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In mainland China, a robotics debut is turning heads across global equity markets. Unitree, the first humanoid robot company to list on a Chinese exchange, saw its shares surge more than six hundred percent on its opening day of trading, signaling that investor appetite for physical AI and automation plays remains extraordinarily hot, particularly in Asia.
Shifting to currencies, dollar bears are finding fresh ammunition. Strategists at several major institutions are flagging a convergence of pressures — softer U.S. economic data, uncertainty around Federal Reserve policy, and growing concern over Treasury market stability. That combination is raising serious questions about whether the greenback's recent resilience has run its course.
And over at Tesla, the electric vehicle giant's market capitalization has slipped below one point five trillion dollars, a threshold that carries real psychological weight for institutional holders. The bears point to delayed robotaxi revenue, rising capital expenditures, and margin compression as the core thesis, though bulls argue the long-term automation story remains structurally intact. The debate is far from settled.
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