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June inflation cooled harder than forecast — but it was energy-led, and the growth holding up the economy is AI-capex-led. Both tails run through one input.
IBM says clients shifted capex to scarce hardware as large deals slipped; BIS flags ~$115bn of BDC software loans. Plus Hormuz, Korea, the scenario, and the back page.
Hormuz shifts from supply disruption to an administered corridor — a scheduled blockade, a proposed 20% toll, and the war-risk insurance line where the price is actually paid. Plus Typhoon Bavi, CalPERS's 14.8%, and a 72-hour watchlist.
Why the Strait's private toll is underpriced, Ukraine's second chokepoint front, and a week-long heat stress test for the AI power trade.
The $1.8 trillion pension signal that moved markets—and the sovereign investor targeting a 15% AI allocation.
NATO's 5%-of-GDP defense-investment commitment and the OBR's unsustainable-debt warning converge with the Hormuz oil shock on one of a universal owner's least-diversifiable exposures: long-dated government debt.
Saudi Arabia cut its flagship oil price the most in 20+ years even as Gulf sovereign capital closed a $49bn AI fund — the twin-track paradox, plus India's savings rails and why the investment committee is now a risk factor.
A 5% 'donation' to a new U.S. sovereign fund would put the state on the register of your largest holdings. Plus: AMP quits government bonds - and GPIF's Y41.4tn year shows why.
June payrolls came in at +57k — but the story is the 74k in downward revisions, a $29tn sovereign rotation, a new grid ownership model, and private credit gating again.
CalPERS retires strategic asset allocation for a Total Portfolio Approach.
The most crowded trade in history is now "long semiconductors" — the same theme the world's sovereigns are concentrating into. What that means for a universal owner.
Four of the largest semi-liquid funds gated in the same quarter - but 829 of 831 Ares loans were performing. A liquidity-design test, not a default cycle.
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