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Wall Street just delivered one of the clearest examples yet of the market’s bad-news-is-good-news dynamic.

The U.S. economy unexpectedly lost jobs in July, prior payroll gains were revised sharply lower, and signs of labor-market deterioration are becoming harder to dismiss. Yet instead of selling off, stocks surged—with the S&P 500 closing at a record and the Nasdaq leading the move higher.

Why? Weak employment data immediately changed the Fed calculus. Treasury yields fell as traders backed away from expectations for another near-term rate hike, giving technology and other rate-sensitive assets another powerful tailwind.

In this episode of Market Pulse, we break down the growing disconnect between economic fundamentals and asset prices, what the jobs report is really signaling beneath the headline unemployment rate, the repricing across the Treasury market, and why oil, inflation, and the Iran backdrop could still disrupt the market’s increasingly dovish narrative.

The economy is weakening. Stocks are celebrating. The question is how long that divergence can last.

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