WW3?

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Indeed, everybody is bracing for what could happen next. The stock market plunged yesterday with haven assets jumping, such as bonds, oil, gold and the US dollar. It remains too early to tell if the conflict will grow severe enough to impact the global’s economy. The next few days will be critical to evaluate the severity of the situation. - “Markets are in wait and see mode,” said Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB. “The next 24 hours will be critical to see how far this situation escalates and whether the rush to safe havens was justified.” Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB (Photo: XTB) If the conflict cools down, stocks might snap back to their previous levels. The US ISM price index (a manufacturing gauge) fell by the most since May 2023. Job openings increased in August. The 10-year Treasury yields were slightly lower after the report. But Wall Street places more weight to Friday’s monthly jobs report, so yesterday’s job openings data may not mean much. After all, the risk of the Middle East war is much higher than yesterday’s jobs data. - “Today’s reports should weigh down the 10-year yield, dollar, and employment service stocks, though the payroll release is more influential,” according to Evercore ISI’s Stan Shipley. “However, geopolitical stories out of the Mideast are more important for Treasury markets.” And of course, we are in midst of a longshoremen’s strike. Several major US container ports have been shut down. The longer the strike remains, the larger economic losses will be. JPMorgan Chase estimates up to $4.5 billion losses a day if the strike continues. Michael Kantrowitz, chief investment strategist at Piper Sandler & Co., is worried that stocks are priced in for “an immaculate economic outlook.” However, risks have surged in the last few weeks. How will stocks react? - “The issue I see for any meaningful upside move for equities here is that there is essentially no risk priced into equities,” he said. “If rockets fly, markets will react even more.” Michael Kantrowitz, chief investment strategist at Piper Sandler & Co. (Photo: CNBC) Lastly, CEO BlackRock Larry Fink blasted Wall Street traders for anticipating an aggressive rate-cutting cycle. He doubted the Fed will cut rates this much. In money markets, swaps trader are wagering on a one-in-three chance the Fed will deliver another half-point cut in November, but that may not pan out as expected, Larry Fink warned. - “The amount of easing that’s in the forward curve is crazy,” said Fink. “There’s room for easing more, but not as much as the forward curve would indicate.” Besides geopolticial risks, Wall Street is watching for this Friday’s nonfarm payrolls data to gauge the health of the labor market. Everybody on Wall Street can feel it — volatility is lurking in the corner. Will it be unleashed or not? The #1 AI + Robotics Stock We Love Right Now Today’s Stock Pick: Symbotic (SYM) First of all, Symbotic is a speculative play on the AI Age. The company makes a bold bet on developing a fully autonomous, end-to-end warehouse system architecture. Basically, it wants AI and robots to operate the warehouse with minimal human intervention. Here’s a preview of how it works — several robotics arms will take inbound pallets at a distribution center. The next challenge is to separate them into individual items and place on mobile robots (named SymBots) to take them to another storage location at the distribution center. Once it is ready to be shipped, the SymbBots grab the item and carry it to the set of robotics arms that would place it in an outbound pallet to be delivered out. And of course, everything is run by AI. Artificial intelligence will command robots to determine which activity they should be doing at a given moment. Symbotic has granted over 400 patents for its AI-powered system. The whole system is run by an AI software “brain” that informs where packages are stored, when they are fetched, and how pallets are constructed and deconstructed. (Source: Symbotic) Sure enough, Walmart already signed a deal with Symbotic to automate a few distribution centers. Result? These centers achieved industry-best stock-keeping unit (SKU) counts. It was a huge testament to Symbotic’s technology. Walmart ended up expanding the partnership to include all of its regional distribution centers in the country. C&S Wholesale Grocers (the largest U.S. wholesale grocery distributor) and Albertsons are also using Symbotic’s technology. They also reported phenomenal wholesale performance metrics with these robots. As a result, Symbotic is sitting on a huge order backlog of over $23 billion! It is only the beginning, though. There are plenty of verticals that Symbotic hasn’t entered yet — 3PL, apparel, CPH, home improvement, auto parts, and more. (Source: Symbotic) All in all, Symbotic anticipates nearly $400 billion total addressable market in North America and Europe and other verticals. In short, the opportunity is immense for Symbotic. (Source: Symbotic) Bottom line: There is a lot of hype surrounding AI and robotics. Symbotic is one of the few companies that is actually delivering results for its clients. With its massive backlog orders, this is the company to watch out for the next decade. [EARN WHILE YOU LEARN! JOIN OUR FREE LIVE TRADING SESSION!](       © All Rights Reserved, Trade Alliance [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Preferences](