🚨 5 market stories to watch today
₿ Crypto: BTC is holding around $63K. The bigger macro risk now is oil: Brent near $87–88 could revive inflation concerns and complicate expectations for easier Fed policy.
📈 Stocks: US markets remain near highs as investors increasingly bet on a softer Fed. The key question is whether weaker consumer data means a soft landing — or the beginning of a deeper slowdown.
🤖 #NVIDIA : the company is reportedly considering investing up to $3B in SB Energy, part of the infrastructure buildout supporting OpenAI. NVIDIA is evolving from a chip supplier into a major player financing the AI ecosystem itself.
🇨🇳 China: bank lending contracted by a record 340B yuan in July, while household loans fell around 460B yuan. Weak credit demand remains one of the clearest signals that China’s domestic economy is struggling.
⚡ AI infrastructure: the opportunity is moving beyond models.
Power → data centers → networking → GPUs → inference.

🎯 Watch oil in the short term and AI infrastructure in the long term. One could determine the next macro move; the other could define the next investment cycle.

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