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[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

Banking fundamentals led every major crisis of the last 20 years. The data was always there — months before markets moved. Most people weren’t watching it.
We are. 🧵

[chrisjsnook.btc @DigitalSenseXYZ]

That means a lot @RealDollarValue and is the unique value of our format that we hope to achieve as we humanize the people behind the ideas and the insights. Hope to have you come back for more and check out the archives with some other great minds

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@FirstSquawk 50bp of cuts priced in February. 20bp of hikes priced today. The Fed went from easing to tightening in market expectations without moving once. That’s the Hormuz energy shock and tariff stack repricing the policy path. The demand destruction leg is still running underneath it.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@Polymarket Metal tariff exemptions: EU, UK, South Korea. Not Canada. Canada retaliates for another year instead. The Americas aren’t automatically aligned — they’re the target of the consolidation. Countries inside the hemisphere that resist the structure pay the same price as anyone else.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@SantiagoAuFund

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@DeItaone Greenland is the Arctic early warning perimeter, the GIUK gap anchor, the northern boundary of hemisphere control. Monthly defense talks already running. “For now” means the access question is settled. The sovereignty question is still open. Rubio just told you which one matters.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@DigitalSenseXYZ @SantiagoAuFund The best Brent interview I’ve seen. First time hearing his origin story! First time watching you, Chris — great interviewer, you asked great questions!

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@FirstSquawk China 4% of GDP in subsidies. US LNG costs are market-priced. European manufacturers competing against subsidized Chinese goods buy US energy at market rates. The tariff levels the input cost structure. The subsidy figure is why the alignment exemption list exists.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@Macrobysunil Rising yields with dollar firm isn’t just a liquidity stress signal. It’s the front end of a sequence that ends in curve flattening and capital concentration in US fixed income. 10Y at 4.50, 30Y at 5.00 — the long end is where the mortgage market lives.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@FirstSquawk “Temporary inflation.” “Very strong economy.” “Stability has returned with China.” All from Bessent before 1pm. The job of Treasury communications is confidence management. The job of markets is price discovery. NFP Thursday. One of these functions will update its output.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@business EU bracing for tariff fights with the US and China simultaneously. 73.9Mt of North American LNG bought last year. $750B more committed under Turnberry. Trade conflict with Beijing accelerating. Europe didn’t get caught between two powers. It got structured between them.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

73.9Mt to Europe. 37.3Mt to everyone else combined. The US became the world’s largest LNG exporter and immediately concentrated the flow toward the one region that had to replace Russian supply under security pressure. That’s not a market outcome. That’s an architecture.

[World Data Analysis @World_Data_A]

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The North American LNG story feels like magic

The chart provides the big picture. North America has become one of the most important LNG-exporting regions in the world, with Europe emerging as its dominant customer and the United States becoming the world's largest LNG exporter.

North American LNG exports are increasingly concentrated in Europe

The destination breakdown for 2025 reveals a striking pattern.
- Europe imported 73.9 million tonnes of North American LNG.
- Asia imported 21.1 million tonnes.
- Africa imported 8.7 million tonnes.
- The Americas imported 7.5 million tonnes.

In other words, Europe purchased more North American LNG than all other destination regions combined.

The export structure is also highly concentrated geographically. Major U.S. liquefaction facilities such as Sabine Pass (29.4 Mt), Corpus Christi (16.6 Mt), Plaquemines (16.2 Mt), Freeport (15.1 Mt) and Cameron (13.3 Mt) collectively account for the majority of exports. Even Canada's LNG contribution remains relatively small at 2.2 Mt in 2025.

This highlights how Europe's post-2022 energy strategy has effectively redirected a large share of North American LNG production toward the Atlantic Basin.
Source: @ieefa by Clark Williams-Derry, Mark Kalegha, Susan Torres and Audrey Edwards

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@FirstSquawk “Temporary inflation.” “Very strong economy.” Both from Bessent this morning. The job of a Treasury Secretary is to project confidence. The job of the data is to be accurate. ISM Prices Paid 84.6. ISM Employment 46.4. NFP Thursday. One of these will be revised.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@FirstSquawk Copper, steel, aluminum tariffs start June 8. Exemptions: EU, UK, South Korea. The tariff isn’t the instrument — the exemption is. It tells every country in the world exactly what alignment is worth in dollar terms. The non-aligned list pays the tariff. The allied list doesn’t.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@FirstSquawk Copper, steel, aluminum tariffs June 8. Copper NY-LME basis already at +11.9% — the physical market was pricing this before the announcement. That’s the signal sequence: basis spreads move first, the tariff headline follows.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@FirstSquawk ISM Prices Paid 84.6. PPI 6% YoY. Hormuz still disrupted. Fresh 10% tariffs on most trading partners. Bessent: inflation is “temporary.” Either he knows something the market doesn’t, or the Fed framework just got handed a word it will have to retire in about six months.

[GregTheAnalyst @Analyst_G]

BOJ GOV UEDA: IF WE DELAY NECESSARY RESPONSE, WE COULD BE FORCED TO RAISE RATES SHARPLY WHICH IN TURN WOULD HURT ECONOMY, IMPOSE HUGE BURDEN ON MARKETS AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM

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[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@LatamData Rubio named Brazil non-allied this morning. Now 25% tariffs on 45% of its US exports. Brazil is the largest economy in the Americas outside the US. If Washington is willing to apply this pressure at that scale, the Monroe Doctrine 2.0 isn’t a fringe thesis anymore.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@LatamData Banrep profits -42% YoY — central bank absorbing the cost of its own tightening cycle. 13.25% rates meant paying more on commercial bank reserves than it earned. The constraint isn’t in the commercial banking system yet — it’s in the policy buffer.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@business Switzerland staying in trade talks after fresh tariffs. Five centuries of neutrality and they’re still at the table. That’s the alignment mechanism working on the most independent state in Europe. The tariff doesn’t need to land. The threat is the instrument.

[World Dollar Value @RealDollarValue]

@jackprandelli Russian export infrastructure under physical attack hours before St. Petersburg Economic Forum. Every barrel that can’t leave a damaged terminal is a barrel Europe needs to replace — with US LNG. The petrogas-dollar transition doesn’t require negotiation.