This hour is marked by significant capital maneuvers in the tech sector and emerging geopolitical and fiscal pressures. Nvidia is aggressively scaling its footprint, pursuing a $250 billion financing deal with OpenAI for an AI data center hub while simultaneously acquiring $1 billion in Naver shares. Elsewhere, stability is fragile; while U.S. and Iran attacks have paused for a second day, global markets are reacting to easing oil supply concerns. Fiscal scrutiny is intensifying, with federal authorities probing a $16 billion private-credit portfolio linked to the Dodgers owner, and the U.K. grappling with rigid welfare expenditures. On the domestic political front, the Democratic Socialists of America's calls for systemic abolition are meeting stiff resistance from Congress, which is also moving to curb local surveillance technology and assert fiscal control over District of Columbia spending.