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After Thursday's brutal selloff, AI and semiconductor stocks are bouncing sharply in premarket, with Nasdaq futures up about 1.5% while Dow futures lag, so this is a tech-led rebound rather than a broad recovery. The strongest moves are coming from the most beaten-down areas: memory, semiconductors, optical and connectivity, and NeoCloud names are all up solidly after steep losses on Thursday, but I'm treating today as Day 2 of this selling leg, and the bounce still has to prove itself. I want to see strength hold beyond the first hour, leadership broaden past a handful of oversold names, the Nasdaq reclaim key technical levels, and genuine buying volume rather than another round of short covering. In the power and energy space, Vistra delivered a strong quarter with raised guidance, a reminder that electricity generation and grid capacity are critical parts of the AI infrastructure story, though its net income includes a large unrealized hedge gain, so adjusted EBITDA is

Crack spreads and why they matter

The most important point is that a crack spread measures the difference between the market price of a refined petroleum product and the price of crude oil, expressed in dollars per barrel. It is a measure of the market's incentive to turn crude into a particular product. It is not the refinery's actual net profit, because it excludes many operating, transportation and other costs. For example, a diesel crack of $100/bbl means that diesel is trading at a premium of $100 per barrel over the chosen crude benchmark. That is an extremely large price differential and can indicate unusually strong demand for diesel, constrained diesel supplies, or both.

The significance of the readings becomes clearer when we examine each benchmark individually.

1. US diesel cracks — the most concerning readings

New York Harbor diesel–WTI

$102.93 per barrel · 3 November

US Gulf Coast diesel–WTI

$90.41 per barrel · 3 November

These two readings measure the premium of diesel over West

Time to go short.

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