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Bank earnings season kicks off Tuesday when JPMorgan reports its second-quarter results, and all eyes are on one number — net interest income. Jamie Dimon's institution is the bellwether, and whatever tone it sets on credit quality and loan demand will ripple through the entire financial sector for weeks.
Shifting to energy, the International Energy Agency is projecting the first annual decline in global oil demand since two thousand twenty, a structural signal that cuts deeper than any single quarter of weak data. The IEA is also flagging renewed U.S.-Iran tensions as a wildcard that could scramble supply dynamics just as demand softens — a contradiction traders will be pricing carefully.
And in the labor market, new data on job postings confirms what many employers have quietly been demanding for months — AI fluency is no longer a technology sector requirement, it's a baseline expectation across management, marketing, and operations roles. The implication for workers is clear: domain expertise alone is no longer sufficient currency in this hiring environment.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
