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"It's Getting Worse": HSBC Warns Commodities Face Squeeze As Chokepoint Chaos Spreads
"It's Getting Worse": HSBC Warns Commodities Face Squeeze As Chokepoint Chaos Spreads
The key takeaway heading into the weekend is that maritime chokepoint chaos has spread from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, while fighting across the Black Sea has intensified between Russia and Ukraine. The widening disruptions have prompted several institutional desks this week to warn that a potential squeeze on physical commodity markets could send prices from energy to agricultural goods higher.
"The Middle East conflict has escalated, putting a substantial squeeze back into commodity markets,"...
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Apr 8, 2026 / Tyler Durden
S&P Slashes New Orleans' Credit Rating On "Structurally Imbalanced Operations"
S&P Slashes New Orleans' Credit Rating On "Structurally Imbalanced Operations"
New Orleans, home to Mardi Gras and muffulettas, has been governed by Democrats for decades, so it should come as little surprise that S&P Global Ratings has slashed the city's obligation rating to the third-lowest level of investment grade and placed it on a negative outlook.
S&P Global Ratings cut New Orleans' general obligation rating by one notch to BBB+ with a negative outlook, citing structurally imbalanced finances, shrinking reserves, and growing reliance on one-time desperate measures to meet cash needs.
"The...
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Jul 10, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing 'Chat Control', Brussels Passes It Anyway...
Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing 'Chat Control', Brussels Passes It Anyway...
On Thursday in Strasbourg, 314 Members of the European Parliament voted to reject the return of "Chat Control," the legal regime allowing tech companies to scan the private messages of roughly half a billion Europeans.
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Only 276 voted to keep it.
So naturally, the scanning regime won - thanks to a 'quirky' voting procedure in Brussels that allowed legislation to survive even though most MEPs who cast a vote opposed it. That should alarm anyone who still believes the word "parliament"...
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Jun 19, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Is The Fed Finally Done Rescuing Markets?
Is The Fed Finally Done Rescuing Markets?
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
GLJ Research’s Gordon Johnson is one of my favorite analysts on the street to read and gets a rare endorsement from me (I hate basically everyone selling sell-side style research) because, like my friend Mark Spiegel, he is one of the last few analysts out there that seems committed to the truth….no matter how ridiculous it makes him look in the short term while he’s waiting for his theses to play out.
Johnson came away from this week’s Fed meeting with a...
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