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Take: The Warsh Fed's hawkish hold was the session's story: rates stayed at 3.50-3.75% for the sixth time, but three policymakers (Hammack, Kashkari, Logan) voted to hike, which bond markets read as the Fed falling behind on inflation and sent the Dow down 1,153 points, its worst session since April 2025. The industrial complex took a second punch as Vertiv (-17%) and Lennox International (-21%) posted earnings misses, suggesting the AI power-infrastructure and HVAC buildout cycle is softening, pulling Caterpillar, Eaton, Parker Hannifin, and a dozen other industrials down in sympathy.
No clean sector thread. Tesla sitting 0.3% above its annual low is the name to watch.
The Federal Reserve held rates at 3.50-3.75% for the sixth consecutive meeting, but Hammack (Cleveland), Kashkari (Minneapolis), and Logan (Dallas) all voted to hike. Bond markets treated this as the Fed falling behind on inflation, dumping long-dated Treasuries and pushing the 30-year yield to 5.23%, a 19-year high. The Dow fell 1,153 points (-2.2%), the S&P 500 lost 1.52%, and the Nasdaq dropped 1.74%.
Microsoft beat estimates with $90B in quarterly revenue (+18%) and Azure growing 40% year-over-year (now above $100B annually). The stock fell -0.7% regardless, bar too high. The notable disclosure inside the report: a $3.2B mark-up on the Anthropic investment vs. a $600M writedown on OpenAI in the same quarter.
Both restaurant chains reported and lifted guidance. Starbucks raised its annual earnings target citing a recovering business; Chipotle raised its same-store sales forecast even while acknowledging a cyclospora scare hit late-quarter volumes.
A 529-error overload took claude.ai, the API, and Claude Code offline from approximately 7:49 PM UTC until 10:36 PM UTC. Anthropic confirmed it had identified the cause but has not disclosed it publicly.
More than 1,100 employees from both labs and other major AI firms signed "Pacing the Frontier," asking Washington to develop governance infrastructure for a verifiable international slowdown mechanism, not a pause now but the tools to execute one if recursive self-improvement outpaces human oversight. The timing targets the Trump administration's August 1 frontier AI framework deadline.
Anthropic did not sign Nvidia's open letter opposing AI open-source restrictions, which sparked industry criticism; Dario published a statement saying "we have never advocated for a ban" on open-weights but wants safety testing for all sufficiently capable models (open and closed) and chip export controls for authoritarian regimes. The non-signature reflected a narrower policy disagreement, not support for banning open source.
Also today: Microsoft Q4 disclosed a $3.2B gain on its Anthropic investment vs. a $600M writedown on OpenAI (TechCrunch).
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