<h1>Markets rise on cooling inflation and strong AI revenue forecast; legal risks include Rule 10b-5, disclosure, insider-trading.</h1> U.S. equity markets reached fresh highs after wholesale inflation cooled and a major cloud-software company issued an optimistic AI-driven revenue forecast, while chipmakers and other tech firms saw significant share-price moves and a buy-now-pay-later firm began trading publicly. Legal considerations include heightened securities-law scrutiny of forward-looking statements and earnings guidance that materially move markets, potential disclosure obligations for material contracts cited by reporting companies, and insider trading or market-manipulation risks around volatile announcements. Anticipated central-bank rate cuts implicate regulatory oversight of market stability and bond-yield impacts on fiduciary duties for institutional investors re: portfolio risk and disclosure to clients.