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  "angle": "Hot CPI sold off stocks, but the dollar couldn't hold its gains; FX desks say the AI-debt correction is now the bigger trade.",
  "headline": "The dollar's bad day: hot CPI sold stocks, then the AI trade took the wheel",
  "dek": "September inflation spiked rate-hike odds and sank equities, but the dollar gave back its gains as AI-debt fears took over. The Swiss franc is the safe haven of the moment.",
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      "text": "The S&P 500 fell 1.2% and the Nasdaq 1.9% overnight on the CPI print; implied October Fed-hike odds jumped from ~20% to over 50% before settling at 35%.",
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          "markdown": "September's hot inflation print hit markets like a flash crash in slow motion. The S&P 500 fell 1.2% overnight and the Nasdaq dropped 1.9% as chipmakers sold off again, Treasuries faced selling pressure, and the implied odds of an October Fed hike jumped from about 20% to over 50% before settling at 35% by the session's end, according to Westpac's morning report. European equities bucked the weaker U.S. trend. Brent crude held near $106 a barrel, up 0.3%, on ongoing disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.",
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      "heading": "The AI trade takes over",
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          "markdown": "What took the dollar's momentum, per ING's FX desk, was not more inflation data; it was the AI trade. The bank says the market is increasingly sensitive to the debt sustainability of high-yield AI infrastructure providers, with CoreWeave's 2032 bonds trading at 78 cents on the dollar. The Swiss franc is outperforming as a safe haven on narrower interest-rate differentials, while the currencies most tied to AI chip shipments, the Taiwan dollar and the Korean won, are taking the heaviest selling pressure.",
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          "markdown": "Emerging Europe had its own motion. Romania moved closer to ending its political deadlock with the Social Democrats joining Luca Niculescu's cabinet, a development ING expects to stabilize the leu and reduce investment-grade rating risks. Poland's final September inflation was revised to 4.1%, with government fuel-price caps reducing headline inflation by 0.6 to 0.7 percentage points; the National Bank of Poland is expected to discuss rate hikes no earlier than December.",
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          "markdown": "A second ING note reaches a different conclusion on direction: the dollar story is improving. It sees EUR/USD trading between 1.10 and 1.15 over the next three to six months, with limited scope for a near-term euro rebound, the Federal Reserve taking policy into mildly restrictive territory, and the dollar playing its safe-haven role again. U.S.-eurozone rate differentials are at their widest since 2022, and the market has priced three Fed hikes over the next twelve months. The caveats: foreign investors' FX hedge ratios on U.S. assets are back to very low levels, French debt concerns persist until April's presidential elections, and potential White House intervention in financial or trade policy is a key risk.",
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    "Whether AI-infrastructure debt stress spreads beyond the high-yield names.",
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