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Wall Street wasn't worried about an AI bubble on Thursday, with Cisco rallying on strong demand and Cerebras soaring in its market debut.

The Magnificent 7 and other mega-cap stocks are making the Middle East seem like a geopolitical and macroeconomic backwater.

The shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz is showing up on these shores in the form of the hottest CPI inflation print in three years.

Peace in the Middle East appears to be a distant prospect, but investors, traders and speculators are focusing on other fundamental factors.

The April jobs report suggests that U.S. employers remain resilient even with no real end to the war in the Middle East in sight.

The situation at the Strait of Hormuz is changing from day to day, even hour to hour and minute to minute.

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Intel was one of the biggest gainers on Wall Street Tuesday on reports the chipmaker could become the next Apple supplier.

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Apple rounded out a big week of mega-cap earnings on a high note, sending two of the three main equity indexes to new highs on Friday.

The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed out April at new record highs on strong earnings from Google parent Alphabet and economic bellwether Caterpillar.

Earnings are still solid, crude oil is still rising, and Jerome Powell is still a member of the Federal Reserve Board until further notice.

With the Magnificent 7 all over the earnings calendar this week, a privately held company has a lot of publicly traded stocks under the microscope.

Two of the three main U.S. equity indexes hit new all-time highs at the start of a big week for earnings and interest rates.

It's going to take more than exchanges of social media posts to establish a lasting peace in a historically volatile part of the world.