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- BREAKING STORYBULLISHTrump Threatens 'Crushing Economic Operation' Against Iran as Precious Metals Spike
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 STORYBULLISHTreasury Liquidity Support Drives Yields Lower as Market Focus Shifts to the Long End
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTNEUTRALTreasury Leans Into the Long End as Debt Burden Moves From Abstraction to Household Cost
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.
- BREAKING STORYBEARISHBond Selloff Cools but Equities Wobble as RBA Flags Hike Risk
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTNEUTRALTrump Pauses 50% Canada Tariff Threat as Ottawa Talks Near Deal
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTBEARISHGlobal Bond Rout Deepens as Long-End Yields Breach Crisis-Era Benchmarks
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTNEUTRALRising Treasury Yields Test Equity Resilience as Dollar Firms in Narrow Ranges
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTBULLISHSix Years, One Wall of Worry: Anatomy of the Strongest Run Since the Late 1990s
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.
- BREAKING STORYBEARISHCanada Faces 50% US Tariffs on $20 Billion of Goods as Bond Market Waits on Fed Minutes
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTNEUTRALGoldman Sees Fed on Hold in September as Dollar Stabilizes and S&P 500 Prints Record
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTBULLISHMicron Clears $1,000 as AI Memory Trade Broadens; Nvidia Trims OpenAI Ohio Backstop to $120 Billion
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.
- SPECIAL REPORTNEUTRALFutures Idle as Wall Street Waits for the Fed — and Watches the Warsh Succession Trade
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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