top export to the United States — a structural shift with real implications for nearshoring and semiconductor logistics.

And on the equity side, Cathie Wood is adding to her SpaceX position even as the stock sits fifty percent below its post-IPO high. Wood's conviction rests on reusable rocket economics and the long-term cost curve of commercial space. Whether that thesis holds depends on execution timelines that remain, for now, speculative at best.

That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.

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