The Dow rose while the S&P fell and the Nasdaq dropped ~1.3%. Caterpillar (CAT) alone accounted for most of the Dow's gain, rising nearly 4%. Big Tech took the hit. Alphabet (GOOGL) dropped 6%. Amazon (AMZN) fell. Meta (META) and Microsoft (MSFT) declined.

Treasury authorized Iranian oil sales under a temporary 60-day license after productive talks in Switzerland over the weekend. WTI fell to near $74. VP Vance confirmed Iran invited nuclear inspectors back in, which is the most concrete concession since the war began.

Bank of America now expects three rate hikes this year. That is the call that moved everything else today.

Three hikes is still an outlier view but the specific probability of three or more hikes moved from 3% to 19% in one week. The direction of travel is what matters. Rate-sensitive names stay under pressure. Caterpillar rising while Alphabet falls is the rotation in its clearest form yet.

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Bank of America now expects the Fed to raise rates by 25 basis points in September, October, and December. Deutsche Bank is slightly less aggressive but still sees two hikes before year end. Both revised after last Wednesday's hawkish Warsh meeting.

Before last week, nobody was pricing any hikes in 2026. Now only 11% of investors expect the Fed to stay on hold all year, down from 43% a week ago. That is one of the fastest sentiment shifts on Fed expectations in recent memory.

The mechanism is straightforward. Warsh removed the easing bias, shrunk the Fed statement to 132 words, and refused to submit his own dot. Nine other officials dotted a hike. The market heard it clearly. Core PCE lands Thursday and is expected to accelerate. If it does, three hikes goes from outlier to consensus by end of the week.

The 10-year yield climbed back toward 4.51% today. The 2-year hit its highest since February. Both moving higher while oil is falling tells you the market is now pricing a structural inflation problem, not just an energy one.

Three hikes reprices everything built on low rate assumptions. Banks benefit. Long-duration tech gets hit. Reduce software names trading on future earnings. Add well-capitalized financials that widen margins when rates rise.

Alphabet (GOOGL) dropped 6%, its worst day in over a year, after news broke that two key AI researchers were leaving the company. 

At a $2.5 trillion market cap, a 6% drop erases roughly $150 billion in value. The scale of that reaction tells you exactly how much of Alphabet's valuation is tied to its perceived AI talent advantage. The moment that advantage looks at risk, even marginally, the market prices it immediately and aggressively.

This is the new AI risk premium. It is not about revenue today. It is about who is in the building tomorrow. Microsoft (MSFT) separately fell after CEO Satya Nadella warned about AI concentration risk, saying companies cannot claim all white-collar jobs are gone while building data centers with all available power. That statement landed poorly into a market already selling AI premium names.

Meanwhile Chevron (CVX) signed a 20-year agreement to supply natural gas to Microsoft's new data center in West Texas. Caterpillar will supply turbines. GE Vernova provides electricity. That deal does not close for two years but it confirms the physical AI infrastructure build is locking in decade-long contracts while the software layer absorbs the volatility.

Own the physical infrastructure of AI. Chevron, Caterpillar, GE Vernova are locking in 20-year contracts. Alphabet and Microsoft are pricing talent risk daily. The physical layer has less volatility for the same macro theme.

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SpaceX (SPCX) fell 10%. The stock is now over 15% below its record close of $201 but still 23% above its $135 IPO price. Three straight down sessions after the most retail-concentrated IPO debut in market history is mechanics, not fundamentals.

The same day, SpaceX announced its first-ever bond offering, expected to raise at least $20 billion. The proceeds pay back a bridge loan taken earlier in the year. S&P rates SpaceX investment grade. Moody's does too. The AI business segment was flagged as the riskiest, with negative free cash flow expected through 2029.

SpaceX raised $85.7 billion in equity. Now it is raising $20 billion in debt. The company is spending faster than it is earning and the capital markets are funding the gap on both ends simultaneously. That is not unusual for infrastructure companies. But it reframes SpaceX from a cash-generative rocket business to a capital-intensive AI infrastructure buildout, which deserves a different kind of scrutiny than the IPO pop narrative allowed for.

SpaceX holding above $165, where it opened on debut day, is the floor that matters. Below that, the retail buying that drove the first three sessions unwinds further. The bond deal confirms the equity raise was not enough. Know what you own at this price.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned, with Andy Burnham expected to succeed him. Sterling dipped slightly. Gilts were largely unchanged, suggesting the market had already priced the exit. Burnham has distanced himself from previous fiscally loose statements, which limited the damage.

AbbVie (ABBV) agreed to buy Apogee Therapeutics (APGE) for $10.9 billion. Apogee surged nearly 50%. AbbVie rose. The deal expands AbbVie's immunology pipeline into atopic dermatitis and asthma. Biotech was the best-performing sector today, up over 3%. When the market sells AI and buys biotech in the same session, the rotation has gotten very specific.

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The Iran deal is moving forward in 60-day increments now. Oil is falling. But the rate story is moving independently of oil, which is the part the market underpriced last week. Thursday's core PCE print is the next inflation test. If it accelerates as expected, the three-hike call becomes consensus before the week ends.