
A massive surge in Treasury bond yields, which lifted 10-year notes to the highest since 2007, paired with a worrying summer rally in global crude prices that has oil trading firmly north of $100 a barrel, leaned heavily on stocks but didn’t tip them over. A Federal Reserve interest-rate hike, coupled with hawkish language and quickening inflation forecasts, also came and went, with stocks posting their strongest gains in six weeks and an index of the Magnificent Seven tech giants coming within half a point of the all-time high it reached in late May. Tech stocks, in fact, have largely weathered a series of “end of days” headlines from the AI space, with an index of semiconductor stocks falling around 3.3% over the past month and those in the information technology edging just 1.2% lower despite the torrent of stories tied to apocalyptic AI risks.



















