AI seen fueling Microsoft to $3 trillion value in Morgan Stanley model

Despite a 42% share-price rally this year, the valuation is “still reasonable,” according to Weiss. The stock’s so-called PEG ratio, or the price-earnings multiple divided by the expected percentage growth in earnings, “remains in line with historical averages, despite the unrivaled generative AI positioning,” he wrote. The PEG ratio is a metric often used by growth-focused investors.

Buckling bond market casts pall over stocks

Two-year Treasury yields burst above 5% and futures pricing started to admit the possibility that the Federal Reserve will raise rates twice before the year is out. Ten-year yields rose more than 17 basis points in two sessions to 4.05%, and selling wrapped around the globe as investors who had positioned for a peak in interest rates bailed out.

Stocks slide, US yields climb amid hawkish Fed, China tensions

The dollar slipped 0.22% to 144.335 yen on Thursday, undoing all of the previous day’s 0.13% advance. Japanese officials have sounded almost daily warnings over yen weakness as it approached the 145 level that triggered intervention last autumn. The dollar briefly touched 145.07 yen on Friday.