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Why Is the Strait of Hormuz Still Empty?

The US-Iran ceasefire is five weeks old, yet only 10 tankers a day transit a strait that used to see 130 — and war-risk premiums are rising, not falling. The physical market is pricing a structural premium the equity market refuses to believe.

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Why the Lowest Layoffs Since 1969 Are Bad News

Jobless claims just fell to 187,000 — the fewest since 1969. It isn't strength. The labor market has frozen solid: nobody fired, nobody hired, nobody quitting — and the bill lands on wages, new graduates, and the consumer economy.

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Whose Money Is Holding Up the Peso?

Argentina just posted record $49.5 billion reserves in the same month the peso hit its weakest level ever. Most of that money is borrowed — and the second half of 2026 tests whether the best EM trade of the decade survives its own plumbing.

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Europe Froze Russia's Reserves. The Blowback Is Landing in Brussels.

€190 billion of Russian money sits in one Brussels vault. The fight over whether to spend it has quietly become a solvency-and-credibility crisis for Euroclear — and a live repricing of what it costs the world to keep its reserves in the West.

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America's Most Expensive Storms Don't Have Names

Hurricanes get the headlines. But hail and thunderstorms in the middle of the country now cost insurers more than any other disaster — and they're quietly repricing homeownership from Texas to North Dakota.

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Who Pays for a Cure That Only Happens Once?

Biotech cracked the science of curing genetic disease in a single dose. America's insurance system, built to pay for drugs by the month, can't handle a $3 million bill that arrives once — and that mismatch, not the biology, is now the real constraint on the cure economy.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Friday, July 24: An Oil Shock Meets an AI-Spending Scare

Ten long setups for a rotation day: crude has ripped 36% on the Red Sea, tech is unwinding on AI-capex fear, and a wall of Friday earnings hits before the bell. The catalysts, the pre-market levels, and the triggers we're watching.

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How Three Companies Won the Streaming Wars — by Rebuilding Cable

The cord-cutting era promised cheaper, unbundled, ad-free TV. It ended in an oligopoly. Netflix and Disney own the pricing power; Paramount Skydance bought Warner to force its way into the third seat. Here's who won — and how to trade a war that's already over.

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Nvidia Just Prepaid Amkor (AMKR) $1.5 Billion for AI Packaging — Three Days Before Earnings. Here's What Monday Has to Prove.

Nvidia's $1.5B prepayment neutralized Amkor's biggest bear thesis and re-rated an OSAT into an AI stock overnight. But the revenue doesn't hit the P&L until 2028 — and Q2 earnings land Monday. The prepayment mechanics and three scenario price zones.

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Japan's Bond Market Is 60 Basis Points From a Forced-Selling Spiral

Japan's life insurers were the structural backstop for the world's most important suppressed-rate market. They just flipped to sellers — and a single yield level near 4.5% turns their selling reflexive.

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The Last Trophy Asset Just Went Institutional

Private equity spent eighteen months buying into NFL, NBA, and MLB franchises. Then KKR paid $1.4 billion for the firm doing the buying. The trophy is now an asset class — and the alpha has already moved.

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America Is About to Tariff Its Own Medicine Cabinet

On July 31, Trump's Section 232 tariffs hit the world's most globalized supply chain. Big Pharma bought its way out with $480B in pledges. The generic industry — 90% of America's prescriptions — can't.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Thursday, July 23: Capex on Trial

The deepest day of Q2 earnings puts one question on trial: is the spending working? Alphabet and Tesla fall on capex, the defense primes beat and raise, copper prints a record, and Intel answers tonight. Ten names to watch, ranked by catalyst.

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Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) Just Guided Q3 EBITDA to Double on a $5.2 Billion Quarter. The Stock Is a Levered Bet on One Number. Here's the Distribution.

Cleveland-Cliffs jumped 9% on a quarter where it still lost money — because for a $7.7B-levered, 2.13-beta steelmaker, the Q3 guide to double EBITDA is the whole trade. The leverage math, the EBITDA bridge, and three scenario price zones.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Wednesday, July 22: Big Tech Earnings Night

Alphabet, Tesla, Texas Instruments, and IBM all report after the close tonight — while Super Micro's $60B AI backlog and rising oil set the premarket tone. The ten names we're watching into the open, ranked by catalyst.

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For the First Time in Fifty Years, the New House Is the Cheap One

For the first time in five decades, a new home is cheaper than an existing one. Builder rate-buydowns engineered the discount; rate-locked boomers froze the resale market. The inversion nobody outside the industry is watching.

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Low Earth Orbit Just Got Too Expensive to Insure

The CRASH clock fell from 121 days to five. As LEO fills with 54,000 tracked objects, the space insurance market is repricing faster than the satellites can adapt — and the money is moving to whoever can track the traffic.

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America Is Racing a November Deadline for the Metal Behind Every Bullet

China's ban on antimony, gallium, and germanium was lifted only until November 27, 2026. The race to reshore the metal behind every bullet is one of the year's most under-priced trades.

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China Pharma (CPHI) Ran 790% in a Day on $168,000 of Cash. The Float Math Is the Whole Story. Here's the Distribution.

China Pharma (CPHI) spiked ~790% in one session on no catalyst, turning over its entire share count twice in a day. The company holds $168,474 in cash and has grown its share count 12-fold in 15 months. The float math, the shelf that lets them sell into the spike, and three scenario price zones.

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Michael Burry Is Buying the Sportsbooks Wall Street Gave Up On

Michael Burry just went long DraftKings and Flutter — the two stocks the market left for dead on the bet that prediction markets win permanently. His wager is that Washington closes the loophole first. Here's the trade, and the one court ruling that breaks it.

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Copper Hit a Record. Now Its Biggest Customers Are Designing It Out.

Record copper prices were supposed to reward the shortage trade. Instead they crossed the line where automakers and utilities re-engineer the metal out — while the smelters in the middle collapse on zero-dollar fees. The consensus is long the thing that ends the move.

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Wall Street Just Reinsured Your Retirement in Bermuda

Americans are buying guaranteed retirement income at a record pace. The insurers writing those guarantees have quietly moved $2 trillion of the risk into private-equity-owned offshore reinsurers — and in 2026, regulators finally started forcing it into the open.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Tuesday, July 21

A risk-on tape led by a crypto-and-compute melt-up runs straight into the heaviest earnings stretch of the summer: Tesla and Alphabet report tomorrow night, Intel Thursday. Ten names, ranked by how dated the catalyst is.

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IREN (IREN) Just Sold 85% of a $4 Billion Run-Rate. The Gap Between ARR and Revenue Is the Whole Trade. Here's the Distribution.

IREN raised its year-end AI Cloud run-rate target above $4B with 85% under contract and jumped nearly 20% — but ARR is not GAAP revenue. The share count, the convertible stack, and three scenario zones behind a $14B cap.

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Did Europe Just Give Up on Carbon Pricing?

Brussels just slowed its own carbon market and widened the carbon tax at its border. The headlines say climate retreat. The money says the cost of carbon is moving from European factories to everyone who sells into them.