APAC stocks were ultimately higher heading into month-end but with price action choppy following the weak handover from the US, where sentiment was clouded by tech weakness, while participants also digested the recent US-Iran talks in Geneva - which ended in no deal.

Pretty much everyone at CNN is about to lose their jobs.

...Huang & Hegseth dominated markets today...

The researchers found six distinct clusters pushing pro-CCP narratives.

"It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this..."

"The most remarkable equity market in 2026 has been South Korea’s KOSPI, which is up +49.7% YTD as of this morning—a move that would normally take years or even decades, not weeks"

NVDA earnings beat still underwhelms investors; Omani, Iranian, and US officials speak well of nuclear talks, set to continue next week; Initial claims tick higher, continued claims drop; Trump-Xi summit preparations reportedly behind schedule; US 7yr note auction shows improvement from 2- and 5yr auctions; Credit concerns renew amid bank exposure to UK Lender MFS collapse.

“This is a war of global business models.”

...on track for one of the biggest days of retail buying of single stocks in months

Overall, this was a solid, if hardly, stellar auction, with average foreign demand and mediocre metrics, which in itself is rather surprising since the money from the equity selling has to be going somewhere and bonds should be seeing more demand, if only in theory. 

"Bottom line: There were significant cancellations in select airports..." 

Not winning...

"Tons of questions on the overnight fade from up 4% to down 5% -  did feel like a fair bit of investor awareness that it has been nearly ~2yrs since a “wow” top of t+1 reaction at Nvidia

...everything you wanted to know about the current market situation, but were afraid to ask...

"PayPal isn't currently in talks to sell itself — to Stripe or anyone..." 

Investment flows suggest the market isn’t comfortable with the notion that inflation is yesterday’s problem...

US success would entrench Trumpism and demolish planned global alternatives; yet failure would do nothing to return ‘rules-based order’ or a benign free-trade backdrop for under-armed and over-dependent ‘middle powers’. 

There’s a contradiction at the heart of markets, as flows anticipate higher inflation yet the stocks rallying the most on AI are also those that face the greatest risk from rising prices...