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Detroit is absorbing a serious blow, with the big three automakers warning of a five billion dollar commodities shock tied to the Iran conflict. Aluminum, plastics, paint — the raw material supply chain is getting repriced in real time, and margin pressure across the sector is going to be hard to hide when earnings come.
That geopolitical stress is simultaneously redirecting capital into clean energy, where renewables funds are pulling in their strongest flows in five years. And here's the nuance worth noting — this isn't climate conviction driving the money, it's energy security calculus. Investors want supply chains that don't run through a war zone, and wind and solar fit that bill right now.
Meanwhile Nike is having a very difficult spring. Fiscal third quarter revenue came in flat, profits fell sharply, and the stock shed sixteen percent in April alone. The turnaround narrative management has been selling to Wall Street is running out of runway, and patience among institutional holders is visibly thinning. When revenue stalls and margins compress simultaneously, the market tends to stop giving benefit of the doubt.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
