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US-UK tech deal frozen / PLAT +100% / Ford kills F150 EV / VIX expiry tom, BoJ & Epstein files Friday-key event risk

  • Writer: Stéphan
    Stéphan
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  • Markets : equity softer ahead of a barrage of delayed US data (payrolls today), FED uncertainty persist, Hassett suddenly not the favorite on betting markets, FORD kills it's all electric F-150-a $19.5bn write-off (Trump cut subsidizes...), an ounce of SILVER is now for the first time worth more and a barrel of Crude, BoJ meeting on Friday is a key event for risk (PARTICULARLY AFTER THE VIX expiries..), ORCL is now down 45% since the AI hyped highs 2months ago (debt..), Epstein files are scheduled to be released on Friday, per the Epstein Files Transparency Act (suspect Trump will do all sorts of other things to divert attention then, Venezuela bomboing and god knows what else), Dutch Pension Shift Obsessing Bond Traders Is About to Get Real-BBG >>> equity markes clearly is a spot of bother, sell rallies, big risk after US data dump and VIX expiries this week (often a trigger..), USDollar looks soft, previous metals loving it still, since we recommended earlier in the year..XPT now up 100pct year-to-date, Silver same, PALL reacting slowly but surely too, while BTC struggles..

  • Geopolitics : UKR-RU deal full of hope, but doesn't sound like a deal is imminent (Rosenberg)

  • EU yields to pressure from automakers as it rethinks 2035 combustion car ban #PLAT

  • OpenAI Researcher quits, saying Company is hiding the Truth. It's not letting potentially damning research get out there

  • Bank of America’s Savita Subramanian forecasts the S&P 500 ending 2026 at 7,100, implying just 4% upside and the most bearish Street view

  • Trump has put Starmer’s £31bn “tech prosperity deal” on ice to force the UK to drop its digital tax and weaken food standards >> REOPEN customs union negotiations fast!!.. and this is absolutely MENTAL : "Annual average regular earnings growth was 7.6% for the public sector and 3.9% for the private sector" - ONS, weaker UK payroll employment data too this morning (5.1%)

  • Bethany McLean broke the Enron scandal. Tomorrow, she publishes her first investigation for Hunterbrook — on a company that may epitomize the AI bubble.

  • DeSantis says AI Data Centers have ZERO economic benefit for locals


Experts ” predictions for Bitcoin before the end of 2025 ... just imagine the amount of money spent on these experts...

$170,000 - JPMorgan

$180,000 - VanEck

$200,000 - Standard Chartered

$250,000 - Tim Draper

$126,000 - Tom Lee

$350,000 - Robert Kiyosaki

$500,000 - Chamath Palihapitiya











Goldman (Bartlett): - AI is no longer the ~only micro theme in the market, but it’s still the most important, and I think it’s safe to say the thematic disappointed [last] week. - ORCL spent too much (raised FY26 Capex, market no longer rewarding off-balance sheet spend), AVGO didn’t raise AI Revenue forecast by enough, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT 5.2 didn’t spark the market’s interest like Gemini 3 did in early Nov, and [Friday's] report of ORCL datacenter pushouts didn’t help matters (even if it was refuted later). - After a solid 2 week rally in the trade, some air is clearly getting let back out, and most AI stocks are now back to ~flat on a 2 month+ basis.




says he’s running for Congress to NOT ONLY expose Pam Bondi's corruption in the record, but to ALSO hold her accountable. This is huge









 
 
 

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