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About half the S&P 500 (SPX) is trading below its 50-day simple moving average (SMA), a clear momentum warning Tom White flagged on Schwab Network, and that matters because breadth often dictates how forgiving markets are of surprises. Add crude oil back near $93 and a cloudier Federal Reserve (Fed) outlook, and company-specific news starts to move prices more violently. That showed up today as Broadcom and HPE sold off despite strong results, while Nvidia shocked the world by agreeing to buy Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, underlining how AI bets are reshaping capital allocation.