Credit jitters off, TACO friday / BYD's hub / IKEA / Oracle's Allisson on data / Geopolitics / JPN new coalition
- Stéphan

- 4 days ago
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Japan set for new coalition, as Takaichi set to become PM #JPY
Markets : no credit worries yet then, markets rebound as Trump contains China chaos on Friday, more TACO action on Friday, cold war, Ai race, US rare earth trade war with China (dependency, big picture not priced in, not even close..), you have to wonder what this will do to capital markets to have 40+ years of trade politices that benefited the US dominance, peace and globalisation, what will it do if trade policies fully reverse..?? Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future' BoE's Bailey, Larry Allisson's bragging on private policy !, Swiss government fears wealth exodus with inheritance tax hike, U.S. Credit Spreads drop to lowest level since 1998 (what credit scare?..amazing really), BYD's new manufacturing hub in Zhengzhou is the size of the US city of San Francisco..
Geopolitics : Trump urged Zelensky to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning Putin said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree. The meeting was a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time.”.., Trump, up and down as usual, on Ukraine-Russia, hard to tell what was really said !!, S&P cuts France's credit rating due to the country's unsustainable debt trajectory
Trade : Even IKEA is raising prices in this economy, Trump says US will increase tariffs on Colombia as drug trade feud escalates,
The US economy is so insanely financialized that it has more private equity funds (19,000) than McDonald's (14,000)
#GOLD Gold’s breakout is a macro story driven by fiscal dominance, de-dollarization, debasement, inflation and global central bank demand — and why Bitcoin isn’t the hedge many think / Thread, video - Gold now accounts for over 20 % of global central bank reserves, the highest share we've seen in nearly three decades, but you need a long-term chart to realize it was 40% in the 1980's (FT chart available on request)
#XAUUSD India’s largest precious metals refinery has RUN OUT of silver STOCK for the FIRST TIME in HISTORY — maybe just down to Diwali, let's see...
AI growth now depends on sovereign control of infrastructure, not just software innovation
LDP's Takaichi set to become PM as Japan Innovation agrees to coalition. Diet to pick first female prime minister on Tuesday but minority rule may continue
NEXTA on X: "Trump defends himself: Donbas was never offered to Russia Donald Trump said that during his talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, the idea of handing over Donbas to Russia was “never discussed.” According to him, the talks were only about freezing hostilities along the current front https://t.co/B2095yEVvl" / X
Trump tells Zelensky to give up Ukrainian land as White House meeting descends into 'shouting match'
Captionizer on X: "Oh my, did public AI just jump the shark? Larry openly bragged that every bit of our personal “private” data from any Oracle powered organization, has been unknowingly accessed, scraped, and sprayed across the public LLM domains! Watch till the end, this is absolutely insane. https://t.co/xEqfYSrQAh" / X
Theft of privacy ! not even hiding it, totally normal practice bascially, wont' be stopped, Oracle admits they are part ofit, that is the US exceptionalism and Ai tech dominance... he said it out loud '''Larry openly bragged that every bit of our personal “private” data from any Oracle powered organization, has been unknowingly accessed, scraped, and sprayed across the public LLM domains!'''
If any doubt ... Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future', Bank of England chief says | UK News | Sky News
Farrukh on X: "ITV news cover Andrew Bailey pointing out that Brexit is bad for the UK's economic growth Journalist, "Brexit, which dominated our politics for so many years has almost become a bit like a curse word for some of the parties" "Just really afraid to even talk about it" "Even https://t.co/RlH3NLbVL3" / X
Video, nice macro stuff
Ben Norton on X: "The US economy is so insanely financialized that it has more private equity funds (19,000) than McDonald's (14,000). This is because the US economy is not based on innovation, and certainly not manufacturing; it's based on parasitic financial rent-seeking https://t.co/1jToYELYjI https://t.co/WvE3Sd7KZ5" / X

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