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The Treasury Department's surprise move to more than double its long-dated debt buybacks sends yields sharply lower and stocks rallying Wednesday, only for the relief to reverse Thursday after President Trump vows a "crushing economic operation" against Iran and sends oil prices higher again. We cover why the 30-year Treasury yield's climb to a near-20-year high forced the govern...

Markets waver Monday after fresh violence in Lebanon and a deadly Houthi strike on a cargo ship in the Red Sea, even as the core exchange of strikes between the US and Iran remains paused and Jared Kushner pursues Gaza ceasefire talks with Hamas in Egypt. We cover the ongoing dispute over the real state of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Goldman Sachs' more cautious read on US consumer...

July retail sales fall a sharp 0.6%, and consumer sentiment deteriorates further, closing out a week where the S&P 500 still notched its first-ever close above 7,800 and a third consecutive winning week. We unpack the genuine puzzle underneath it all: falling Fed rate-hike odds paired with the government's highest 30-year bond yield in 25 years, and fresh Goldman Sachs scrutiny over how hy...

The S&P 500 closes above 7,800 for the first time ever after a soft July Producer Price Index report, capping a week that saw September rate-hike odds collapse from roughly 55% to around 34%. We cover the notable split within Thursday's PPI data, where wholesale goods prices actually fell even as services costs kept climbing, and GDS Wealth Management's read on why the Fed's real p...

July's CPI report lands exactly in line with forecasts, pushing the S&P 500 to a fresh record and sending September rate-hike odds down to around 40%, capping off a week that saw those same odds swing from 55% to 42% to over 50% and back again. We cover why oil's continued climb above $83 a barrel means yesterday's relief may not carry forward, Nebius Group's 34% surge on stron...

Markets brace for the July Consumer Price Index, the most consequential inflation data left before the Fed's September meeting, with economists expecting the annual rate to ease slightly to 3.4% even as a rebound in the monthly figure is expected after June's unusually sharp decline. We cover why today's number matters so much for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh after last month's split 9-3...

Oil surges and stocks slip Monday after Iran says talks with Oman are nearing agreement while denying any direct negotiation with the US — the same contradiction pattern markets have wrestled with for days — pushing September rate-hike odds back above 50% just one trading day after falling to 42%. We cover Intel's selloff following a $15 billion stock offering, Nvidia's pullback despite re...

After the best week for US stocks since April, driven by a surprising July jobs decline that slashed September rate-hike odds from 55% to 42% overnight, attention shifts fully to this week's inflation data. We cover the genuinely mixed forecasts heading into Wednesday's CPI report, oil's climb this morning on renewed uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz, and a Deutsche Bank strategist...

Iran and Oman signal they're nearing a deal on managing the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran's own Supreme National Security Council draws a sharp line, saying full reopening depends on a list of demands including a US withdrawal and compensation that observers call highly unlikely to be met. We cover a fresh weekend strike on a UAE-owned tanker even as those talks proceed, notable CNN reporting...

The US economy unexpectedly loses 23,000 jobs in July, wage growth cools to its slowest pace since 2021, and the unemployment rate falls for the least encouraging reason possible — yet the S&P 500 closes the week at a fresh record. We unpack why markets read weak labor data as good news for Fed policy, the nuance underneath the headline number including a government-jobs-driven decline and siz...

Markets brace for the July nonfarm payrolls report after a genuinely contradictory run of recent data — record-low layoffs and weekly jobless claims sitting alongside a badly missed ADP private hiring number and soft job openings. We cover why today's release could determine whether the Fed sticks to its currently priced single rate hike or moves toward as many as three by year-end, and look b...

US markets notch a third consecutive record close after Palantir's stock surges nearly 30% on a 93% revenue jump, Amazon briefly crosses $3 trillion in market value, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could land as soon as today. We cover oil's dramatic slide from above $100 to under $79 a barrel in under two weeks, a genuinely encouraging July...

Markets wake up to a much murkier picture than Monday's record close suggested, after Iran publicly denied Trump's claim that talks were underway, and Trump followed with sharply escalated rhetoric describing the moment as a last chance before what he called decapitation. We cover why Asian markets failed to follow Wall Street's Monday rally, with doubts about the AI trade resurfacing...

Oil sinks and stocks rally to open August after President Trump cancels a planned "massive" strike on Iran and says new talks begin today — even as Iran itself has yet to publicly confirm any of it. We cover Brent's sharp drop toward $84, the Dow leading US gains while small caps lag behind, and the relief rally spreading to European and Indian markets, including a bumpy debut for a...

President Trump says he's calling off a planned attack on Iran, contingent on a rapid deal, and points to progress in Iran-Oman talks over managing the Strait of Hormuz — but Iranian state media has yet to acknowledge broader negotiations are even happening, and ships remain stuck in both the strait's northern and southern corridors. We cover the tension between that diplomatic opening and...

Markets suffer their worst Fed-decision day in over a year and a half after Iran launches a surprise missile attack ending the recent lull in fighting, and the Federal Reserve holds rates steady on a notably split 9-3 vote that sent long-term Treasury yields to their highest levels since 2007. We cover the Dow's worst single-day drop since April 2025, a second consecutive day of steep losses f...

Markets close out July with one of the sharpest reversals of the summer, as Microsoft's stock surges 16% on the back of blowout Azure growth, adding a record-setting $450 billion in single-day market value, while Amazon's accelerating cloud revenue fuels a broader tech rebound. We cover Apple's more than 7% slide on weak Services and China revenue, cooler June PCE inflation and softer...

Markets suffer their worst Fed-decision day in over a year and a half after Iran launches a surprise missile attack ending the recent lull in fighting, and the Federal Reserve holds rates steady on a notably split 9-3 vote that sent long-term Treasury yields to their highest levels since 2007. We cover the Dow's worst single-day drop since April 2025, a second consecutive day of steep losses f...

A brief lull in the Middle East ends abruptly as Iran launches a ballistic missile barrage on US forces overnight, intercepted by American and Jordanian defenses, followed by joint US-Saudi strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq — landing the same day Israeli PM Netanyahu and Ukraine's Zelenskyy meet President Trump in Washington. We cover why markets are reacting with relative composure to t...

South Korea's Kospi plunges nearly 11%, its worst session in years, as SK Hynix and Samsung both drop double digits and the selloff spreads to Japan, the Nasdaq-100, and major US chip names like Micron, AMD, and Dell. We unpack the two forces behind it — a broad profit-taking rotation out of chipmakers and fresh reports of China ramping up its own chip-equipment production — alongside growing...

Oil sinks and stocks rally to start the week as the US and Iran both pause hostilities after nearly two weeks of strikes, with Tehran reportedly agreeing to an informal "attack for attack" framework of mutual restraint. We cover the cross-asset relief rally spreading from Wall Street to Indian equities and the rupee, and the parallel story that oil's drop doesn't erase: growing i...

After thirteen consecutive nights of US strikes on Iran, operations moved onto what officials describe as a hold this weekend, with talks between American and Iranian negotiators resuming at multiple levels and Iran holding direct discussions with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz. We cover why that fragile calm sits alongside genuinely hard-line rhetoric from Tehran, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu...

Markets close out a genuinely volatile week with a hopeful, if fragile, diplomatic thread developing over the weekend: Pakistan, backed by China, is exploring a path back toward stalled US-Iran talks, following renewed visits from Iran's interior minister to Islamabad. We recap a week that saw Brent crude spike above $102 a barrel, the "Magnificent Seven" shed close to $800 billion i...

Brent crude broke above $100 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since the US-Iran conflict began, before easing back this morning as markets caught their breath — alongside a new, smaller flashpoint as China conducted live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait. We cover Intel's after-hours earnings, where a 25% revenue jump and a huge EPS beat were met with a surprisingly muted stock reaction...

Alphabet and Tesla both beat revenue expectations in their second-quarter reports last night, yet both stocks fell in after-hours trading — Alphabet on a sharply higher capital spending forecast and negative free cash flow, Tesla on margin pressure despite record deliveries. We look at what that reaction says heading into tonight's Intel earnings, and at Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's pointed war...