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The SEC stopped answering. An insurer reclassified $16bn. The 30-year hit its highest since 2007. Four gaps opened this week between the risk a long-horizon owner holds and the systems used to measure, govern and price it.
The 8-K discloses the cap, the trigger and the indemnity. The DOE disclosed the gas in February.
Reuters, citing Kpler, counted five Saturday transits and none on Sunday (later count: 3 Sat / 2 Sun), against 31 the weekend before. A vendor zero is not a closed strait.
Spain licensed Almaraz through 8 June 2030. India closed new FCNR(B) deposits after $52.300 billion. CPP Investments printed a 7.5% quarter.
NBIM votes 0.01% of SpaceX. GIC backs Anthropic's landlord. Six giants chase $500bn of compute credit. Canada's pensions split 9.5 / 5.1 / 4.8.
NBIM votes 0.01% of SpaceX. GIC backs Anthropic's landlord. Six giants chase $500bn of compute credit. Canada's pensions split 9.5 / 5.1 / 4.8.
BofA, NVIDIA, Goldman, GIC — six announcements this week, two of them transactions.
Two numbers from one bank on one day. Only one is a signed commitment of the bank's own capital — and even that has not closed.
The world's largest fund just posted a record half-year. Its allocation decisions subtracted from it.
Six firms sign MoUs to lend against GPUs as infrastructure — Nvidia may backstop up to $125bn. OTPP's broad-based 9.5%. The Rhine stops at Kaub. Hormuz, disrupted since February, gets a price list.
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Physical alternatives matter only if ships, crews and insurers will use them. Hormuz, the Red Sea and the Black Sea give asset owners a reason to test where supposedly diversified exposures share the same contractual bottlenecks.