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Oil futures turned lower late Tuesday after President Trump announced he is pausing Project Freedom, the military-led effort to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump cited progress toward an Iran deal as the reason for the halt, but markets read the uncertainty as a risk, with crude selling off on the news that a key shipping lane remains in limbo.
Shifting to equities, semiconductor stocks are flashing a warning sign that has traders reaching for historical precedents. The rolling twenty-five-day performance for a major chip index has now hit its highest reading since March ninth, two thousand — the day before the dot-com bubble peaked. Whether this is momentum or mania is the question Wall Street cannot stop asking.
And in the bond market, the old playbook of buying long Treasuries when yields approach five percent has historically been a reliable trade. But former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is sounding a different note, warning there is no break-the-glass solution if the United States finds itself unable to finance its debt at manageable rates. That is a statement worth sitting with.
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