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đ§¨âBonds Awayâ Empties The Clip On Investors As Market…
May 19, 2026
đ§¨âBonds Awayâ Empties The Clip On Investors As Market Clinches 3rd Straight LâŚ
“Turns out the bombs were the safe part.” – the S&P 500, Tuesday
Three sessions in a row now, the stock market has walked in, sat down, and gotten its teeth kicked in by a 30-year government bond. The S&P 500 closed Tuesday down 0.67% at 7,353.61, its third straight losing session, while the Nasdaq slid 0.84% to 25,870.71 and the Dow coughed up 322 points (0.65%) to land at 49,375.46. There was no tariff headline and no earnings blowup to pin it on. Just yields, baby.
In short, the damage came from one number. The 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.198% on Tuesday, its highest in nearly 19 years (last time it was up here, Zuck was still face-mashing people). The 10-year yield (the one that actually touches your life, setting your mortgage, your car loan, and the credit-card APR you’ve been pretending not to look at) climbed 6 basis points to 4.687%, its highest since January 2025. Translation: When borrowing gets more expensive everywhere at once, stocks are the first thing people sell to raise cash.
Why now tho? Well, last week served up a run of reports showing inflation revving back up, with the war in Iran goosing oil prices and dragging the whole cost picture along for the ride. Higher mortgage and credit-card rates put a governor on consumer spending. They also slow long-term growth and, less comfortably, shine a magnifying glass on the sky-high valuations some chip stocks have been wearing like body armor (spoiler: the yields found a glory hole gap in it).
Which kinda sucks considering for the past year, this bull market has shrugged off basically everything, a shooting war included. Rising yields are the one threat it can’t shrug, because a 5.2% long bond doesn’t care about your feelings. Itâs just math, and math has never once been talked out of anything. Friendly reminder: when the risk-free rate climbs, every risky asset on the board has to re-audition for its valuation.
Meanwhile, in stonk land, the chip aisle spent Tuesday getting pistol whipped. Nvidia reports fiscal first-quarter earnings after Wednesday’s bell and closed down nearly 1%, clawing back most of an uglier intraday slide. “Rising yields could expose sky-high chip valuations” is not the sentence you want trending the night before you report. The rest of the group faceplanted as Qualcomm shed more than 4% and Broadcom gave up 2%. That said, Micron did play contrarian, ripping more than 4% intraday toward its first up-day after a three-session skid before settling roughly flat, with memory peer Sandisk tagging along nearly 3% higher.
Over in the parking lot of the greatest business opportunity of all time, Home Depot posted better-than-expected first-quarter earnings. Morgan Stanley’s Simeon Gutman, who rates it overweight, likes the stock setup precisely because nobody is pricing in a housing recovery, which makes any “glimmer of inflection” in home improvement free upside. Over at Costco, Oppenheimer’s Rupesh Parikh reiterated his top-pick ranking and raised his price target to $1,160 from $1,100, about 8% above Monday’s close.
That said, he does admit the stock isn’t cheap anymore and that fuel margins could nick EPS, then argue for outperformance anyway. To be fair, betting against a company that has weaponized a $1.50 hot dog (unchanged in price since the Reagan administration) has historically been a great way to lose money.
Aaaaaand thatâs about it for Tuesday, friends. In the end, the boring trade just got teeth. A 5.2% long bond means Uncle Sam will pay you a fat, guaranteed coupon to sit on your hands and do absolutely nothing (sup, my welfare peeps), and every stonk in your account now has to beat that before it’s even worth the screenshot. Your move diamond hands. Until next timeâŚ
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Blackstone Deepens âShadow Governmentâ Status With $5B Google AI Infrastructure Alliance
âBut now Iâm panicking. Iâm scared Iâm going to lose my job.â -Jensen Huang, probably
At this point, the AI boom is starting to resemble the worldâs most expensive game of Monopoly. Except instead of buying Boardwalk (or the railroads), everyoneâs fighting over nuclear power, data centers, and YUGE warehouses full of chips conveniently placed near the poorest towns in America (donât hate the player).
In news that should shock absolutely no one, my former landlord (read: Blackstone) and Google have announced theyâre launching a brand-new AI cloud infrastructure company. (I guess outbidding single mothers of 3 onâŚ
Home Depot Defies âDoomed Consumerâ Narrative as Homeowners Continue Raw-Dogging Inflation
Bah gawd, thatâs Home Depotâs musicâŚ
If thereâs any takeaway Iâve gotten from the âorange apronsâ earnings report⌠itâs that the American homeowner might be the most underrated species in the global economy.
Every month thereâs a new report explaining why consumers are supposedly cooked. Gas prices can double. Consumer confidence can hit levels not seen since the Lehman Bros walked out of the office with cardboard boxes in hand.
And yet somehow, based on the numbers⌠folks are still wandering the aisles of Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon and spending moneyâŚ
â Market Gossip
> Mortgage rates surge to highest level since July (CNBC): What a joke⌠(Spoiler: Itâs me, Iâm the joke for buying my first house at the worst f*cking time)
> Blue Owl Co-Founder Doug Ostrover Is Selling His NFL Commanders Stake (Bloomberg): After last season, I can see why⌠LOL
> How Zyn Became All the Rage Inside Trump WorldâIncluding With RFK Jr. (WSJ): Drain the swamp, pack the pouch, amirite?
> Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader (CNBC): New lab who dis?
T-1 Day Until Zuck Drops The Hammer On Employees ($145B and Counting)
Zuckerburg: âIâm not a lizard, Iâm not an alien, I have a heartâŚâ
Also, Zuck: does this
Hereâs a fun fact for you: For the past month, Meta employees have spent most of their time replying to their executives’ posts with pictures of elephants. Not as a metaphor.. But actual elephant photos, stacked under every upbeat Workplace update, a not-so-gentle hint that leadership might want to mention the layoffs everyone has seen coming since April. On Wednesday, Zuckbot finally addresses the elephant… by putting 10% of the company on food stamps (read: cutting).
The headline number, as we all know, is roughly 8,000 people, per a memo from Chief People Officer Janelle Gale (a job title pulling heroic overtime this week). That is only the part you can see. Meta is also shuffling 7,000 employees onto new AI “pods” and closing 6,000 roles it had already promised to hire for. Stack it together and the restructuring raw dogs about 20% of the workforce.
For context, headcounts sat nearâŚ
Open and Shut: Elon Spent Three Weeks Suing OpenAI and Lost to a Calendar (Sucks to Suck)
“We tried that. Twice.” – the Winklevoss twins, watching Elon file the appeal
Elon Musk has everything under the sun. He has the rockets, the electric cars, a $1.7-trillion IPO loading in the chamber, and a hotly contested No. 1 spot on the Diablo IV hardcore ladder. What he no longer has, as of Monday, is a live lawsuit against OpenAI.
In short, a nine-person jury in Oakland needed less than two hours to bury the Father of 14âs case against the company and its CEO, Slippery Sam. Oh so, Scam Altman is innocent? Well not exactly. See, the jury never actually ruled on whether OpenAI “stole a charity,” which was the entire emotional core of Elon’s case. They ruled that he asked too late. Musk helped launch OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015, walked off the board in 2018, and didn’t file suit until 2024 (a six-year delay he now considers extremely urgent). That timeline sailed clean past the three-year statute of limitations.
Translation: Musk didnâg lose the argument. Itâs valid. He just lost on the calendar. Not that he was aiming small. Elon’s team wanted up to $180 billion in “ill-gotten gains” clawed back, wanted Altman and president Greg Brockman stripped from leadership, and wanted OpenAI’s entire for-profit restructuring unwound. He testified he’d handed the outfit roughlyâŚ
âWTFâ Meme of the Day
The European mind could never comprehendâŚ
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