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Treasury yields are holding steady this session as traders take a wait-and-see posture ahead of fresh economic data. With the Fed's next move still very much in debate, investors are reluctant to push rates in either direction until the numbers give them a clearer read on growth and inflation.
Shifting to the autonomous vehicle space, a telling structural story is emerging around Waymo. Former Lyft drivers in Nashville are now taking jobs cleaning and maintaining the very robotaxis that displaced them on the road. Lyft's Flexdrive subsidiary is opening an eighty-thousand-square-foot depot this October, employing roughly seventy full-time workers to service Waymo's fleet — a quiet but significant data point on how the labor market is adapting to automation.
And in biotech, Longeveron is executing a one-for-ten reverse stock split to maintain minimum bid price compliance on its Class A and Class B common shares. Moves like this are typically a distress signal — the company is essentially consolidating its share count to avoid a potential delisting, and the market responded predictably, with shares plunging on the announcement.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
