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“All eyes will remain on the Fed for now and how Kevin Warsh will handle the competing pressures from rising inflation and the prospect of lower energy inflation once the Strait of Hormuz reopens”
"… but history does tend to rhyme..."
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Details of the deal show that Cursor shareholders will receive SpaceX Class A common stock.
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The market is not expected to recover to the record levels of 2023 anytime in the next decade...
A demonstration of several thousand people took place in Rome on Saturday to advocate for remigration and stricter controls on immigration...
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SPCX has added $650 billion in market cap today...
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91 percent of people surveyed in 32 countries said that their diet contained meat...
“Any recovery in Chinese oil demand - particularly if energy flows remain constrained - could tighten global energy markets, reignite inflation pressures and complicate the task facing central banks”
Korean regulators and banks are cracking down on local borrowers who are using overdraft loans (similar to using a credit card) to buy stocks... and Goldman is starting to be worried that the music is about to end.
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Most countries at the top of the ranking border major conflict zones, highlighting how geography shapes refugee flows...
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Two additional health zones in Congo are now affected, authorities say.
Høiby insisted he was "not in the habit of having sex with women who are asleep."
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How certain social media schemes to improve the European condition are unlikely to succeed...
...not Israel!
...good guys with guns?
Korea's AI frenzy is creating one of the most extreme market structure setups in the world. Leveraged ETFs have exploded, options markets are pricing extraordinary moves and dealer hedging flows have become large enough to influence the underlying market itself, leaving a spectacular rally increasingly dependent on leverage, volatility and mechanical feedback loops.
Gold may be one catalyst away from exploding higher. Weak hands have been flushed out, CTA models remain short, investors are aggressively bidding for downside protection and upside exposure has rarely looked this cheap, leaving gold coiled between key technical levels with the ingredients for a violent breakout move falling into place.
The risk-on machine keeps rolling. Semiconductors are ripping, hedge funds remain all-in on AI, tech volatility is behaving in ways we rarely see, and the 1997 analogy continues to track with uncanny precision. Whether this is the start of something bigger or simply another squeeze, risk appetite remains remarkably resilient.
Tech volatility remains unusually elevated. Despite the NASDAQ trading back near all-time highs, the VXN remains well bid, the VXN/VIX ratio continues exploding higher, and investors are still paying a substantial premium for tech risk.
Markets are going nowhere fast, but the journey has rarely been this violent. Semiconductors, Korea, leveraged ETFs and tech volatility are all flashing the same message: beneath the surface, market structure is becoming increasingly unstable. Volatility is no longer just a symptom of the market. It is becoming the story, and right now, it is screaming for attention.
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