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📊Yields near 4.8% and $97 oil set a risk-heavy tone; Asia rallies anyway
📈10 year presses toward 4.8% on a $40tn debt load
🌏Nikkei +2% Kospi +3.65% even as the U.S. hits 3 Iranian tankers; Brent ~$97
✈️Anak Krakatau eruption shuts Jakarta airport grounding hundreds of flights

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📊 Market Brief: jobs day lands with the Fed leaning toward a hold.

📊 August payrolls seen at just +53k; unemployment ~4.1%
🌍 EU officially joins the U.S.-led "Operation Economic Outcast" on Iran
📉 Bond selloff widens: UK gilts hit ~5.2%, highest since 2008

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📊 Market Brief: stocks steady as U.S. yields ease, but the global bond selloff and Iran conflict grind on.

📈 Dow +0.6% as the 10-year backs off its 4.818% peak
🌏 Japan's 10-year tops 3% (first since 1996); Germany at a 2011 high
⚠️ Iran hits U.S. bases in Kuwait;

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📊 Market Brief: higher yields and $90 oil pressure stocks as the Iran conflict escalates.

📈 10-year at a multi-month high; Nasdaq off ~1%
🛢️ Brent and WTI both above $90 on renewed U.S.-Iran strikes
🇨🇳 China alone blocks the G20 statement on "cheap exports"

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📊 August closes higher even as U.S.-Iran tensions escalate.
📈 Stocks hold August gains (S&P ~+2.5%); futures flat Tuesday
🛢️ New Hormuz tanker hit (3 projectiles); Iran downs a U.S. MQ-9; Brent near $90
🌎 U.S.-backed NABEP wins 100-yr rights to 65bn barrels in Venezuela

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📊 Market Brief: markets slip as U.S.-Iran tensions flare over the Strait of Hormuz.

🛡️ CENTCOM says U.S. struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island; Iran hit back at U.S. bases
🛢️ Oil +1%: Brent ~$89, WTI ~$85
⚠️ Trump claims Kharg oil hub hit, but there is no confirmation

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📊 Market Brief: all eyes on Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech as markets weigh a September hold.

🎤 Futures flat; CME FedWatch sees ~2-in-3 odds of a hold
🛍️ Gap +~15% on a new Old Navy CEO and an earnings beat
🤖 DeepSeek reopens a ~$8bn round at a ~$74bn valuation

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📊 Market Brief: Nvidia's blowout powers an AI rally as energy risks build.

🟢 Nvidia: Q2 rev $96.2bn, EPS $2.22; guides ~70% FY28 growth (vs 44%)
🛢️ Tanker struck in Hormuz; traffic near a standstill
🔥 Europe gas at ~63%; TTF tops €68, €100 winter risk

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📊Market Brief: Nvidia earnings tonight and the July PCE headline the week.
🟢Nvidia reports after the close; ~$2.09 EPS on ~$92bn, the S&P's biggest name
🕊️ Oil slides (WTI toward $80) as Iran sanctions land softer than feared
⚛️rump's 30-year Saudi nuclear pact goes to Congress

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📊 Market Brief: markets wait on Nvidia earnings and July PCE (both Wednesday).

🟢 Nvidia reports Wed after the close; futures near flat
🏛️ 10-year eases to 4.7% on Treasury buyback-funding talk
🌐 Bessent's "Operation Economic Outcast" warns China is not exempt

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📊 Market Brief: yields near 19-year highs as the U.S. readies its toughest Iran sanctions.

📈 30-year near 5.3%; S&P fell 1.4% last week
🛢️ Bessent trails an "economic D-Day" on Iran; WTI ~$86, Brent ~$93
🇨🇳 Alibaba -10% on a $10.2bn AI share sale

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📊 Market Brief: yields snap back and stocks slide as U.S. debt tops $40tn.

📉 10-year back near 4.7%; S&P -0.9% (down 1.9% on the week)
🏛️ National debt hits a record $40 trillion, months early
📊 Hedge funds' crowded bets lag the S&P by the most in ~5 years

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📊 Market Brief: the Treasury steps in to calm the bond market.

📉 Long-end buybacks doubled to $4bn; 30-year yield backs off its 2007 high
🛢️ Trump vows the "most crushing" economic hit on Iran; UAE halts all trade, Brent ~$92
💾 SK Hynix +12% on a 40tn won ($28.7bn) buyback

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📊 Market Brief: a global bond selloff meets a robotics blockbuster.

📈 30-year Treasury at a 19-year high; Japan 10-year at a 3-decade peak
🇨🇦 Trump pauses 50% Canada tariffs for 3 days on a pending deal
🤖 Unitree robot IPO soars ~542% in Shanghai (DeepSeek, Tencent back it)

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📊 Market Brief: long-end yields spike as the Iran ceasefire lapses.

📈 30-year Treasury yield hits ~5.3%, highest since 2007
🛳️ Hormuz nearly halts (3 ships Sunday); oil +2%, Brent ~$91
⚠️ Trump threatens Oman, won't extend the ceasefire

📩 Full brief: https://t.co/haahK8Egkp

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MarketCalls — Steve Alain Lawrence on AI, energy and rates:
🟢 “I see rates going higher. I don’t see a cut.” — on record
⛽ AI lifts energy prices — “you’ll see it at the pump”
📈 30Y UST today: 5.21% (Aug 13, 2026) — highest since 2001
📊 10Y UST: 4.63% | Fed funds: 3.63%

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📊 Market Brief: steady equities, a soft Japan print, a thinning oil buffer.

📈 S&P logs a third straight weekly gain
🇯🇵 Japan Q2 GDP +1.1% annualized, below the ~2% forecast
🛢️ U.S. oil reserve falls below 300m barrels, lowest since 1983

📩 Full brief: https://t.co/haahK8Egkp

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Market Brief: a cautious macro read; chips and energy in focus.

📊 July PPI seen +0.2%; retail sales next
🛢️ Hormuz transits down ~90%; Brent near $88
💾 Korea's Kospi enters a bull market (+20%); China's YMTC hits 14% NAND share, overtaking Micron

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📊 Market Brief: all eyes on July CPI.

📊 CPI seen +0.1% (core +0.2%); Sept hike odds near 50-50
⚡ CoreWeave Q2 revenue doubles to $2.58bn; backlog >$104bn
🇯🇵 Yen slips near 159 as the US-Japan yield gap (1.84 pts) persists

📩 Full brief: https://t.co/8zf9zzetvz

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