Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest...

The key economic data releases this week are the CPI on Tuesday, PPI on Wednesday, and Retail Sales on Thursday. We also have the US-Iran summit, and several prominent companies complete the tail end of earnings (until Nvidia next week). 

Iranian parliament declares "restraint has come to an end."

"...people are frustrated by the state of Britain, frustrated by politics, and some people frustrated with me,..."

Senator urges a ‘better way forward’ as he blasts party extremes...

“The market melt-up driven by robust earnings, AI enthusiasm and hopes for a short-lived energy shock faces a tougher test in the week ahead,”

...the bigger issue right now is a lack of memory, not a lack of oil...hence equity market resilience...

"There is cause for concern here that goes beyond hardware cost..." 

There was no official explanation... 

Nobody owns enough China tech if this breakout starts sticking. HSTECH is pushing into the massive downtrend just as earnings, AI momentum, and the Trump–Xi meeting line up as potential catalysts.

Just as it faces an annual hurricane season and tornado season, North America is also experiencing an annual “fireball season,” according to NASA.../

"Consumers don’t buy crude oil - they buy fuels."

...two major events lie on the horizon: monthly OPEX on May 15, and Nvidia earnings on May 20...

...we're gonna been a bigger bucket!

Record inflows to cash, declining hedge fund leverage, but exploding gamma and skew comparable to post-election Dec 2024 euphoria.

US President Trump rejected Iran's response to the peace plan, which he called totally unacceptable.

At least 60 media professionals were killed in 2025 due to their journalistic activities...

Goldman options desk: "Broad AI has rallied significantly and we see clients looking at momentum unwind short-term hedges"

...concerns that the explosion in issuance has bubble-like characteristics similar to that of telecoms in the early 2000s or energy in 2015 to 2017

...the strongest passports offer access to 5x more countries than the weakest.