Michael Jensen @GenesisGains: "Hello everyone Markets are starting..."

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Hello everyone Markets are starting to run into a problem they can no longer ignore: rising bond yields. For months, investors focused almost entirely on AI momentum and mega-cap tech. But the real story now may be the cost of money itself. U.S. Treasury yields continue climbing, and that matters more for the broader market than even earnings from $NVDA (NVIDIA Corporation) which we will get later today. Higher yields mean more expensive credit, weaker housing demand, slower consumer activity, and increasing pressure on governments already drowning in debt. The U.S. 10-year Treasury is again pushing toward levels that historically begin tightening financial conditions across the economy. Yet stocks are not breaking down — at least not yet. The reason is simple: the economic pain has not fully arrived. Businesses and consumers are still living off earlier momentum, inventory buffers, and liquidity built during the last phase of the rally. But if energy pressures remain elevated into Q3, inflation could reaccelerate while growth simultaneously slows. That is not a comfortable setup for markets. Under the surface, warning signs are already appearing: • Real retail sales in the U.S. are barely growing • Housing demand is weakening under high mortgage rates • Producer costs continue climbing • Energy and transportation prices remain a problem • Inflation expectations are moving higher again Meanwhile, the AI trade has become extremely crowded. Institutional investors are heavily concentrated in semiconductors and large tech names, while cash positions have fallen sharply. The rally increasingly depends on a very small group of companies continuing to deliver perfection. That works — until it doesn’t. What makes this environment tricky is that the market is caught between two competing forces: AI optimism and liquidity on one side… rising yields, sticky inflation, and slowing real-world demand on the other. And historically, the bond market tends to win that fight eventually. Central banks are also becoming less confident about rate cuts. Only weeks ago, markets expected aggressive easing. Now investors are starting to consider the possibility that rates stay elevated far longer than hoped. That changes how everything gets valued. The $SPX500 still trades at historically expensive levels, while much of the market outside mega-cap tech is no longer showing strong margin expansion. In many ways, this rally is becoming narrower even as the headlines remain optimistic. The rally has stalled, but it has not broken. For now, markets are still betting that AI growth can outrun rising economic pressure. The bond market seems far less convinced. $NSDQ100 $TSLA (Tesla Motors, Inc.) $AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc)

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