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Welcome to Markets Desk, here's what's moving the needle right now.
Cerebras Systems made a stunning debut on Wall Street, with shares surging sixty-eight percent in what stands as the largest IPO of two thousand twenty-six so far. The artificial intelligence chipmaker rode a wave of investor appetite for AI infrastructure plays, signaling that the market's hunger for picks-and-shovels AI names remains very much intact.
Turning to the Andrew Left securities fraud trial in Los Angeles, testimony took a human turn this week as a retired firefighter told the court he lost the bulk of his one hundred ten thousand dollar retirement savings after acting on Left's public commentary about specific stocks. Left's defense maintains he was simply sharing his honest opinions, but prosecutors argue he was deliberately moving markets for personal gain — a distinction that will ultimately rest with the jury.
And in commodities, cotton futures fell sharply Thursday, off as much as two hundred eighty-seven points in the front months, as traders digested a stronger dollar and parsed early signals from the Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing. With crude oil climbing to one hundred two dollars a barrel, the commodity complex is sending mixed messages, and traders are watching the diplomatic fallout from Beijing closely for any clarity on trade flow implications.
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