· Friday
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Bessent-Put Relief Unwinds — 30Y Back Near 5.25% and Stocks at Two-Week Low; Minutes Keep September Hike Live (CME 36.2%) as Bessent Hints at More Intervention, Fed Speakers Split, Dollar Near 3-Month Lows, Gold Consolidates
The one-day Bessent-put relief has fully unwound — the 30Y is back near 5.25% and stocks hit a two-week low — while the July minutes keep a September hike live (CME 36.2%) and Bessent hints at even more intervention, leaving the quiet-Fed/activist-Treasury mix as the regime's core contradiction with the dollar near 3-month lows and gold consolidating .
Hormuz: US Declares Economic "D-Day"; Iran Threatens Yanbu/Fujairah Strikes; Visible Transits at 7/day; Brent Holds ~$94
Escalating — the economic-warfare layer hardened (Trump's "economic D-Day" threat list, Bessent's "toughest sanctions in history," and Iran's plan to strike the Yanbu/Fujairah bypass routes), while visible Hormuz transits fell to 7 vessels Thursday with no supertankers or LNG carriers against US claims of ~10 mb/d via the escorted corridor, and Brent held near $94, set for a second weekly gain .