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Topic: risk

The interior of the Chicago Board of Trade
Markets
Thursday, 7/23, 10:16 PM

What a clearinghouse does, and why it quietly holds markets together

  • Every time two parties trade a futures contract, a third party you never see steps into the middle: the clearinghouse.
  • It becomes the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer, so that if one side defaults, the other still gets paid.
  • It is the plumbing that lets strangers trade billions without trusting each other.
The underside of a computer processor chip
Markets 50 d

The Chip Rally Now Rules the Market, and That's a Risk

  • Semiconductor stocks have swelled to a record share of the S&P 500 — around a fifth of the whole index — and drove roughly 70% of its gains this year.
  • That concentration reflects real AI demand, but it also leaves the market unusually dependent on one narrow group of stocks.

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