30-year Treasury yields broke above 5.5% today. That is the dominant macro story of the session. Rising long-end yields are pressuring valuations across growth and rate-sensitive sectors. Regional bank Park National Corporation felt it acutely. Its put/call ratio exploded to 1.17 — a 4.1 standard deviation spike from its 20-day average of just 0.16. That is the highest reading in 52 weeks. Traders are loading up on downside protection at a pace rarely seen in small-cap banking.
NVIDIA continues to dominate infrastructure narratives. SemiAnalysis reported today that GPU demand is so extreme, even subpar cloud infrastructure is selling out. Akamai jumped after announcing a deal with Anthropic, adding it to the growing list of AI content-delivery plays. CoreWeave also featured in coverage as hyperscaler demand keeps building.
Bank of America raised its AMD price target by $100 to $720 today, keeping its Buy rating. AMD's market cap now exceeds $1 trillion. Despite that bullish call, options bears are active — AMD saw heavy negative flow over the past week alongside and NVIDIA. Meta itself got a fresh $820 target from Deutsche Bank. Its RSI sits at a stretched 80.5.
Twilio moved the other way. HSBC downgraded the stock to Reduce, sending shares lower on the day.
UK construction group Kier reported this morning in London. Eyes now turn to Tuesday's cruise read from Carnival and Wednesday's blockbuster Micron print — the week's most anticipated earnings event. Micron's results will serve as a real-time stress test for memory chip demand in the AI build-out.
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