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Nvidia has become the company the whole stock market checks its pulse against. This quarter, it beat every published forecast, then went a step further: for the first time, it gave investors a view beyond the next quarter and into the year after next. The message was clear, the story remains intact, and the headlines practically wrote themselves.

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Global equities edged modestly higher over the past week, as a blowout Nvidia earnings beat and a sharp pullback in oil prices lifted risk appetite, only for a hawkish Jackson Hole debut from Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh to reverse much of the optimism by Friday. This report examines the drivers behind the week's gains and reversals across the US, Europe, and emerging markets, including the rotation out of health care and small caps, the AI-driven strength in software and cybersecurity, and the easing of the oil risk premium following new US sanctions on Iran.

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