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Jamie Dimon is sounding the alarm on leverage, telling markets that broad-based borrowing levels are, in his words, pretty high, and that the combination of elevated leverage and growing appetite for leveraged exchange-traded funds raises the real risk of sudden, sharp market dislocations when volatility spikes.
Shifting to equities, Axon delivered a beat on both the top and bottom lines and raised its full-year guidance, which on paper reads like a textbook rally setup. But the stock sold off anyway, a classic case of the market having already priced in the good news, leaving traders to sell into the confirmation rather than chase it higher.
And over at Uber, Chief Technology Officer Sukumar Rathnam says the company is closing the chapter on what he called its tokenmaxxing era, the period of aggressive, high-volume AI token consumption. Adoption has quadrupled internally, but the focus now is efficiency over scale, with per-token costs declining through deliberate cost management strategies. That shift signals AI is maturing from experiment to infrastructure inside one of the world's largest logistics platforms.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
