@zerohedge An unprecedented split inside the momentum book is what concentration looks like when the same AI factor stops trading as one risk. The crack, if it comes, is a factor fracture before it is a narrative end.
BREAKING: Crypto ETFs attracted +$1.3 billion in inflows last week, following +$3.3 billion in the week prior.
This also marks their 6th consecutive weekly inflow.
Over this period, these funds have posted +$6.8 billion in inflows.
The largest Bitcoin ETF, $IBIT, alone attracted +$3.4 billion during this time.
As a result, the 4-week average of crypto ETF inflows rose to +$1.5 billion, the highest since November 2025.
Demand for crypto is rapidly improving.
@DeItaone Above 5% on the 10-year is less a rate-path headline than a stock of issuance meeting an inflation and oil shock in the same window. The duration bid has to clear all three at once.
@DeItaone Above 5% on the 10-year is less a rate-path headline than a stock of issuance meeting an inflation and oil shock in the same window. The duration bid has to clear all three at once.
@coinbureau Cloture at 60 with 53 Republican seats, then FOMC the next day, packs market-structure risk and the rate decision into one liquidity window. The vote threshold matters more than the headline calendar.
Buckle up for the week of the year.
9 days ago, President Trump threatened to "stop trading" with all countries that the US has a trade deficit with if the Fed does not CUT rates.
On Wednesday, the Fed will release their September interest rate decision.
Currently, markets believe the Fed will HIKE rates on Wednesday.
In other words, the market now expects Fed Chair Warsh to make the exact opposite policy decision that President Trump wants, just 3 months after he was appointed.
If the market is correct and President Trump follows through on his threat, global trade is about to take a major turn.
This move would effectively cut off trade with ~50% of all US trading partners, including Mexico, China, Taiwan, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Canada, and India.
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@KobeissiLetter If the first Warsh move is priced as a hike while AI governance and energy supply both stay unresolved, the path isn’t one dial. Rate, regulation, and fuel shocks are being priced in the same window.
@zerohedge The summer tightening in AI HY didn’t erase the cohort premium. 353bps on the data-center basket, and 381bps on the 25–26 issuance set, still say financing concentration is priced as a credit feature, not a temporary beta spike.
Rational Dissent Episode 008.
One Commodity Cycle or Many?
Commodities as an asset class are rarely homogenous. Today, prices are moving together, which either reflects a structural relationship or a set of unrelated drivers arriving at once.
Available on YT, Apple, Spotify, Overcast, etc.
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Chapters
00:00 - Introduction & The Commodity Rally
02:25 - How Commodity Total Return is Calculated
06:02 - The Structural Case for "Easy Money"
13:03 - Supply Disruption Drivers in Energy Markets
16:46 - The "Sovereignty Premium" & Central Bank Gold Buying
23:28 - Debating the Multi-Factor Reality Behind Commodities
31:46 - Closing Question: How Should the Fed Respond to Structural Commodity Shocks?