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Goldman calls a rates-vol peak as CPI week opens with December near 78%
December pricing is unchanged near 78% into Tuesday's inflation print, but the marginal information today is institutional rather than data-driven — Goldman Sachs calling a top in rate volatility and a 4.75–5.0% 10-year range, Morgan Stanley attributing the September yield round trip to term premium while the trend in rate expectations points to a higher long-run neutral rate, and BofA pulling the debt-ceiling bind forward to February 2027 — a combination that argues for a lower-volatility, higher-neutral, supply-capped long end rather than a directional bond rally .
Trump calls a large strike on Iran "extremely unlikely" as Brent slides toward $95 on the steepest weekly drop since April 2020
The political and price layers de-escalated sharply over 11/08–11/09 — Trump said a large-scale strike was "extremely unlikely" and that it hinged on Iran signing a "very strong deal" , Secretary of State Rubio damped breakthrough hopes , and an unverified Israeli media report that Tehran had dropped its Hormuz control-and-toll demand drove Brent down more than 3% to around $95, extending the largest weekly decline since April 2020 — while the water stayed kinetic, with fresh Iranian mine claims, gunfire near Sirik and a UKMTO-reported projectile strike on a tanker .