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Oil / geopolitics
1 video · 48mBloomberg desks report US strikes on Iranian tankers and Brent above $100; physical barrels at $108 and refined products tight.
Brent crude tops $100 after US destroys Iranian tankers
US forces destroyed five Iranian crude tankers after Tehran attempted to strike a US Navy warship; Iran responded with attacks on an airbase in Jordan and claimed strikes on two US vessels and eight tankers in the Gulf. Brent crude topped $100 a barrel, a level not seen since July.
AI hardware
1 video · 44mKorean and US desks flag OpenAI Astra-driven demand for optical, CPU, foundry and memory names.
Cramer: Energy infrastructure and refiners benefit from Iran war
Cramer recommends refiners like Valero and Marathon as long as the war with Iran drags on, and highlights Enbridge and Enterprise Products Partners as pipeline winners with high yields, benefiting from Hormuz closing and soaring margins.
Hedge funds replacing central banks as marginal Treasury buyers implies higher long-end yields
Brett Heath argues that central banks have stepped away from buying US debt and hedge funds, with ~$2 trillion in holdings and ~$3 trillion in repo funding, are now the marginal buyers. Since hedge funds are price-sensitive and leveraged, and the US rolls over about a third of its debt annually (highest in G7), long-end yields are set to rise.
Christopher Wood: AI capex cycle nearing credit event
Jefferies' Christopher Wood argues the AI capex cycle is increasingly funded by debt, with more than 50% of contracts concentrated in two buyers (OpenAI and Anthropic). He expects a credit event as the cycle extends, but notes it won't stop tomorrow.
Buy Korean semiconductor dips; prefer Samsung over SK Hynix on AI inference shift
Park recommends buying Korean semiconductor stocks on dips for long-term holding. He argues AI demand is shifting from training (HBM-heavy) to inference (DRAM-heavy), making Samsung Electronics more attractive than SK Hynix. He suggests a 7:3 Samsung-to-SK Hynix allocation and notes Samsung's buyback restrictions make dividends a key return driver.