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Trump Threatens 'Crushing Economic Operation' Against Iran as Precious Metals Spike

Gold and silver stage a mid-week surge, sending Wheaton Precious Metals up 11%, as fresh White House escalation against Tehran injects a geopolitical risk premium into commodity markets with policy details still undisclosed.

President Trump's announcement of an unspecified 'crushing economic operation' targeting Iran drove a sharp bid into precious metals, lifting streamers and miners. Wheaton Precious Metals jumped 11% while DRDGOLD reported Q4 results into a strengthening bullion tape.

BREAKING STORYBULLISH
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Treasury Liquidity Support Drives Yields Lower as Market Focus Shifts to the Long End

US Treasury yields fell after the department offered liquidity support, sharpening investor attention on issuance strategy at the back end of the curve and the duration risk premium heading into the next refunding cycle.

Treasury yields dropped following a liquidity support offer from the Treasury, a technical intervention that reset the front end of the curve while strategists turned to the more consequential question of how the department manages back-end issuance. The move eases financing conditions across risk assets but leaves the structural duration supply overhang intact.

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Treasury Leans Into the Long End as Debt Burden Moves From Abstraction to Household Cost

Increased official buying of long-dated Treasuries stabilises the curve's far reaches, but the fiscal arithmetic behind the intervention is reshaping mortgage, credit and equity duration assumptions

The U.S. Treasury has increased its purchases of long-dated securities, a technical intervention aimed at containing volatility at the far end of the curve. The move arrives alongside intensifying scrutiny of the federal debt trajectory and its pass-through into consumer borrowing costs, keeping duration risk at the centre of 2026 asset allocation debates.

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Bond Selloff Cools but Equities Wobble as RBA Flags Hike Risk

Global duration finds tentative footing after a punishing stretch, yet risk assets remain unsettled as Reserve Bank of Australia's Hauser warns policy could tighten again if inflation risks crystallise.

The intensity of the global bond selloff has eased, but equity markets are struggling to convert stabilising yields into conviction. RBA Deputy Governor Hauser's explicit warning that rates could rise again if inflation risks materialise underscores that the developed-market easing narrative is no longer one-directional.

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Trump Pauses 50% Canada Tariff Threat as Ottawa Talks Near Deal

White House holds off on punitive duties on select Canadian goods, citing an imminent agreement — a de-escalation that removes a near-term overhang for North American supply chains but leaves the tariff mechanism intact as leverage.

President Trump has paused the planned 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, saying a trade deal is close. The reprieve eases a key cross-border risk premium, though the administration retains the option to reimpose duties, keeping industrial, auto and materials supply chains on alert.

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Global Bond Rout Deepens as Long-End Yields Breach Crisis-Era Benchmarks

US debt supply moves to center stage Wednesday with 10y10y forwards above 2008 peaks, forcing equity investors to reprice the discount rate underpinning risk assets

A synchronized selloff across sovereign bond markets has pushed long-dated forward yields above 2008 highs, shifting focus to the cost of financing America's expanding debt pile. Strategists warn the equity market is increasingly assuming the disciplining function historically performed by the bond market.

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Rising Treasury Yields Test Equity Resilience as Dollar Firms in Narrow Ranges

Strategists say the 10-year yield's climb has yet to reach the pain threshold that historically triggers a broad equity de-rating, even as the dollar grinds higher and duration-sensitive dividend names come under scrutiny.

Equities continue to absorb an upward drift in long-end Treasury yields, with Strategas arguing the ascent must go considerably further before it forces a selloff. A mostly firmer but range-bound dollar and renewed focus on dividend sustainability across telecoms, REITs and payments underscore a market repricing duration rather than direction.

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Six Years, One Wall of Worry: Anatomy of the Strongest Run Since the Late 1990s

The current bull market has absorbed a pandemic, the fastest tightening cycle in four decades and multiple geopolitical shocks — yet delivered the best cumulative return in over 25 years, reframing the cost of tactical caution.

Equities have posted their strongest multi-year advance in more than a quarter-century despite a relentless sequence of macro shocks, sharpening the case that time in the market has dominated attempts to time it.

SPECIAL REPORTBULLISH
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Canada Faces 50% US Tariffs on $20 Billion of Goods as Bond Market Waits on Fed Minutes

Treasury yields hold in a tight range ahead of the FOMC record while a sharp escalation in North American trade friction and renewed pressure on Iran keep the geopolitical risk premium elevated.

Canada is bracing for 50% US tariffs covering roughly $20 billion in goods, a material escalation in North American trade friction with direct implications for cross-border industrials, autos and materials. Treasury yields held steady as investors deferred positioning until the release of Federal Reserve minutes, leaving duration effectively unhedged against a tariff-driven inflation impulse. European bourses were mixed to lower, with Poland's WIG30 down 1.26% and Turkey's BIST 100 off 0.28%, while Tehran's leadership weighed the risk of further economic pain and domestic unrest if Washington tightens sanctions pressure.

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Goldman Sees Fed on Hold in September as Dollar Stabilizes and S&P 500 Prints Record

Wall Street's base case shifts to a no-move September barring a dramatic data surprise, with the greenback's slide moderating into North American hours and equities grinding to fresh highs before futures softened.

Goldman Sachs expects the Federal Reserve to stand pat at its September meeting absent an outsized data shock, anchoring rate expectations at a moment when the S&P 500 has already registered an all-time high. The dollar has extended losses but is stabilizing, and Monday futures slipped modestly — a pattern consistent with positioning fatigue rather than a change in macro regime.

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Micron Clears $1,000 as AI Memory Trade Broadens; Nvidia Trims OpenAI Ohio Backstop to $120 Billion

Memory pricing power lifts Micron into four-digit territory even as Nvidia's reduced guarantee on the OpenAI Ohio data center campus signals a more disciplined phase of AI infrastructure financing.

Micron's move above $1,000 per share underscores how the AI buildout has migrated from GPUs into the memory and interconnect layers of the stack. Simultaneously, Nvidia's decision to cut its guarantee tied to OpenAI's Ohio data center to $120 billion points to tighter vendor-financing discipline, a swing factor for the credit assumptions underpinning hyperscale capex. Blackstone's positioning as an AI infrastructure landlord and copper's squeeze-level pricing reinforce that the trade is now as much about physical inputs and financing structures as it is about silicon.

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Futures Idle as Wall Street Waits for the Fed — and Watches the Warsh Succession Trade

Stock-index futures were little changed into the new week as investors weigh the policy path, with strategists now openly pricing leadership risk at the Federal Reserve.

U.S. equity futures were broadly flat following a quiet week, with positioning frozen ahead of clearer signals on the Fed's rate trajectory. Commentary around a potential Warsh-led Fed is injecting an institutional-credibility variable into rates markets alongside conventional data dependency.

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Smart Money Splinters on Nvidia as AI Capex Cycle Approaches $600 Billion

Tepper adds, Loeb exits entirely and Soros buys puts, exposing a widening institutional divide over whether hyperscaler capital spending is a durable earnings engine or a late-cycle peak.

Divergent positioning among high-profile investors in Nvidia — accumulation, full liquidation and outright put buying — highlights unresolved disagreement over the sustainability of AI infrastructure spending, even as Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft commit close to $600 billion in capital expenditure.

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September Fed Hike Odds Collapse to 25% as Betting Markets Diverge From Rate Strategists

Prediction-market pricing for a September tightening has plunged, but analysts warn positioning is vulnerable to a hawkish repricing if broadening earnings strength pressures the inflation path

Implied odds of a September Federal Reserve rate hike have fallen to roughly 25%, a sharp dovish repricing that some strategists argue is complacent. With corporate earnings growth broadening beyond technology and financials positioned as beneficiaries, the risk of a hawkish surprise is being underpriced.

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Retail Earnings Set to Deliver Verdict on the American Consumer

Walmart and Target results this week become the market's cleanest read on household resilience as persistent inflation, food-aid cuts and softening data surprises converge on the demand outlook.

Investors are positioning ahead of Walmart and Target earnings, viewed as the definitive checkpoint on U.S. consumer health. The reports land alongside a run of downside macro data surprises pressuring the dollar's momentum and mounting political friction over federal food-assistance reductions.

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German Corporate Capital Retreats From US as Policy Uncertainty Bites

German direct investment into the United States fell to a three-year low, according to fresh data, as tariff volatility and regulatory unpredictability push Europe's largest industrial base to defer American expansion plans.

German companies cut US investment to the lowest level in three years, a signal that transatlantic capital flows are being re-priced around policy risk rather than fundamentals.

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Active Management Verdict: Only 13% of US Large-Cap Funds Beat Benchmarks Over a Decade

New performance data renews pressure on the stock-picking industry as fee compression, index dominance and concentrated mega-cap leadership compound the hurdle for discretionary managers.

Just 13% of US large-cap stock-picking funds outperformed their benchmarks over the past ten years, according to the latest scorecard data. The result intensifies the secular flow shift toward passive vehicles and sharpens scrutiny of expense ratios across the fund complex.

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XRP Slides Toward the Dollar Mark as Digital Asset Risk Appetite Deteriorates

The token trades near a 52-week low around $1 with analysts arguing valuation remains unattractive even after the drawdown, signalling continued unwinding of speculative crypto positioning

XRP is trading near a 52-week low of approximately $1, with commentary suggesting the asset may not represent value even at that level. The decline reflects broader risk-off dynamics in digital assets and stands in contrast to resilient equity index levels.

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Passive Concentration Risk Moves From Footnote to Front Page as Anti-AI ETF Launches

A new fund built around engines, trucks and air conditioning equipment arrives as analysts warn that S&P 500 index ownership has become a concentrated, undiversified wager on artificial intelligence capital spending

The debut of an explicitly anti-AI ETF weighted toward industrial hardware coincides with intensifying commentary that broad index funds now function as leveraged AI proxies. The launch signals emergent institutional demand for hedges against a single dominant factor exposure embedded in default retirement allocations.

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AI Credit Complex Draws Scrutiny as Nvidia Weighs $3 Billion SB Energy Stake

Chipmaker's move deeper into power infrastructure for OpenAI data centers lands as bond desks tally roughly $70 billion in undisclosed credit backstops supporting the AI buildout

Nvidia is in talks to invest about $3 billion in SB Energy as part of an OpenAI data center arrangement, extending the chipmaker's practice of financing its own demand chain. Simultaneously, fixed-income investors are struggling to price an estimated $70 billion of shadow credit backstops tied to AI-related borrowers, raising questions about circularity and hidden leverage in the buildout.

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