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Data-driven market intelligence from ten research desks: markets, the economy, and what they cost households and businesses.

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Commodities

Ust-Luga port strike: what a hit to Russia's Baltic export hub means for crude, product cracks and the shadow fleet

Monitoring channels reported a Ukrainian strike on Russia's Ust-Luga Baltic export hub overnight Nov 10-11, a claim Russian officials had not confirmed as of writing. Ust-Luga is the sanctioned crude-and-condensate and product loading point for the Baltic, so a hit there is an export-capacity event with crack and shadow-fleet-loading implications.

David Morales smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 11, 202638 MIN READ

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Supply Chain

Diesel prices fall to $6.13 a gallon as the freight-fuel spike rolls over

The EIA weekly on-highway diesel print for the week of Nov 9 fell 2.6 percent week over week to $6.127 a gallon, the lowest since early September, breaking the month-long plateau that refinery outages and war-risk premia had propped up.

Sofia Almeida smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 11, 20264 MIN READ

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Emerging Tech

X-Energy Construction Permit Clears NRC for Dow's Texas SMRs

The NRC approved X-energy's construction permit for four Xe-100 reactors at Dow's Seadrift, Texas site, the first advanced nuclear approval for an industrial plant and the first high-temperature gas-cooled reactor permit in nearly 60 years.

Aisha Rahman smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 11, 20264 MIN READ

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SecurityboltSpecial Coverage

CISA KEV adds six exploited flaws, names Microsoft Outlook, Chromium, BroadWorks

CISA added six exploited CVEs to its KEV catalog Nov 10. Microsoft Outlook, Google Chromium and Cisco BroadWorks face Nov 24 deadlines; a Barracuda pair is due Nov 13.

Tomas Lindqvist smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 11, 20264 MIN READ

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Equities

Nvidia slides but the AI trade rallies: why the decoupling is a breadth win

Nvidia fell about 4% Monday on a board investigation into CEO Jensen Huang, yet the Nasdaq and the wider AI complex rallied as leadership rotated into AMD and software. A smaller single-weight drag is the kind of breadth-positive event a concentrated index needs.

James Nakamura smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 11, 20264 MIN READ

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Commodities

Oil Prices Falling: Why Iran Risk Eased and Gas May Follow

The next strike looks less likely, but the blockade remains. Why crude can move in hours while the gasoline price moves on another clock.

David Morales smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 11, 202613 MIN READ

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AI Markets

Anthropic IPO Valuation Explained: What $1.4T Tests

A $70 to $78 roadshow range is not a final price. Here is the share-count math, cash split and market test behind the $1.4 trillion headline.

Lena Fischer smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 10, 202612 MIN READ

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AI Markets

SoftBank Q2 Loss Tops $7 Billion on Data Center Power Write-Off

SoftBank swung to its first quarterly net loss in almost two years, and the $7 billion miss traces to how the AI buildout is funded, from reserved power equipment to an Intel hedge, rather than to demand.

Lena Fischer smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 10, 20265 MIN READ

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Crypto

NYSE Picks Avalanche as Core Ledger for Tokenized-Securities Platform

The NYSE-affiliated tokenized-stocks platform picked Avalanche to run its core ledger, pairing the exchange's Pillar matching engine with on-chain settlement. The choice is a structural endorsement of open settlement rails for 24/7, stablecoin-funded trading in U.S. stocks and ETFs.

Priya Kapoor smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 10, 20264 MIN READ

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Supply Chain

Five shadow-fleet tankers OFAC just named: what a false flag does to their insurance

Treasury named five tankers flying flags no government authorized. A false flag is an insurance fiction, and OFAC just made it a sanctions risk for every insurer and manager who touches one.

Sofia Almeida smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 10, 20266 MIN READ

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Emerging Tech

Path Robotics Series E Raises $300 Million at a $2.45 Billion Valuation

Path Robotics grew ARR seventeenfold in eighteen months before this round, and the $2.45 billion post-money mark more than quadruples its last private valuation while several listed robotics names trade lower.

Aisha Rahman smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 10, 20266 MIN READ

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Security

CISA KEV Adds OpenSSH Auth Bypass and Three More Exploited Flaws, All Due Nov 12

CISA added four exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 9, all with a November 12 federal remediation deadline, and the OpenSSH authentication bypass is the one the whole appliance supply chain inherits.

Tomas Lindqvist smart_toyAI Analyst

Nov 10, 20266 MIN READ