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Wall Street's crowded chipmaker trade continued to unravel, dragging down stocks on speculation that a surge from this year's lows has gone too far amid war-fueled inflation risks that have sank bonds. Omar Aguilar, CEO and CIO at Schwab Asset Management, discusses his outlook on the markets as 30-year yields climb to a level last seen in 2007.

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Shares of CoreWeave (CRWV) and other neo-cloud companies slump premarket after Alphabet agreed to create an artificial intelligence cloud business with Blackstone. Google agreed to create an AI cloud business with Blackstone. - Meta (META) shares are moving as it's reassigning workers to new jobs related to artificial intelligence as part of a broad corporate restructuring. The new corporate structure will be "flatter" and mean "smaller teams", according to Chief People Officer Janelle Gale. - Home Depot (HD) shares are moving in the premarket after sales at Home Depot locations open at least a year rose 0.6% during the three months ended May 3, slightly below the average of analysts' estimates. Home Depot's business has been hit by elevated interest rates and high housing prices, which have sparked a pullback in home purchases and upgrade projects.

The European Central Bank may have to respond to the economic challenges arising from the conflict in the Middle East, according to Governing Council members Joachim Nagel and Francois Villeroy de Galhau, who spoke jointly to BTV's Oliver Crook on the sidelines of the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Paris on Tuesday.

Navid Mahmoodzadegan, who stepped into the chief executive role at Moelis last October, has described a "return to normal" in the Middle East following months of the Iran War. The global investment bank has been a key player in the region with a history of advising Gulf transactions including the Aramco IPO. Mahmoodzadegan, also the company's co-founder, told Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua that the company is committed to the Middle East over the long-term.

Home Depot missed sales expectations at locations open at least a year, rising 0.6% in the latest quarter, as muted housing demand and high borrowing costs limited consumer spending on improvement projects. Drew Reading of Bloomberg Intelligence has more.

Cameron Dawson, CIO at NewEdge Wealth, sees the pullback in tech stocks as "perfectly normal and perfectly prudent," but warns that "a simple correction in those names back to trend could be damaging for the overall market-cap weighted index."

US President Donald Trump said he called off a new bombardment of Iran planned for Tuesday after Persian Gulf allies wanted more time to pursue diplomacy. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television.

Goldman Sachs International co-CEOs Anthony Gutman and Kunal Shah discuss the outlook for Europe's capital markets, risks facing the global economy and the race to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure. They speak on Bloomberg Television.

Standard Chartered said it plans to eliminate thousands of support roles over the next four years, joining the ranks of global lenders using artificial intelligence to trim headcount. "It's not about cost cutting," Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters said at a press briefing in Hong Kong. "It's about having a structurally more productive environment that is fit for future." Bloomberg's Tom Metcalf reports.

Nyrada (ASX:NYR) received a notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its patent application covering Xolatryp.

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade."

OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann discusses the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on the global economy, saying the Iran war is putting "downward pressure on growth and upward pressure on inflation." He speaks to Bloomberg's Oliver Crook on the sidelines of a Group of Seven meeting in Paris.