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West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude's contracts for October delivery both declined by about 3%.
Cross-asset implied volatilities rose across the board as Treasury market concerns trickled into equities and the other major asset classes. The VIX Index underperformed skew last week, bouncing off its YTD low and rising 0.9 pts w/w to 15.1 on the -1.4% SPX pullback.
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Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America face questions from the SEC, which is looking into how Situational Awareness nearly collapsed, according to multiple reports.
‘The long-term Treasury yield is the only fiscal disciplinarian the U.S. has left,' says billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller.
With August drawing to a close, U.S. equities endured a volatile risk-off week led by fixed-income market action. Mounting fiscal deficit concerns and rising oil prices combined to push longer-dated Treasury yields to multi-year highs.
Strive offers daily dividends and a debt-free balance sheet, providing downside protection but limiting upside versus peers like MSTR. ASST's preferred stock, SATA, yields about 13% annually, with an 18-month dividend reserve and mechanisms to maintain its trading range. Recent price surge to 1.69x mNAV likely reflects a short squeeze, making ASST less attractive than MSTR, which trades at 1.00x mNAV.
Reports emerged Monday that the Treasury might deploy its nearly $1 trillion general account to finance the increased buybacks of long-end securities it announced last week.
The market turbulence indicator hit 1 on Aug. 19 for the first time since December 2024 following the presidential election.
Shares of Melrose Industries rose 8% on Tuesday after the GKN Aerospace owner said it was targeting September 28 to resume full production at its Garden Grove facility and pay up to $100 million to settle damage claims from a May incident involving an overheating chemical tank.
Two Harbors Investment Corp. Series A Preferred Shares face major risk as the company merges with CrossCountry Mortgage and goes private on August 25, 2026. TWO.PR.A holders may see limited upside—just one more month of accrued interest—while facing significant downside if CCM chooses not to redeem the preferred shares. CCM's stated intent to redeem TWO preferreds is not legally binding, and ongoing litigation with UWM introduces further uncertainty over capital allocation and redemption likelihood.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned of secondary sanctions on any third parties attempting business with the Islamic regime, including China. Bessent also insists the Treasury's auction schedule would continue apace even amid the department's buybacks.
Iran sanctions and Hormuz shipping restrictions tighten global fuel supply as WTI and Brent test support, while U.S. natural gas remains well supplied.
Oil pulled back and the dollar strengthened to a one-week high after the Treasury Secretary warned countries and companies that do business with Iran will face U.S. retaliation.
U.S. equity markets moved lower this week, with weakness led by technology, Industrials, Utilities, and broader growth-oriented benchmarks. The NASDAQ 100 ETF declined 2.41%, while the S&P 500 ETF fell 1.38%, pressured by sharp losses in Technology, Industrials, and Utilities.
