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Nvidia's customers got 15 more days to pay.

Nvidia's customers got 15 more days to pay.

Free cash flow fell 56% in the same quarter. Five customers now owe 70% of the receivable book. In Sydney, a fund gated eleven days before the borrower failed.

UAO Editorial · Aug 27, 2026
Revenue rose 18%. Free cash flow fell 56%.

Revenue rose 18%. Free cash flow fell 56%.

Nvidia extended payment terms as commitments surged to $279bn; Australian credit funds show how fast liquidity terms tighten. Plus the Vector, the Risk Radar, people moves and the job board.

UAO Editorial · Aug 27, 2026

38% of $15.6bn. The private-markets exit is rationed.

An application to the SEC would let a fund change its managers without a shareholder vote — including affiliated ones. The compensating right is an exit that met 38% of the dollars requested last quarter.

UAO Editorial · Aug 25, 2026
Federal funds effective rate against 10- and 30-year Treasury yields, two years to 20 August 2026

A fund that is 35.8% cash. Seven exit doors, from 5% to 10%.

Seven notices told investors how much they may ask for back this quarter. Four reports showed how much is sitting in cash. And a filing reported as a launch is the fourth attempt to register the same fund since March.

UAO Editorial · Aug 24, 2026
A 25-year high in real yields just broke the buyout math.

A 25-year high in real yields just broke the buyout math.

Treasury sold 30-year inflation-protected debt at 2.973%, the most since 2001, and primary dealers were left holding 2.10% of it. The same morning a canal cut traffic to 34 ships with its lake at a five-year average. Both are the same story.

UAO Editorial · Aug 21, 2026
Treasury doubled a cap. Blue Owl filled 27% of tenders.

Treasury doubled a cap. Blue Owl filled 27% of tenders.

Treasury is enlarging scheduled long-end buybacks as private-credit funds enforce contractual limits. The lesson is not that public bonds have a new backstop; it is that quoted liquidity and contractual access are different things.

UAO Editorial · Aug 20, 2026
Zero ships crossed Hormuz on Sunday
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Zero ships crossed Hormuz on Sunday

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.

UAO Editorial · Aug 17, 2026
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