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Hot CPI, falling long yields, and a Chair who won't guide: the curve is now a positioning trade
The week's defining oddity is that the hottest inflation run of this sequence left the 10-year Treasury yield roughly 15bp lower at 5.098% on a bull flattening , even as Chair Warsh refused any forward judgment at the IMF and October hike odds slid to about 15–20% against a fully priced December — a negative stock-bond print built on haven demand, Treasury buybacks and crowded duration shorts rather than on disinflation.
Iran opens fire on a Hormuz transiting vessel and claims two mined supertankers as Vance warns on gasoline
Escalation moved to direct shore-based interdiction — Iran's armed forces opened fire from near the Sirik area on a vessel attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz at 18:15 local on 10/17 and intercepted it, while the IRGC Navy said two supertankers struck mines, exploded and caught fire and Iran's navy declared the strait is not in an "open" state — against US Vice President JD Vance's counter-claim that the US military is ensuring oil passes through the strait and that gasoline prices will fall once the conflict ends , with crude up on the week but the two spot benchmarks diverging sharply: WTI spot at $101.41 (+$9.56 w/w) versus Brent spot at $116.93 (−$16.02 w/w) .