Macro Brief
A plain-English read on what shifted in the economy — growth, market, inflation, and recession risk — published every Monday. Each brief is dated to the data as known at publication and is not revised when new figures land.
Latest · 8 June 2026
Expansion is intact and hiring is reaccelerating, but a chip-led market rout and a yield spike show investors now treat strong data as a rate-hike risk — even as a record IPO wave led by SpaceX and Anthropic prepares to hit public markets.
Markets had their worst day in over a year on Friday: the Nasdaq fell about 4% — its biggest drop since April 2025 — the S&P 500 lost 2.6% to roughly 7,384, and close to $1 trillion in value evaporated, led by a violent slide in chip stocks after Broadcom declined to raise its AI-chip outlook.
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