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The Mecca Defense Pact just put two more flags on the Saudi firing chart. The consensus panic says this widens the war within weeks. The signal says the Houthis will talk big, hit Saudi and the sea, and leave Pakistan and Turkey’s hard targets alone for this 60 day window.
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All forecastsNvidia at nearly $6 trillion is priced like the central bank of artificial intelligence. The bet now is simple: does earnings reality wreck the party with a 25% drawdown, or do AI infrastructure dreams stay loud enough to drown out ROI questions a little longer?
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Visa crackdowns to be handled by same AI that priced the medals.
