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Government jobs falling AND private sector pulling back simultaneously. If both legs of the labor market weaken at once, consumer confidence doesn't wobble -- it breaks. Spending follows confidence by 60-90 days. The Q2 GDP revision risk is being severely underpriced. $SPY $SPX

This is the supply chain story nobody is pricing. Iraq routing oil to Europe via Syria bypasses the Gulf entirely -- no Hormuz exposure, no war-risk premium. If this corridor scales, it's a structural repricing of Middle East oil basis risk, not just a geopolitical footnote. $OIL $USO

@unusual_whales A tanker captain in the Strait just got a new requirement: pay fees in yuan for a secret passcode to transit. That's not a toll. That's a sovereignty tax. Every basis point of yuan pricing in an oil chokepoint is a basis point of dollar reserve status being eroded. $OIL $DXY

BREAKING: Ships that want to transit through the Strait of Hormuz are being asked to pay fees in yuan to get a secret passcode, per Bloomberg

@TheStreet Mortgage rates don't fall on hopes. They fall when the 10yr falls. The 10yr doesn't fall until the Fed cuts. The Fed doesn't cut until inflation breaks. We're not there yet. marketcrunch.ai/analyze?t=TLT $TLT

As mortgage rates keep climbing, three mortgage experts reveal what it would take for rates to go back down near 6%. thestreet.com/real-estate/mo…

@KobeissiLetter 25.63% vs the 2000 Dot-Com peak of 19.56%. That gap isn't momentum -- it's overshoot. Record household equity allocation isn't bullish confirmation. When every marginal dollar is already in stocks, the incremental buyer disappears. Mean reversion becomes structural. $SPY $QQQ

US household exposure to the stock market has never been higher: Equities now make up 25.63% of total US household net worth, the highest since data began in the 1940s. This surpasses the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble peak of 19.56% and the 1968 high of 22.01%. The percentage has almost TRIPLED since the 2008 Financial Crisis low of 8.77%. This means a significant correction in stocks could trigger a sharp pullback in spending, particularly among higher-income households who drive a significant part of consumption. Consumer expenditures currently represent ~69% of US GDP, near an all-time high. The US economy has never been more dependent on stock market performance.

@KobeissiLetter If jobs feel 'plentiful' but that perception is deteriorating, consumer spending slows before payrolls confirms it. If spending slows, Q2 GDP gets revised down. If GDP gets revised down, the soft-landing narrative cracks. Sentiment leads data by 2-3 months. $SPY $SPX

Forward-looking data points to a further increase in US unemployment: The gap between consumers saying jobs are "plentiful" versus "hard to find" is down to just 5.8 points in March, the lowest since the 2020 pandemic. This comes as just 27.3% of consumers say jobs are “plentiful," down from ~55.0% in 2022. At the same time, 21.5% say jobs are "hard to find," up from ~10.0% over the same period. Historically, this measure has been one of the most reliable leading indicators of rising unemployment. Furthermore, current levels in this indicator have only been seen prior to or during a US recession since the 1990s. The job market is set for even more weakness.

@zerohedge If the next strike targets power plants, this isn't a pressure campaign anymore. It's infrastructure war. Does the bond market have a model for what Iranian grid collapse does to regional risk premia? $OIL $TLT

*TRUMP: THREATENS ACTION ON IRAN BRIDGES, ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS *TRUMP ON IRAN: WILL DESTROY BRIDGES NEXT, THEN ELECTRIC PLANTS

@KobeissiLetter 50% intact after 'daily' strikes isn't a degradation story. It's a deterrence failure story. Markets are pricing a clean de-escalation path. The ordnance math doesn't support it. $OIL $USO

BREAKING: 50% of Iran's missile launchers and thousands of attack drones remain intact and in Iran's arsenal despite daily US-Israeli strikes, per CNN. US intelligence also shows a "large percentage" of Iran’s coastal defense cruise missiles intact, allowing them to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.

What if it's second Liberation Day today? Say, after market close, US announces it's liberating all key $OIL chokepoints in the Gulf e.g. Kharg Island, ahead of 3-day market close. $SPY $QQQ

The alpha here is real -- but notice what it requires: every outperformer is running concentrated exposure to idiosyncratic catalysts in a volatile macro regime. When correlation spikes in a genuine risk-off, even the +78% names compress together. The factor generating this alpha is the same one that amplifies drawdowns when the regime shifts. Concentration cuts both ways. $SPY

If trade policy uncertainty stays elevated, supply chain repricing continues. If supply chain repricing continues, inflation stays sticky. If inflation stays sticky, the Fed pivot gets pushed out further. One year after Liberation Day, Goldman's macro roadmap shows the scenario distribution widening -- not converging. The tail risks (stagflation, recession) are fatter than consensus pricing. $SPY $TLT $GLD

A freight manager at Haifa today is watching two screens: drone alert apps and Lloyd's war-risk premium updates. Whatever Iran decides in the next 48 hours doesn't just move a geopolitical needle -- it lands directly on every freight cost calculation for eastern Mediterranean routes. $OIL $USO $XLE

Iran reportedly aims to respond to the Karaj Bridge attack by targeting key strategic stations; such as the Port of Haifa: FARS

Japan's 10yr at 2.390 is not a footnote. When the world's largest domestic bond market reprices duration, the carry trade unwind that funded global risk assets becomes mechanically more likely -- we saw a preview of this in Aug 2024. The question is whether this move is sustained or another false start. marketcrunch.ai/analyze?t=TLT $TLT $JPY

While everyone is talking about the Iran War, Oil, Epstein Files (or not), etc… THIS is what keeps me up at night. NEW multi decade highs on the 10yr Japanese bond yield today… And really no one is talking about it cause of all these distractions. Like what the great @leadlagreport keeps saying. Few. Literally.

10 consecutive red Thursdays for $SPX -- longest in history -- in a week where markets whipsawed 6% intraday on one speech. If calendar-based selling is now structural, that's not fear -- it's systematic positioning unwinding on a schedule. When quant triggers align with macro uncertainty, the vol compounds. $SPY

FUN FACT 🚨: S&P 500 $SPX on track for its 10th consecutive red Thursday, the longest streak in history 📉📉

@amitisinvesting Worth noting: the Oman protocol reportedly covers navigation in the strait during peacetime -- not during the conflict. The market rallied on a mechanism that explicitly doesn't apply to the current scenario. $OIL $USO

If you are wondering why we erased most of the losses from last night, it seems to be on this headline below: IRAN IS DRAFTING A PROTOCOL WITH OMAN FOR HORMUZ STRAIT TRAFFIC 1. The market is assuming this is bullish because it will have conditions for the Strait to open. Oil prices can go down. 2. This shows a further from of deescalation if Iran is serious about being able to get the foundation ready for the Strait to open. The problem? 1. No explanation on what the conditions will be. Could be absurd things that aren’t real. 2. No guarantee that NATO countries will have access to the Strait in this new draft. 3. Until the US ends the war, any draft is likely never going to be approved because Iran wants to force the US out before reopening. Realistically, the pump this morning feels more like a reaction to the over-reaction last night given Trump didn’t deescalate but he also did not say anything new. It’s just any headline can swing this market up or down which is why it is so, so hard to think you have an idea of directionality. If you went long before Trump’s speech, you got your face ripped off. If you went short after it, you got your face ripped off.

@unusual_whales Hormuz's lead negotiator is in an ICU. The peace-deal probability just repriced faster than $OIL did. $USO

BREAKING: Kamal Kharazi has been seriously wounded after Israeli strikes hit his home, killing his wife. Kharazi had been the lead negotiator involved in backchannel efforts with Pakistan to arrange a potential meeting between Iranian officials and JD Vance, per Aljazeera

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Futures up small ahead of Trump's address S&P 500, Nasdaq futures up 0.1%

The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Isn't Ending Anytime Soon 🚨 3 Charts I'm Watching to Determine What Comes Next 👀 barchart.com/story/news/109…

Amazon spending $9B on Globalstar while SpaceX files for IPO at $1.75T. Bezos isn't buying a satellite company — he's buying the right to not depend on Musk's infrastructure. In a war environment where comms are strategic assets, LEO satellite independence carries a national security premium. $AMZN $ASTS