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Welcome to Markets Desk, your midday read on what's moving and why.
Equities are pushing higher to close the week, with the S&P five hundred up nearly two thirds of a percent and the Nasdaq one hundred leading the charge at over one point three percent. Solid tech earnings and a resilient labor market are doing the heavy lifting, giving bulls enough cover to extend the rally into the weekend.
Shifting to trade policy, federal judges have struck down the administration's latest Section one twenty two tariffs, following the Supreme Court's earlier invalidation of the IEEPA tariff framework. That's two legal walls now standing between the White House and its broader tariff agenda, and markets will be watching closely for any executive response that could reopen the uncertainty.
And on the macro horizon, Ray Dalio is widening his warning beyond America's debt burden, telling the New York Times the country is entering a period of what he calls great turbulence — structural forces so severe, he argues, they will fundamentally reshape the nation's economic and political landscape. Dalio has been early on these calls before, and institutional money tends to listen.
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