Two data prints decide today's setup

Pre-market shows a modest, broad-based bid this morning — SPY, QQQ, and NVDA have all ticked up alongside firmer index futures. That's a firmer location than yesterday's close, not a resolved breakout. Thursday finished split across the three names, so today's two catalysts — durable goods at 8:30 AM ET and final Michigan sentiment at 10:00 AM ET — are the real tiebreaker.

Today's Session Bias: No Trade / Choppy

No synchronized, sustained move has developed across all three names yet — today's data block decides that.

Rates are doing the heavy lifting: real yields have eased further this morning, extending Thursday's relief and giving duration-sensitive names some room to breathe. Working against that: S&P breadth deteriorated sharply into Thursday's close, high-yield credit has widened over the week even as implied volatility eased, and the Treasury market is still carrying last week's historically fast yield spike, which could resume. It's a genuine tug of war, not a clean setup in either direction.

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— Nate

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