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Gold Crashes Through $4,000, Fed Independence Confirmed by Supreme Court as Hawkish Consensus Begins to Fracture
Gold's 12.4% monthly crash below $4,000 and futures-implied rate hike expectations retreating from 1.556 to 1.262 signal growing fragility in the hawkish consensus, even as the Supreme Court ruling affirming Fed independence and Fitch's persistent-inflation warning keep the September hike narrative alive at ~64% probability.
Strait of Hormuz: Talks Confusion as Iran Denies Doha Meeting, Traffic Rebounds to 40 Ships, Oil Steady Near $73
The stand-down holds but diplomatic confusion dominates — U.S. envoys head to Qatar for talks Iran denies are scheduled, while traffic rebounded to 40 ships on Monday and 14 million barrels of Iraqi oil exited the Gulf, as Iran and Oman hold their first joint committee on Strait management, signaling both operational recovery and an unresolved control dispute that keeps oil range-bound near $73 Brent.