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ONE BIG THINGHamas agrees to disarm if Israel withdraws from Gaza<\/p>\n

Hamas has told the BBC<\/a> that it has agreed to disarm itself as part of President Donald Trump\u2019s peace plan for Gaza. The agreement is dependent on Israel withdrawing from Gaza. Israel has declined comment so far\u2014raising a huge question about whether a lasting peace can be achieved.<\/p>\n

Trump was exultant on his social media platform last night<\/a>: \u201cThis agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work closely with the Board of Peace to help the Palestinian people. At the same time, Israel will have the security it deserves, with Gaza no longer used as a base for terror attacks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major milestone in the implementation of the Trump 20-Point Plan. The agreement will be carried out in carefully structured phases. As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza being safe for its residents and its neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two sides are at the beginning of what will be a long and complicated process. The most immediate issue is, will Hamas agree to disarm before Israel withdraws or must Israel withdraw first and hope that Hamas sticks to its word?<\/p>\n

THE MARKETSEverything is up!<\/p>\n

And just like that, traders shrugged off yesterday\u2019s fear and doubt and became optimistic about the future again. Every single major global index is up this morning\u2014and U.S. futures are up before the bell in New York too. Risk on, everybody!<\/p>\n

Among the factors driving the mood are Amazon\u2019s Q2 earnings call last night. Its stock is up 12% in overnight trading after it reported strong demand for its AWS cloud business. Fortune\u2019s Amanda Gerut has the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s notoriously volatile KOSPI spiked up nearly 18%, one of its largest single-day gains ever. The index is dominated by two chip stocks, SK Hynix and Samsung, and traders were presumably buoyed by the fact that Amazon, Microsoft and Apple all said on their earnings calls this week that they had strong demand for their services\u2014implying a need for the chips that deliver them.<\/p>\n

The price of oil declined despite a new round of attacks by Iran<\/a> on Egypt, Kuwait, and Bahrain.<\/p>\n

S&P 500 futures were up 0.52% this morning. The index was up 1.66% yesterday.\u00a0
\nIn Europe, the Stoxx 600 up 0.79% in early trading and the U.K.\u2019s FTSE 100 was up 0.67% before lunch.
\nAsia: South Korea\u2019s KOSPI was up 17.91%. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 was up 4.03%. India\u2019s Nifty 50 was up 0.22%. China\u2019s CSI 300 up 0.85%.\u00a0
\nBrent crude was $86 per barrel this morning, down from a high of $91 yesterday.
\nBitcoin declined to $63.7K.<\/p>\n

MORE FROM FORTUNE<\/p>\n

As the AI industry calls for help to \u201cpace\u201d AI development. Has OpenAI already hit pause on some development?<\/a> – Beatrice Nolan<\/p>\n

Andy Jassy said Amazon will spend $220 billion this year\u2014and still won\u2019t have enough capacity to meet demand<\/a> – Amanda Gerut<\/p>\n

Tim Cook signed off on his final Apple earnings call with a warning about a \u2018hundred year flood\u2019 in memory chip pricing<\/a> – Alexei Oreskovic<\/p>\n

Elevance Health\u2019s CEO started her career as a pro basketball player. Now she\u2019s the highest\u2011ranking woman on the Global 500, leading a $199B giant<\/a> – Sarah Glodek<\/p>\n

The rise of \u2018conspicuous waiting\u2019: The 19th-century economic theory that explains why Gen Z posts their place in line<\/a> – Tatiana Sataua<\/p>\n

Millennials say they\u2019ll refuse to care for aging Boomer parents\u2014but they\u2019ll be forced to as their inheritance shrinks to 40 cents on the dollar<\/a> – Nick Lichtenberg<\/p>\n

Meet the jet-setting fashion editor who turned a New York manicure at 23 into Nails.Inc\u2014Despite selling for $40 million, she still wakes at 5:45 a.m.<\/a> – Orianna Rosa Royle<\/p>\n

This Dutch bookseller thought a request for 3,000 copies was \u2018spam or phishing.\u2019 Instead, AI companies are scanning and destroying books to train AI<\/a> – Tatiana Sataua<\/p>\n

WHAT HAPPENED WITH WARSH ON WEDNESDAYAt the Fed, \u2018mutiny, if need be\u2019<\/p>\n

Wall Street is still arguing about that Fed hold, perhaps the most confusing FOMC decision in the last 10 years. The base interest rate is below headline inflation, and has been for years. By that logic, the Fed should have raised the rate. About a third of speculators in Fed futures thought that would happen\u2014an unusual level of uncertainty going into the meeting.<\/p>\n

Although Fed chair Kevin Warsh delivered what most expected\u2014no change to the 3.5% level\u2014his remarks sent stocks tumbling on the day and bond yields rising. It even wiped 1.41% off the value of the U.S. dollar<\/a>\u2014an unusually sharp move for the world\u2019s reserve currency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Three FOMC members dissented in favor of hiking rates. There has not been a split like that since 2016, when Janet Yellen was the chair, according to Thierry Wizman and Gareth Berry at Macquarie.<\/p>\n

The pair now expect the dissenters to (politely) \u201cmutiny, if need be\u201d against Warsh before the next meeting in September. \u201cWe expect that the FOMC was wracked by something more serious than a \u2018family fight,\u2019\u201d they told clients. \u201cThe regional Fed presidents, and perhaps members of the Board, are willing to discuss their views in the open and will be doing so over the next few days and weeks. We expect them to do a lot of damage control, and to highlight how they, if not Warsh, are ready to tighten policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne way or another, the increasingly hawkish disposition of the senior Fed officials will emit from the comments and appearances they offer in the next few days and weeks \u2026 The higher long-term yields go, the more strident the broader group of \u2018dissenters\u2019 will become. Warsh can suppress dissent only so much,\u201d they said in an email.<\/p>\n

The longer Warsh spoke, the less bond buyers liked it<\/p>\n

Bank of America\u2019s Aditya Bhave was unimpressed by Warsh\u2019s reluctance to raise rates. (Although Bhave did not have the advantage of knowing that PCE inflation and GDP growth were both going to come in lower than expected the very next day, while Warsh probably did have an inkling about that.) \u201cIronically, we think the need to re-establish credibility increases the probability that the Fed will hike in September, all else being equal,\u201d Bhave told clients. He also created this chart showing the bond market having a heart attack as Warsh spoke:<\/p>\n

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It is possible for a central bank to not cause chaos, apparently<\/p>\n

Over at UBS, the typically arch Paul Donovan\u2014who compared Warsh to Gollum<\/a> from Lord of the Rings two days ago\u2014contrasted the Fed to the central banks of Japan and the U.K. Like the Fed, they also left their interest rates unchanged this week, but chaos did not ensue. \u201cNeither decision prompted a U.S.-style selloff in longer-dated bonds. Bank of England governor Bailey knows how to communicate with markets, and there is no need for a monetary policy uncertainty risk premium in U.K. government bonds,\u201d Donovan noted.<\/p>\n

OIL\u2019S NOT WELLThe war with Iran is teaching the world to use less oil<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s oil refineries are producing less and less oil, according to Yulia Zhestkova Grigsby and her colleagues at Goldman Sachs. As the war with Iran has made oil more expensive\u2014and harder to ship out of the region\u2014customers are buying less of it once it is refined.<\/p>\n

Refinery \u201cruns\u201d\u2014the amount of oil they process per day\u2014are down by 6 million barrels per day, \u201cthe lowest seasonal level since Covid,\u201d Grigsby said in a note.<\/p>\n

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CHART OF THE DAYMost business investment is AI-related, but the real world is catching up<\/p>\n

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The latest GDP numbers came out yesterday and showed an interesting reversal of a worrying trend. For a while now, business investment has only been positive due to heavy investment in AI. Absent AI, corporate capex would be largely negative. However, as this chart from Oxford Economics\u2019 Michael Pearce shows, non-tech investment turned a corner and may be heading back into positive territory.<\/p>\n

NUMBER OF THE DAY11,000<\/p>\n

The number of Americans who turn 65 every day, according to Thomas Simons and Michael Bacolas at Jefferies. The high rate of retirements, removing workers from the official workforce, is keeping the labor market in a good place, which is why unemployment remains relatively low and unemployment claims are in decline, they say.<\/p>\n

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THE FRONT PAGES TODAY<\/p>\n

How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the \u2018golden child\u2019 of the AI trade, was laid low<\/a> – FT<\/p>\n

Anthropic’s models compromised real-world systems during testing<\/a> – Axios<\/p>\n

Deadly storms and a global supply squeeze are sending copper prices soaring<\/a> – CNBC<\/p>\n

\u2018The Boss Wants This Money\u2019: Inside Trump\u2019s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation<\/a> – WSJ<\/p>\n

Solar to Soon Pass Coal as China\u2019s Top Power Capacity Source<\/a> – Bloomberg<\/p>\n

Accept Your Fate. Don\u2019t Wear Shorts to the Office<\/a> – NYT<\/p>\n

Bosses of canoodling Central Park lawyers were also hooking up \u2014 and one just got a $100M payday<\/a> – NY Post<\/p>\n

ONE MORE THINGWhat Love Island winners spend their money on
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Harsh reality awaits the winners of Love Island USA, according to Fortune\u2019s Ellie Pringle<\/a>. Most people assume that the winning couple takes home $100,000 and then signs a series of brand deals, raking in cash from content creation programs. A life of glamorous endorsements and exotic travel surely awaits!<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

The winners of this year\u2019s series said they will use their bounty to pay off their student loans and pay down some bills. Love Island winners are becoming more boring because of inflation: The prize money hasn’t changed since the show started in 2019. If it had kept pace with inflation, it would be worth $130,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

[Love Island image via Ben Symons\/Peacock – Getty Images]<\/p>\n

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