
AAII Sentiment Survey: Pessimism Sinks
Bullish sentiment increased 6.8 percentage points to 39.7%. Neutral sentiment increased 0.1 percentage points to 22.7%.
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Bullish sentiment increased 6.8 percentage points to 39.7%. Neutral sentiment increased 0.1 percentage points to 22.7%.

Market sentiment has shifted rapidly from greed to fear, driving a sharp rotation out of AI and semiconductor stocks despite strong fundamentals. Current headwinds include sticky inflation, hawkish Fed signals, geopolitical tensions, seasonal September weakness, and midterm elections, all fueling risk-off behavior.

The offering is part of a trend that pairs wearable technology with ‘preventative healthcare'

Big Tech—Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet—has committed trillions to AI, with off-balance-sheet obligations far exceeding disclosed CapEx. Alphabet faces $798B in future investment commitments, and Meta faces $696B (10x LTM net income), highlighting significant financial risk if AI underperforms.

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller sparked a crypto rally Thursday with his interest rate game plan.

The Dow added more than 600 points after Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said he could support holding rates steady.

New recommendations include making an options bet that the stocks of GE HealthCare and Medtronic will fall, because there were too many bets already made that the stock would rise.

Over the next couple of weeks, the stock market will face some of the stiffest seasonal headwinds of the entire year. I'm referring to the period between the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The stock market's average return during this nine-day period is even worse than it is for September as a whole, and that's saying something, since September itself is far and away the worst month of the year for average stock-market return.

U.S. stocks rose after comments from a Federal Reserve official took the sting out of rising oil prices by suppressing Treasury yields.

Plus, Treasury yields fell, and Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face

The robotics sector, including ETFs like BOTZ, ROBO, and ARKQ, offers early-stage growth potential but requires investor patience and measured position sizing. Industrial robotics, with measurable demand and recurring revenue models (e.g.

Nonfarm payrolls are projected to increase by 53,000 in August, a step up after the prior two months showed a net loss of 3,000. The labor market has been in a low-hire low-fire environment and has been impacted by geopolitical uncertainty, AI investment and other factors.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins ‘The Claman Countdown' to discuss the rollout of its GPT-6 Astra model. #foxbusiness #clamancountdown 0:00 — OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Extra & Astra Enterprise 1:45 — Altman Shows Astra's Autonomous AI Capabilities 5:23 — OpenAI Battles Anthropic and Open-Source AI 8:39 — Altman Defends OpenAI's Massive AI Spending 10:11 — Will AI Strengthen or Weaken Human Thinking?

Invesco Agriculture Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF remains a Buy, targeting a potential test of the 2024 record high of $40.42. PDBA benefits from bullish drivers: Super El Niño, persistent inflation, and geopolitical disruptions, all supporting higher agricultural commodity prices. The ETF offers diversified exposure across grains, oilseeds, soft commodities, and animal proteins, with a 2.91% yield and no K-1 tax form.

The Trump administration pressured U.S. space companies not to attend a high-profile space summit in Paris organized by French President Emmanuel Macron, triggering a last-minute reshuffle and the cancellation of some announcements, according to people familiar with the matter on Thursday.