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  "id": 2335224,
  "title": "Stocks Finish Mixed as Bond Yields Fall and Chipmakers Slide",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/stocks-finish-mixed-as-bond-yields-fall-and-chipmakers-slide",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-19T20:35:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Finance",
    "slug": "yahoo-finance",
    "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stocks-finish-mixed-bond-yields-203512126.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Stocks closed mixed on Wednesday, with the Nasdaq 100 falling to a 1.5-week low despite the broader market being supported by lower US bond yields. The 10-year T-note yield dropped to 4.65% following a Treasury announcement to boost liquidity and double buybacks for longer-dated nominal coupon securities. However, chipmaker and AI-infrastructure stocks continued to underperform, dragging down the Nasdaq 100. Meanwhile, Moderna saw a surge of over +176% after announcing positive results from a personalized cancer vaccine trial with Merck & Co. The US Treasury's intervention in bond markets is seen as a positive signal for gold. US mortgage applications fell, with purchase mortgage applications down and refinancing applications up. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remained unchanged. Fed officials indicated that policy tightening might be necessary if inflation does not decline, with high uncertainty in inflation outlooks. The Iran-Iraq conflict continued to weigh on oil prices, with September WTI crude oil prices rising more than +1%.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}