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The bond market ran the day. The 30-year Treasury yield pushed to 5.33 percent, its highest in 19 years, as the expired US-Iran interim deal kept Brent crude above 90 dollars and stoked fresh inflation worry. Stocks leaked lower into that, with the Nasdaq off 1.3 percent behind a 5.5 percent drop in semiconductors as investors again questioned the circular money flowing through the AI buildout. Home Depot was the bright spot, beating on the quarter and holding its full-year outlook. In AI, Stripe closed a deal to buy model-router OpenRouter for more than 7 billion dollars, and an AI store manager in San Francisco recommended firing its first human. Restaurants got the Technomic Top 500 verdict that menu inflation outran sales growth for a second straight year. The Red Sox hung 11 on Arizona with all nine starters driving in a run, and in New Hampshire, Fish and Game will bill four unprepared hikers for an overnight rescue off Franconia Ridge.
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