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0:00 outside the treasury on pennsylvania avenue the benchmark ten year yield just registered its sharpest single day collapse since the march twenty twenty three banking crisis tumbling 19.3 basis points to 4.952% in episode one seventy eight we tracked the pressure building across washington and wall street this morning that pressure broke through the floor investors are actively dumping the0:22 artificial intelligence trade and seeking shelter in government debt here is what you need to understand about that shift the bull run that carried tech shares for four years is confronting real panic over capital spending on data centers at the same time the regulatory ceiling just came down hard the treasury department proposed formal rules barring american private capital0:42 from funding advanced technology in china russia and north korea for months that conversation focused strictly on semiconductors and supercomputing the new text expands the crosshairs directly to artificial intelligence and biotechnology if you hold exposure to international venture capital or pharmaceutical pipelines the door on cross border deals is closing the administration will now require mandatory disclosures on select1:05 transactions and outright bans on others citing national security this regulatory pressure lands against a sudden shock in the energy markets president donald trump invoked the defense production act a cold war measure designating domestic oil production refining pipelines and storage as vital to national defense that gives the executive branch power to direct financial incentives straight into fossil infrastructure1:29 the urgency behind that move is visible on the energy desk crude prices are pressing toward wartime highs as drone strikes and regional conflict disrupt tanker shipping prompting the state department to order nonemergency personnel out of saudi arabia now the wire services carry other claims this morning but i will only give you what is verified president trump claimed1:49 canadian jet maker bombardier is investing $270,000,000 inside the united states that part is claimed not confirmed bombardier has not corroborated that commitment and we will stay on it until they do meanwhile the labor market delivered a hard counter signal weekly jobless claims dropped to 194,000 near a sixty year low a necessary reminder this reporting reflects general news2:14 analysis and our own reporting not financial advice the wire services do not support a bloated 10 headline slate this morning the genuine story is concentrated in three moving parts high-tech capital is being walled off by federal decree energy infrastructure is under emergency mobilization and the market is running for cover in sovereign paper that is the picture from2:35 here back to you in the studio
