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The week in Global Markets
The week connected monetary-policy risk to fiscal strain, crowded growth exposure, and broader financial-market fragility.
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Treasury buybacks failed to restore confidence as investors focused on deficits, rising interest costs, refinancing needs, and uncertain foreign demand. By week's end, long-term yields and real rates had reached roughly 25-year highs, intensifying debate over fiscal discipline and financial repression.
Failed negotiations became reciprocal tariffs reaching as high as 50%, widening threats to autos, steel, and integrated North American supply chains. Canada's strong second-quarter rebound provided temporary support but did not remove the risks to exports, jobs, costs, and growth.
Nvidia's stronger outlook reignited the AI equity trade, lifting semiconductor markets and broad indexes. Narrow leadership, elevated valuations, leverage in infrastructure spending, and new corporate-bond issuance left the rally increasingly exposed to rates and weaker breadth.
Warsh's Jackson Hole message moved markets from assuming easier policy toward pricing a possible September hike, while other officials kept the tightening debate active. The shift lifted yields and the dollar and pressured equities, gold, and crypto.
Gold's advance drew support from ETF flows, central-bank buying, a weaker dollar, and policy uncertainty before higher rate expectations and a firmer dollar triggered a sharp selloff. Silver recovered on industrial demand and tight supply, showing a different mix of support within precious metals.
Bitcoin broke above $80,000 as institutional demand and leverage-fueled risk appetite broadened into other tokens. Warsh's hawkish turn then pushed Bitcoin below $78,000 and extended losses in Ethereum, while in-kind ETF transfers deepened traditional finance's role in the market.
Sanctions and rising tensions kept the effect on Iranian oil exports uncertain, then pushed oil higher as geopolitical pressure intensified. The move threatened importers and rate-sensitive assets while briefly supporting markets such as Indian equities when prices had earlier fallen.
The AI infrastructure boom and data-center expansion are drawing heavily on debt while private-credit exposures remain difficult to measure. Insurance links, corporate treasury data demands, and stress at a highly leveraged issuer showed how losses could spread beyond specialist lenders.
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