WS #13492
No material new developments in the last 30 minutes. The dominant themes from the previous synthesis—earnings dump, Fed hawkish tilt, and Alphabet AI leadership shakeup—remain unchanged with no new data points or counter-signals. No de-escalation or non-dominant-narrative developments have emerged to warrant updating the key developments list.
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Key developments
- Fed's Cook signals hawkish tilt, ready to raise rates if disinflation stalls
- GOOGL falls to correction territory amid AI researcher exodus
- SanDisk beats Q4, expands buyback by $14B
- Western Digital beats but shares fall on high expectations
- AppLovin craters 20% on revenue miss despite EPS beat
- MercadoLibre beats with 50% revenue growth
- Block beats Q2 on robust gross payment volume growth
- Motorola Solutions raises FY2026 guidance