The Yield Desk Smelled Smoke
Treasury desks lowered their sights before the official data gave them cover.
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Blackwell Clears The Wire
Nvidia printed the number after the close, and the tape did not get the clean victory it wanted.
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Ukraine’s Minerals Enter The Ledger
The U.S. pitch on Ukraine’s minerals surfaced as a balance-sheet demand, with NBC-linked reporting saying Washington sought 50% of Ukraine’s rare earth and strategic mineral upside while Kyiv resisted the initial draft.
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Reciprocity Gets A Target List
The memorandum signed on 13 February ordered agencies to build a country-by-country reciprocal tariff plan, turning every non-reciprocal duty, tax, subsidy, and trade barrier into a target package.
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Payrolls Break Formation
The January payroll print crossed at 143,000 jobs, below the 170,000 economists expected in a Reuters poll, while unemployment fell to 4.0% and December was revised up to 307,000.
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Beijing Adds Metal Again
China’s central bank data showed another gold purchase for January, later detailed by the World Gold Council as a 5-tonne addition that lifted official holdings to 2,285 tonnes.
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The Chip Book Bleeds
Nvidia lost close to $593 billion in market value on 27 January, with Reuters citing a near 17% fall after DeepSeek’s low-cost AI assistant forced investors to reprice the hardware moat.
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The Drill Order Was Also A Minerals Order
The energy order signed on 20 January did more than open a domestic drilling lane; it tied fuels, minerals, transport, refining, generation, and industrial security into one command structure.
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The Fleet Gets Named
The sanctions package landed on 10 January and the tanker market spent the next sessions sorting hulls from ghosts, after Treasury named Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegas, and more than 180 vessels tied to Russian oil flows.
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Cushing Hits Bone
The tanks at Cushing were already running thin when the first full trading week opened, with EIA data later showing 20.038 million barrels at the Oklahoma delivery hub for the week ending 3 January.
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The Gold Ledger Moves Off-Book
Gold closed the year with the tape still warm, spot metal near $2,603.69 on 31 December after a 26% annual advance, while the October high at $2,790.15 stayed on the board like a marked target.
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