
π THE MARKET FOUND ITS SMILE. CREDIT STILL WANTS COLLATERAL.
Wednesday gave us the perfect snapshot of this market.
π S&P 500: +0.6%
π» Nasdaq: +1.1%
π¬ Fear and Greed: still just 31
π 30 year mortgage: roughly 7.4%
π’ Brent crude: roughly $109
π€ Meta Q3 capital expenditures: $34.9 BILLION
And then there is CoreWeave.
Its June bonds were issued around a 9.675% yield. They recently traded around 15%.
That does not mean AI demand disappeared.
It means credit investors are separating AI demand from AI financing risk.
Meanwhile:
π Mortgage applications fell another 5.3%.
π Pending home sales fell 7.3% to a record low index reading.
π Dream Finders just closedβ¦
The skinny
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