Two of the most powerful CFOs on the planet are running the same playbook this morning, and almost nobody has noticed. Sarah Friar at OpenAI just admitted to her board she is nervous her company can’t pay the $1.5 trillion it pledged in future compute spending, because revenue keeps missing targets. Scott Bessent at Treasury is busy dangling unlimited dollar liquidity to the UAE, Korea, and anyone else willing to keep holding greenbacks while America runs its war. Same architecture, different floor; promise tomorrow’s money to keep today’s buyers buying, and pray the music plays one more lap.

Difficult to connect the dots. Semis are up 18 sessions in a row, the SOX sits 50% above its 200-day average, a dislocation last seen at the dotcom peak in 2000, and the entire AI tape assumes Altman’s trillion-dollar pledge is bankable cash. Then Microsoft quietly tore up its OpenAI revenue share on the very day Friar’s panic leaked. The hyperscaler shareholders sit on their hands while the chip recipients fly. That gap tells you exactly who still believes the promise and who’s quietly stepping toward the door.

When confidence is the only collateral, every cracked syllable matters.

Below, as always, the rest of what’s cooking:

The Month-End Wall of Supply

Pension rebalancing into month-end now estimates roughly $24 billion in US equities for sale, one of the largest non-quarterly sell estimates Goldman has ever modelled. CTAs have stopped buying after adding around $170 billion globally this month. The mechanical bid that powered April’s melt-up just turned into a mechanical offer right as earnings risk peaks.

Microsoft Quietly Restructures Its OpenAI Bet

Microsoft amended its OpenAI deal Monday: no more revenue share paid to OpenAI, the license becomes non-exclusive, and OpenAI can ship products on any cloud. Translation: the company that knows OpenAI’s books better than anyone is rewriting the relationship the same week Sarah Friar’s funding panic leaked. When the closest partner steps back, pay attention.

The Capex Question Nobody Wants to Ask

Consensus already bakes in over $600 billion of 2026 capex across Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta. The trick: the market needs that number to keep going up, because flat capex with rising input costs effectively means a slowdown. If even one of the four hesitates Wednesday night, the entire AI infrastructure trade, semis, power, cooling, copper, gets repriced overnight.

Beijing Reaches Across Borders

China’s NDRC blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus on Monday, a deal that technically closed earlier this year between two non-Chinese companies. Manus had relocated to Singapore in 2025. Beijing’s message: jurisdiction over Chinese-origin technology follows the founders wherever they go. Every Chinese AI startup with global ambitions just received a chill warning ahead of next month’s Trump-Xi summit.

THE WEEK: A Blockbuster Collision

Prepare for a brutal convergence of macroeconomic catalysts. Every G7 central bank delivers a policy decision this week, colliding directly with earnings from mega-cap tech hyperscalers dictating the artificial intelligence narrative. Add Thursday’s critical core PCE inflation print and advance GDP metrics, and you have a perfect storm. Complacent markets remain entirely unprepared for any unexpected stagflationary surprises or sudden corporate spending hesitation.

Tactics for this Tape

Respect the AI trend, avoid chasing vertical semis, and keep protection cheap while volatility still behaves. Use defined-risk spreads, take profits quicker, and watch energy, dollar funding, and consumer stress for cracks. This tape rewards flexible positioning, sharp exits, and fewer heroic speeches in front of moving trains.

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TUESDAY TARGET: US Oil (USO)

Oil sits in the chop zone where both sides have too much to lose. Iran thinks it controls the chokepoint; the US thinks Iran’s storage is days from bursting. Goldman lifted Q4 Brent to $90, JPMorgan’s math says prices stay elevated to force the demand cuts no one wants.

The tape that hurts you is a sudden ceasefire crash or full escalation spike. The tape that pays you is the one we already have: choppy and range-bound between roughly $110 and $150 on USO.

The Egyptian Camel© sells rich front-month vol against cheaper back-month wings. You get paid for the stalemate while everyone else fights over which fairy tale ends first.

This is not an official trade entry, just food for thought. Official trade entries are posted in the Trade Alerts section. Over there, we relentlessly innovate and deliver novel setups.

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For four decades, the mullahs sold the same insurance policy to the world: mess with us, and we shut the Strait. Every pundit bought the pitch. Every energy strategist priced the premium. Every Western capital wrote it into their risk model. Then Iran pulled the trigger, and discovered the rope was tied to their own neck.

Run the numbers. 90% of Iran’s crude exports and 60% of its government revenues flow through that 21-mile stretch of water. Shut it down and Tehran bleeds over $300 million a day while Washington shrugs from a country that now outproduces Russia and Saudi combined as the world’s largest oil and LNG exporter. The chokepoint chokes its architect.

China, Iran’s loyal discount buyer, isn’t smiling either. Beijing was feasting on Iranian crude at $10-$12 a barrel below market, piping cheap sanctioned oil into its plastics machine. That pipe snapped. Now they’re paying Arabian Light premiums, their petrochemicals tethered to American ethane shipments, and gas at $5.60 a gallon against a $17k average wage. Xi arrives at the May summit with a losing hand.

Geography stayed the same. The leverage map got rewritten overnight.

Below, as always, the rest of what’s cooking:

The Streak Snapped

Nasdaq’s 13-session winning streak, the longest stretch since 1992, finally broke on Monday. Coincidence? Not when it pairs with call-volume records, dealer gamma flipping short on any further rally, and single-stock skew collapsing to multi-year lows. Streaks of this magnitude historically resolve higher over 12 months, but the near-term digestion phase could get messy.

Cook Walks, Ternus Inherits

Tim Cook steps aside September 1st. Under his reign, Apple’s market cap went from $350 billion to $4 trillion, a ten-bagger built on share buybacks while revenue barely four-bagged. John Ternus, a hardware lifer, now inherits a company coasting on brand prestige. Whether he actually innovates or simply keeps the repurchase authorization humming is the real test.

Wall Street’s Bull Trap Chorus

When Goldman’s John Flood, Rich Privorotsky, and BofA’s Michael Hartnett all publicly warn of a bull trap in the same week, contrarians start circling. The consensus bear call at market highs usually means the rally extends just enough to burn the late shorts before the real crack. Watch for a final melt-up squeeze into month-end rebalancing.

Retail’s Regulatory Rocket Fuel

FINRA just killed the $25,000 pattern day trading minimum, with SEC approval. Overnight, a huge swath of smaller accounts can day-trade without restriction. Retail favorites are having their best month since November 2020. The MEME ETF is up 56% off March lows. A structural tailwind hiding in plain sight, ignored by institutional desks still obsessed with their macro models.

Software’s Quiet Resurrection

Six weeks ago software was left for dead: AI disruption, margin compression, model commoditization. Last week’s 14% rally in the IGV suggests the obituary was premature. Goldman’s software analyst now argues AI Natives are expanding the total addressable market rather than replacing incumbents, occupying the white space between SaaS silos. The squeeze phase may fade. The re-rating phase could just be starting.

THE WEEK: Earnings Fire Up

Today headlines with March retail sales, Goldman pencils in a 1.0% headline jump mostly on gasoline distortion, alongside Kevin Warsh’s Senate confirmation hearing. Wednesday brings Tesla earnings and the ceasefire expiry. Thursday delivers global flash PMIs and jobless claims. Friday closes with the final UMich sentiment read and 5-10 year inflation expectations. Fed officials are in blackout ahead of next week’s FOMC. Every data point gets filtered through the rate-cut lens.

Tactics for this Tape

Stay flexible. Pair long tech-leadership exposure with cheap downside protection, implied volatility reset makes it affordable again. Trim the squeeze chasers, add patience.

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TUESDAY TARGET: AST SpaceMobile (ASTS)

Speculative play: when a failed rocket mission can’t even crack an elevated share price, the pain trade usually sits above, not below. The iron fly is the interesting route here, those two short 120 calls finance the structure and neutralize theta burn until roughly 30 days before expiration. You get paid to wait, risk is defined, and post-failure IV is still bid. Size it small in case it rolls over from here.

These trades are inspirational, not prescriptive. I’m not a directional trader, the goal is to showcase structures and strategies for different setups.

This is not an official trade entry, just food for thought. Official trade entries are posted in the Trade Alerts section. Over there, we relentlessly innovate and deliver more novel setups.

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Nine green days on the Nasdaq, the longest S&P win streak in months, and Goldman’s traders out there cheering that the worst is behind us. Cute. What those victory laps leave out is that nearly the entire bounce came from forced covering; over $43 billion of mechanical CTA buying and the largest weekly ETF short squeeze in a decade. Call that conviction if you like. It looks more like a fire drill where traders sprint back to their desks because the alarm stopped ringing.

Now peek under the hood of the earnings story that has everyone high-fiving. Consensus wants 12% S&P growth this quarter, the loudest headline in five years. Strip out two stocks and it collapses: Nvidia and Micron alone account for more than half of that number. The entire bull narrative rests on one concentrated semiconductor bet wearing a tuxedo.

The real tell sits in the basement. Next week, JPMorgan, Goldman, BofA, Barclays and Deutsche Bank start selling a brand-new credit default swap index that lets investors short private credit managers directly. The same banks that spent three years pitching private credit as the safest yield on earth are now manufacturing the instrument to bet against it. Meanwhile, the Fed has quietly started asking those same banks about their private credit exposure, and the Treasury is running the same drill with insurers. When the people who built the casino start handing out lifeboats, and selling you the blueprint of where the holes are, the only honest question is who’s buying that insurance, and why now.

Below, as always, the rest of what’s cooking:

Blockade as Negotiating Theater

Trump’s Hormuz blockade reads like escalation on the surface, yet the timing tells a different story. Launched at 10am New York time, calibrated to squeeze markets and Beijing simultaneously. Iran’s storage fills in roughly thirteen days, forcing well shut-ins and permanent damage. The goal seems clear: pressure China into leaning on Tehran before the barrels stop flowing entirely.

The $43 Billion Phantom Bid

Goldman’s models show trend-following funds set to buy $43 billion of US equities this week alone in a flat tape, one of the largest systematic demand figures on record. This is mechanical, rule-based covering after months of shorting. Treat it as a tailwind with an expiration date, because the moment price dips, those same algos flip from buyer to seller.

Main Street Is Screaming

The University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading just hit its lowest print in recorded history, worse than 2008, worse than Covid lockdowns, worse than the 1970s stagflation years. Meanwhile the S&P trades within 2% of all-time highs. The gap between how households feel and how portfolios look has never been wider, and gaps like this rarely stay open long.

Commodities as Portfolio Insurance

Roughly 80% of the Bloomberg commodity basket is directly or indirectly exposed to the Iran conflict. Supply shocks that raise inflation while dragging on growth hurt bonds and equities simultaneously. Commodities become the rare hedge that still works in that mix, which is why seasoned strategists keep flagging them as the trade of the second half of this decade.

Cheap Volatility at the Wrong Moment

The VIX collapsed back into the low 20s during the ceasefire rally, and QQQ implied volatility now looks cheap relative to realized moves. Dealers sit short upside gamma, meaning any squeeze higher forces them to chase. Hedges that cost a fortune two weeks ago trade at pre-conflict pricing again. This is precisely when smart money quietly restocks protection.

THE WEEK: Earnings Fire Up

First-quarter earnings officially kick off, with major banks like JPMorgan and Citi taking center stage. Wall Street expects these legacy institutions to project unshakeable consumer resilience. Meanwhile, critical macroeconomic data, led by U.S. producer prices, Chinese GDP, and ECB minutes, threatens to expose persistent cost pressures. Dozens of central bank speakers will also hit the microphones, aggressively attempting to verbally manage bond yields before their imminent blackout period begins.

Tactics for this Tape

Fade the edges, not the middle. Build longs on real pullbacks, add protection on rips while volatility is cheap. Stay close to AI infrastructure, trim anything that rallied purely on short-covering fumes.

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TUESDAY TARGET: Crude Oil Futures (/CLN6)

Brent crude July futures chop violently between $79 and $94 as geopolitical players engage in a massive staring contest. Headlines drive huge intraday swings, keeping oil volatility severely elevated compared to equity volatility. The market treats the conflict as a range-bound shock. Selling a slightly bearish Iron Condor capitalizes on this inflated fear premium. We collect a juicy credit by selling the extreme tail risks on both sides, allowing time decay to do the heavy lifting as the stalemate grinds sideways.

This is not an official trade entry, just food for thought. Official trade entries are posted in the Trade Alerts section. Over there, we relentlessly innovate and deliver more novel setups.

All our recent trades and the reasoning behind them can be found in the Trade Alerts section. Think of it as a behind-the-scenes look into our process, so you can decide if it’s worth adopting (or adapting) in your own strategy.

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Everybody is in the bunker waiting for the big one: the AI implosion, the war shock, the moment Wall Street finally pays for its sins. Meanwhile, the actual crash has been quietly clocking in for weeks, and almost nobody on TV has noticed. Mag7 multiples have been hacked from 31x to 24x since January. US tech now trades cheaper than European tech on a growth-adjusted basis, something I never thought I would type in this lifetime. Hedge fund exposure to the seven darlings sits at a three-year low, trend followers are near record shorts, and roughly $240 billion of equity length has been liquidated in a month. The bubble pundits keep warning about has been deflating in plain sight while they argue about whether it exists.

Now layer the war on top. Trump has moved his “final” Iran deadline three times in two weeks. Missile inventories are thin, escalation dominance has quietly shifted to Tehran, approval ratings are sinking faster than a Michael Saylor margin call, and the midterm map gets uglier with every dollar at the pump. The White House has maybe a month to find an exit before gasoline politics eats the second term.

Put it together and the contrarian read writes itself. The de-rating already happened, the war has a shot clock, and the only thing left to ignite is a squeeze higher when somebody pulls the trigger, Trump, a negotiator, or a CTA model flipping long. The bears spent a month preparing for an event that already occurred.

Below, as always, the rest of what’s cooking:

The Cybersecurity AI Premium

Integrating artificial intelligence into corporate networks introduces massive new vulnerabilities. Widespread AI agents frequently relax a little too much and create perfect entry points for sophisticated hackers. Companies entrusting critical network architecture to unproven models face unprecedented risks. Premium cybersecurity infrastructure just became exponentially more valuable, exposing a massive mispricing in heavily shorted software security stocks.

Retail Panic Feeds the Machine

Individual traders have abandoned buy-the-dip strategies. They are aggressively selling into rallies and heavily loading up on hyper expensive and inefficient inverse exchange-traded funds. This profound psychological shift provides the exact liquidity required for an institutional rally. Systematic funds are quietly absorbing these panic-driven sales, preparing to push the market higher while retail investors trap themselves in highly leveraged bearish positions.

Market Plumbing Overrides Narratives

Massive quarterly option collars dictate intraday price action far more than geopolitical headlines. When these giant positions expire, dealers are forced into mechanical buying to hedge their exposed books. This dynamic turns minor news events into explosive algorithmic short squeezes. Understanding expiration cycles and forced dealer flows provides a massive edge over traders trying to parse political posturing and (questionable) data.

Pricing the Imperial Deficit

Bank executives openly acknowledge the structural rot of massive sovereign deficits. Maintaining American military and economic supremacy requires continuous, massive debt issuance. Policymakers will inevitably rely on financial repression and stealth inflation to manage these overwhelming obligations. Investors must actively position their portfolios to benefit from permanent fiat debasement as historical fiscal discipline vanishes.

THE WEEK: Inflation’s Reality Check

Friday’s March CPI is the marquee event, with Deutsche Bank forecasting a 0.95% headline jump on a 25% surge in gasoline, pushing year-over-year to 3.4%. Core is seen at 0.28%. Thursday brings February PCE and Q4 GDP revision. Wednesday delivers FOMC minutes from the hawkish March meeting. Today features durable goods plus speeches from Goolsbee and Vice Chair Jefferson. And of course, Trump’s Iran deadline at 8pm.

Traditional Tactics for this Tape

Directional trading based on erratic geopolitical headlines practically guarantees wealth destruction. Confine your risk strictly to highly liquid instruments and systematically manage your gross equity allocations downward. To capture the massive upside convexity from trapped short-sellers and algorithmic forced buying, utilize defined-risk call spreads. Modern option strategies provide the perfect vehicle to exploit an impending market squeeze while completely insulating your core capital from sudden downside shocks.

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TUESDAY TARGET: Zscaler (ZS)

Ever wanted a supercar? There you have it. If catching the falling knife wasn’t enough, why not try racing it in a bulletproof, all-road Ferrari?

Stupid in-demand business, stupid cheap stock. Poking the bear without dying.

This is not an official trade entry, just food for thought. Official trade entries are posted in the Trade Alerts section. Over there, we relentlessly innovate and deliver more novel setups.

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Every legacy talking head is currently sweating through their tailored suits over triple-digit oil and a closed Strait of Hormuz, screaming about endless inflation and eternally hawkish central banks. Systematic trend-followers have eagerly fed the panic, aggressively dumping tens of billions in equities until their short positions hit absolute exhaustion. We have completely run out of marginal sellers. With algorithmic funds jammed on one side of the trade, the faintest whisper of diplomatic relief will ignite a face-ripping, forced squeeze higher. The human ape loves to bet on infinite doom right as the rubber band stretches to its absolute limit.

To understand the actual mechanics, look at the bond market. Yields recently took a sudden dive alongside spiking crude prices. Smart money in fixed income has already looked past the immediate energy shock. They clearly see the incoming demand destruction and know exactly how governments react to real economic pain. Terrified politicians will inevitably unleash massive fiscal stimulus to bail out a stalling economy. The printing press always gets the final word, providing a guaranteed safety net for risk assets and completely catching the inflation-obsessed bears off guard.

Then we have the ultimate geopolitical irony. Western pundits blindly assume this energy crisis guarantees a synchronized global catastrophe. Over in Asia, Beijing remains quietly insulated. Thanks to a massive renewable energy base and a highly pragmatic embrace of domestic coal, China boasts a remarkably low dependency on imported oil. Surging global commodity prices are effortlessly curing their prolonged deflation and boosting corporate profit margins. Western economies will gladly foot the bill for the geopolitical chaos, while the East quietly reaps the macroeconomic rewards. Panic always creates mispricing, and maybe everybody is looking in the completely wrong direction.

Below, as always, the rest of what’s cooking:

Private Credit’s Gated Purgatory

Legacy media constantly compares today’s private credit stress to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. The mechanics differ entirely. Private funds possess the legal authority to gate redemptions, actively preventing a systemic liquidity spiral. Investors simply face a multi-year waiting game. Capital remains trapped while the underlying assets slowly deteriorate away from public view, neutralizing the threat of instantaneous market-wide contagion.

Coal’s Unapologetic Resurgence

Institutional compliance departments actively avoid coal investments due to strict environmental mandates. Pragmatic nations facing severe natural gas shortages are completely ignoring those rules and firing up coal plants for pure survival. This creates a massive, highly profitable pricing floor for thermal coal producers globally. Unsentimental investors can quietly accumulate positions in this structurally essential, chronically under-owned energy sector.

The Grind-Lower Volatility Trap

Anxious investors are heavily overpaying for standard crash protection options. Markets currently suffer from a slow, grinding descent. Volatility dynamics rely entirely on the pace of the decline. This agonizingly slow bleed renders expensive, path-dependent downside hedges completely useless. Patient traders can easily exploit this widespread misunderstanding of options pricing by utilizing intelligent spread strategies designed for sustained downward pressure.

Deep Value in Forgotten Sectors

The relentless focus on geopolitical headlines has pushed previously beloved sectors into deep-value territory. Premium spirits companies and legacy payment processors have seen their valuations completely decimated. These cash-rich businesses now resemble the highly profitable, unloved tobacco trades of the past decade. Patient allocators can secure generational entry points while the broader market panics over energy and semiconductor momentum.

THE WEEK: Blindfolded on Good Friday

This shortened week forces markets through a brutal macroeconomic minefield. Today’s consumer confidence data will expose the immediate psychological damage of the Iran conflict. Tomorrow brings ADP payrolls and ISM Manufacturing, revealing exactly how fast surging oil is suffocating the real economy. The ultimate test arrives on Good Friday with Nonfarm Payrolls, dropping into a closed equity market and guaranteeing massive, unpredictable gap-risk when trading finally resumes.

Traditional Tactics for this Tape

Abandon the blind dip-buying reflex. Capitalize on current algorithmic selling exhaustion to offload overvalued technology names during violent relief rallies. Rotate aggressively into physical AI bottlenecks, energy producers, and defensive compounders. Utilize intelligent option spreads to exploit a slow, grinding market descent. Stop overpaying for popular outright crash protection. Preserve high cash reserves to deploy when forced liquidations finally create undeniable, generational discounts across the broader market.

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TUESDAY TARGET: NextEra Energy (NEE)

Rotate into the actual physical constraints of the AI revolution: base-load power generation and liquid cooling infrastructure. Running advanced data centers requires unprecedented electricity, setting up a historic earnings super-cycle for utility companies.

An 170-day Call Debit Spread on NextEra Energy (NEE). Sidestep the bursting tech valuation risk and position yourself in stable, defensive compounders offering decent asymmetrical upside disguised as boring defensive plays.

This is not an official trade entry, just food for thought. Official trade entries are posted in the Trade Alerts section. Over there, we relentlessly innovate and deliver more novel setups.

All our recent trades and the reasoning behind them can be found in the Trade Alerts section. Think of it as a behind-the-scenes look into our process, so you can decide if it’s worth adopting (or adapting) in your own strategy.

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When a geopolitical artery like the Strait of Hormuz clamps shut, everyone predictably stampedes into crude oil and defense stocks. We leave those crowded sandboxes to the amateurs. Real wealth comes from tracking the second-order dominoes quietly fracturing the global plumbing.

Look at the spectacular dive in gold. Middle Eastern producers have millions of barrels trapped at the docks. To generate immediate dollar liquidity, they are aggressively unloading their massive physical gold reserves. Sovereign whales eagerly absorb those bricks at a decent discount while retail speculators bleed out in leveraged paper bets.

This gridlock stretches directly into the AI bubble. Recent strikes on Qatari infrastructure sidelined a third of the global helium supply. Semiconductor foundries absolutely depend on this noble gas to cool their silicon wafers. The trillion-dollar tech revolution might genuinely stumble over a balloon gas trapped in a war zone.

The chaos also creates highly asymmetric setups in agriculture. Surging crude provides a massive financial incentive for Brazilian mills to crush sugarcane into highly profitable ethanol. Combine this with stranded Gulf fertilizer shipments, and a historic sugar deficit quietly brews under the radar.

Below, as always, the rest of what’s cooking:

China’s Blockade Vulnerability

Washington prepares for the upcoming trade summit holding an unprecedented structural advantage over Beijing. The ultimate leverage lies entirely within the blocked shipping lanes. With eighty percent of the oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz heading directly to Chinese ports, their economy is quietly starving for energy. This desperate physical necessity forces China into a highly vulnerable position, handing American negotiators immense geopolitical power.

The Big Gamma Bailout

Pundits credit sudden diplomatic tweets for stabilizing equities. The mechanical reality runs much deeper. The market was barreling directly toward a massive put collar strike at 6,450. Breaching that specific threshold would have unleashed brutal negative gamma selling by options dealers. The perfectly timed headline effectively saved the derivatives market from a catastrophic forced-selling spiral, triggering an immediate short squeeze regardless of the underlying truth.

Stealth Fiscal Monetization

The central bank continues its ongoing balance sheet expansion to maintain adequate banking reserves. A looming two hundred billion dollar war funding request and severe stress in the Treasury market significantly compound this situation. These gradual liquidity injections act as a stealth mechanism to quietly monetize soaring wartime fiscal deficits. Sustained energy spikes and massive government borrowing require constant intervention to prevent systemic financial freezes.

THE WEEK: Rearview Metrics in a Live-Fire World

Mainstream analysts will frantically parse this week’s global flash PMIs and final consumer sentiment readings. We view this as navigating a minefield using a rearview mirror. While these metrics capture the blockade’s initial shock, the only data point that truly matters involves long-term inflation expectations. Scheduled central bank speakers will undoubtedly maintain a highly restrictive posture, focusing entirely on sticky price dynamics regardless of stalling global economic growth.

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