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Welcome to Markets Desk, your midday read on what's moving markets and making headlines.
Google delivered the week's clearest statement on where Big Tech is placing its bets. After a strong earnings report, the stock surged as investors rewarded the company's aggressive push into compute infrastructure. Sam Altman has long argued that compute is destiny, and Google's numbers made the case better than any press release could.
Staying with the macro picture, the Geopolitical Risk Index has climbed to its highest level in nearly twenty-five years, and that pressure is landing squarely on bank balance sheets. Regulators and risk managers are being urged to weave geopolitical scenarios directly into stress testing frameworks, a discipline the industry has historically underweighted and may no longer be able to ignore.
On the diplomatic front, President Trump said Friday he is not satisfied with Iran's latest negotiating proposal, rejecting it almost immediately after Tehran handed the document to Pakistani mediators. The president's language was blunt, leaving the status of talks uncertain and keeping geopolitical risk premiums firmly in the market's calculus heading into the weekend.
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