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Kevin Gordon highlights an unusual tug-of-war: a few dovish Federal Reserve voices are trying to temper expectations even as the housing market sits frozen with mortgage rates above 7 percent, and Nathan Peterson says AI-driven volatility is driving a flight into what traders call the "safest" stocks. The clip matters because both threads point to the same market behavior, participants watching forward guidance from the Fed while reallocating around Big Tech capital expenditures, which Peterson names as the clearest near-term data point to watch for ripple effects into smaller neocloud providers.