Market ‘Tug of War’: Earnings vs Inflation and SPX Resilience

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Alexandra Semenova says earnings buoy markets while inflation pressure grows; Rachel Dashiell examines SPX resilience and copper’s tie to 10‑year Treasury yields.

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What stands out

Alexandra Semenova frames the market as a tug of war: corporate earnings lifting risk assets while rising inflation and longer-term yields tug the other way, and Rachel Dashiell tests that thesis by probing S&P 500 (SPX) resiliency and copper’s surprisingly tight correlation with 10-year Treasury yields. This clip matters because it forces a simple question investors forget: are profits strong enough to outrun higher rates? Recent headlines about long-dated Treasury yields climbing add real teeth to the inflation argument, so the video is a short, timely reminder that macro and micro are pulling different directions.