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Good evening, this is Markets Desk with your midweek market update.
President Trump has touched down in Beijing for a high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping, and markets are already pricing in the possibility of a thaw. The meeting is expected to cover trade, technology, Taiwan, and the ongoing Iran war, making it one of the most consequential diplomatic encounters in years.
Speaking of the Iran war, crude oil is sitting above one hundred one dollars a barrel at midday, and analysts at MarketWatch are warning investors may be dangerously complacent. Nearly one billion barrels of global supply have been lost over the past seventy-five days, yet the roughly fifty percent price surge since late February still appears to understate the severity of that supply shock.
And on the inflation front, April's consumer price data has handed Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and the broader Federal Reserve committee what bond traders are calling zero excuses. Markets are increasingly forcing the Fed's hand, with yields climbing on expectations that a rate hike is no longer a question of if but when, as bond investors refuse to wait for the central bank to act.
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