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Positive breadth and small-cap leadership supported a midday rebound, while a near-4.8% ten-year yield and oil above $90 kept the risk picture mixed.

Oil, yields and confirmed geopolitical escalation drove broad declines and defensive leadership into the close.

Oil, yields and weak breadth kept the midday tape defensive as energy and staples led while semiconductors lagged.

Oil and Treasury yields pressured the premarket while weak prior breadth raised the bar for a durable rebound.

Narrow technology strength masked weak breadth as oil and Treasury yields rose, leaving a mixed but defensive close.

Broad midday weakness, poor breadth, higher oil and an elevated ten-year yield outweighed narrow strength in energy and selected technology names.

Nasdaq futures led a split premarket while weak small-cap futures, soft prior breadth and a sharp oil rise argued for confirmation after the open.

Stocks closed higher with semiconductor leadership and positive breadth, while equal-weight softness, hawkish Fed signals, tariff escalation and Wednesday earnings kept confirmation incomplete.

A mixed close masks concentrated technology and semiconductor weakness as defensive breadth, lower yields, Iran policy risk, and major midweek data shape the next session.

A mixed midday tape masks concentrated semiconductor weakness as lower yields, defensive rotation, tariffs, maritime risk, and a Taiwan export-control case shape the session.