Hours after July CPI slowed to 3.4%, the government sold $42 billion of ten-year notes at the highest auction yield since 2007, then reported a record $432 billion July deficit.
July CPI rose 0.1% and the annual rate slowed to 3.4%. Real average hourly earnings still fell 0.1% for the month and 0.2% over the year.
Intel expanded a $15 billion stock sale to $20 billion, pricing 210.5 million new shares at $95. The AI buildout now has a dilution ledger.
The United States lost 23,000 payroll jobs in July while the S&P 500 closed at an all-time high. Two ledgers delivered opposite orders.
Brent crude climbed to $82.49 while the 10-year Treasury yield reached 4.67%. One supply shock is now moving both operating costs and the price of capital.
SpaceX produced $2.561 billion of AI revenue in the second quarter, then spent $15.828 billion building the machinery behind it. Nasdaq-100 investors now carry the gap.
Washington will borrow $739 billion this quarter, beginning with a $125 billion three-auction relay that tests how much yield private buyers demand.
Twenty-five states challenged a 10% to 12.5% tariff network covering 60 economies, while fresh federal data showed $309.0 billion of goods entering the United States in June.
WTI dropped to $80.79 after planned U.S. strikes were halted, while Iran limited talks to a temporary Hormuz passage and U.S. oil buffers lost nearly 11 million barrels in one week.
AWS grew 37% to $42.2 billion while Amazon’s trailing free cash flow swung to negative $7.6 billion. The stock surged anyway, exposing how retirement portfolios now depend on the AI spending machine.
The Fed stood still, but the 30-year Treasury hit a 19-year high and mortgage rates climbed toward 6.8%. The real tightening is happening outside Washington.
Oil is feeding inflation again just as mortgage rates return to a one-year high. The Fed can fight one side of the squeeze - but not without making the other worse.
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