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Supply Chain·1d ago

Commerce Moves to Choke Off Polysilicon Stockpiling Before Section 232 Tariffs Land December 4

A temporary Commerce rule flags importers whose polysilicon volumes spike against their own trade history, turning three months of import data into a real-time filter ahead of new tariffs and minimum import prices.

Alex NavarroAlex Navarro·5 min read
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Commodities·14h ago

Hormuz at a Crawl: What Monday's Oil Open Is Pricing

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Macro·16h ago

Weekend Brief: Cash on Top at 5.18% as the 10-Year Clears a 2007 High

Commodities

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Commodities·14h ago

Hormuz at a Crawl: What Monday's Oil Open Is Pricing

One Hormuz transit versus an 85/day baseline, Trump's rejection of Iran's reopening offer, a Russian diesel ban expiring Wednesday, and a Ukraine payment cliff line up before Monday's open.

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    Russia's drone blockade has Odesa shut into January. Ukraine's grain exports just fell by half.

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    Gold gives back the conflict bid: $4,303 and the support lines that matter

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    WTI gave back 7.9% while the $89.60 distillate crack held: the tightness is in products, not crude

Macro

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Macro·16h ago

Weekend Brief: Cash on Top at 5.18% as the 10-Year Clears a 2007 High

Cash now earns real carry after the Fed's first hike since 2023, and a 5.18% 10-year, the highest since 2007, is repricing the whole risk stack before the August PCE gate.

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    Argentina's Senate Makes the BCRA Chief Easier to Remove Than the President

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    2d ago

    What the August PCE Report Means for the Fed's Next Move

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    Fed's First Hike Since 2023 Puts the 10-Year at 5.11%

Equities

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Equities·2d ago

Growth led, then the 5% 10-year took the floor: a rate-shock rotation under thin breadth

SPY closed Thursday up 0.72% at 767.18, but a 5% 10-year yield drove a rate-shock rotation under thin breadth ahead of the Sept 30 core PCE print.

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    Distribution beneath a resilient index: 23% breadth, rising yields, and the one sector bidding higher

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    Claims, PCE and Micron: Three Prints That Decide the Week

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    A record Nasdaq and a flat S&P 500: breadth is the tension

Crypto

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Crypto·2d agoworkspace_premium

ETF demand, not the squeeze, carried Bitcoin to $87,000

Bitcoin is back above $87,000 on more than $2 billion of fresh ETF creations this week. The durable-vs-one-time question is whether that bid outlasts the short squeeze that helped light it.

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    2d ago

    Ether ETFs pull in $270M in a sharp reversal as regulators build slowly

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    How a $15.9B quarterly expiry stalls a $1.7B ETF inflow week

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    3d ago

    Bitcoin slips under $84,000 as Treasury yields hit 2007 highs

Cost of Living

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Cost of Living·2d agoworkspace_premium

Mortgage Rates Hit 7.03 Percent and the Household Bill for Borrowing Just Stepped Up

Freddie Mac's September 24 survey put the 30-year fixed at 7.03 percent, the first time above 7 percent since January 2025, which adds $96 a month on a $350,000 loan versus July and lands on top of an August CPI that already had households paying 3.4 percent more than a year ago.

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    2d ago

    Gas Hits $4.48 for the First Time Since 2022, and This Is the Season It Usually Falls

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    3d ago

    Diesel Sets a New Record at $6.53 While Crude Slides. Your Groceries Don't Care About Crude.

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    The Fed Hiked to 4%. The 20.94% APR on Your Card Is About to Climb.

Housing

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Housing·2d agoworkspace_premium

New-Home Sales Cleared at 684,000 While the 30-Year Fixed Crossed 7 Percent

Builders moved 684,000 new homes in August and cut months of supply to 8.5, but the 30-year fixed at 7.03 percent adds $237 a month to the median payment since February and sets up a sub-4-million September.

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    2d ago

    New-Home Sales Climbed to 684,000 in August While Supply Thinned to 8.5 Months

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    Borrowers Are Trading Rate Risk for Payment Relief as Fixed Rates Hit 7.12 Percent

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    Mortgage Rates Hit 6.95 Percent and Locked-In Sellers Are Not Biting

Prediction Markets

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October Is Dead: Shutdown Odds Move to December on Kalshi

Kalshi's October 1 shutdown contract is dead at one cent, and the venue's new December 12 contract has slid from 46 to 28 cents in two days, moving the funding question to the winter window.

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    2d ago

    Kalshi Puts Anthropic First at 93 Cents After OpenAI Ruled Out a 2026 Listing

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    Kalshi Puts the October Fed Hike at Two Thirds and the December Ladder Agrees

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    October Hike Odds Jump 14 Points on the Barr Speech

AI Markets

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AI Markets·2d agoworkspace_premium

Oracle's Force Majeure Notice on Project Jupiter Is the AI Buildout's First Delay Clause

Oracle's September 24 notice on the $165 billion New Mexico Stargate campus lets it defer payments if power slips past 2028, and an $18 billion loan already trading at 89 to 91 cents shows lenders are pricing the delay too.

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    One Week of Memory Inventory Left Before Micron's Test

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    Korean Banks Step Into the AI Datacenter Debt Market

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    China's Survey of Broadcom Switches Puts a Number on the Networking Monopoly Beijing Wants Gone

Jobs & Labor

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The Unemployment Rate Fell to 4.1 Percent for the Worst Reason: Workers Vanished

The unemployment rate fell from 4.3 to 4.1 percent between May and August 2026, but the participation rate dropped 0.8 points to 61.6 over the same stretch, meaning the labor market tightened through people leaving the workforce rather than through hiring.

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    2d ago

    Median Job Tenure Rose to 4.1 Years. A Frozen Market Explains It.

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    Wage Growth Just Hit a Four-Year Low While Claims Sit at 196,000. Something Has to Give.

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    3d ago

    Tenure Data Lands Today, and a Frozen Labor Market Should Push the Median Up

Supply Chain

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Supply Chain·1d ago

Commerce Moves to Choke Off Polysilicon Stockpiling Before Section 232 Tariffs Land December 4

A temporary Commerce rule flags importers whose polysilicon volumes spike against their own trade history, turning three months of import data into a real-time filter ahead of new tariffs and minimum import prices.

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    Golden Week Blanks Hit 15, and Shanghai-LA Rates Still Rose 2%

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    Suez Transits Jump 17% and Asia-Europe Rates Break First

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    Supplier Delivery Times Just Had Their Worst Month Since July 2022, and Diesel Is Doing the Pushing

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