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Oil and rates are running the tape this morning. Crude is pushing toward triple digits and the 10-year yield just crossed 5.2%, a combination that's rewarding energy producers while punishing gold and anyone who burns jet fuel.

The AI trade is cooling off too, with last week's hottest names giving back ground. One chip giant is bucking the selloff, and its reason says a lot about where management thinks the value sits.

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Occidental Petroleum (OXY): +2%

US oil prices jumped more than 4% to above $96 a barrel, and energy producers are catching the bid. ConocoPhillips (COP) matched the 2% gain, while Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) each added 1.5%. With crude pushing toward triple digits, the sector is turning everyone else's cost problem into its own tailwind.

Nvidia (NVDA): +2%

Nvidia is climbing on a morning when the rest of the chip complex is bleeding, after announcing new AI safety software and a $150 billion increase to its stock buyback. Peers like Marvell Technology (MRVL) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are down 2%, and the broader semiconductor ETF is off almost 2%. A buyback that size is management saying its own stock is the AI bet worth making, and on a risk-off morning, that message is landing.

Newmont (NEM): -4%

The gold miner fell more than 4% as the metal itself slid 3%. Global bond yields are climbing, with the 10-year US Treasury yield crossing 5.2%, and that makes an asset that pays nothing look a lot less appealing next to government debt paying more than 5%. For a miner, gold's losses show up in the stock with extra force.

United Airlines (UAL): -2%

The same oil spike lifting energy producers is landing on airlines as a bill, with investors pricing in higher jet fuel costs. United and American Airlines (AAL) both slipped more than 2%, while Southwest Airlines (LUV) and Delta Air Lines (DAL) are each off more than 1.5%. Every leg higher in crude is another margin hit the market has to price into the whole group.

Meta Platforms (META): -1%

Meta is giving back ground after rallying almost 13% last week on a string of announcements around its personal AI agent, Muse. The pullback comes as AI-linked stocks broadly sell off to start the week. After a run like that, a down day in a risk-off tape reads more like a breather than a verdict on the product.

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The Trade Desk (TTD)

A week after its removal from the S&P 500 took effect, the ad-tech name is still a fixture in retail discussion, with Stocktwits threads split between frustrated holders and a smaller camp arguing the stock is oversold and primed for short covering. On X, the talking point is the round trip: added to the index in July 2025, booted just over a year later.

The stock has lost roughly 65% of its value this year, and index funds had to sell an estimated $680 million of shares to execute the removal. Traders seem to be watching whether that forced selling marked the end of the pressure or just the latest leg of a longer slide.

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