Stocks rose in early trading with AI-exposed names like Nvidia and Oracle getting a lift. Meera Pandit from J.P. Morgan Asset Management joins with her market take following new consumer sentiment and housing data. Apollo’s Torsten Slok talks about new headlines around the search for the next Fed chair, and new doubts around this week’s surprise inflation data. Plus, why one analyst says to buy the Nike dip, and The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern talks about an AI experiment in her newsroom that devolved into chaos.

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Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored what to make of an earnings doubleheader: Nike shares tumbled as weak sales in China overshadowed a Q2 beat and strength in North America. What is the status of the company's turnaround plan? Shares of FedEx also down despite better-than-expected quarterly results. The anchors also discussed OpenAI reportedly kicking off a new fundraising round that could value the maker of ChatGPT by as much as $830 billion. Also in focus: Oracle shares in rally mode, Carnival surges on earnings, Fed governor Waller in the mix as President Trump narrows his search for a new Fed chair, what's triggering Bank of America's sell signal.

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