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JPMorgan's chief told The Master Investor Podcast he wouldn't buy either the S&P 500 or long-dated Treasurys at current prices, a striking statement from a CEO whose bank just posted blockbuster trading and IB revenue last week. His argument isn't about earnings quality — it's about risk premium: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, U.S.-China friction, and deficit-driven fiscal slippage are, in his view, underpriced relative to what's actually baked into spreads and multiples. Dimon pegs fair value on the 10-year closer to 4%-4.5% even assuming inflation cooperates at 2%, implying duration remains a source of pain rather than ballast in portfolios positioned for cuts. His AI comparison to the dot-com cycle is the more nuanced read for equity investors — total spend

Renewed U.S.-Iran strikes have kept crude elevated even as prices dipped Friday, and BlackRock now estimates the conflict adds roughly 0.8 percentage points to global headline inflation — a shock that lands unevenly, hitting energy-import-dependent Europe and Asia harder than the U.S. OCBC's read is blunter: with labor data stabilizing rather than cracking, a fresh energy shock leaves the Fed with no cover to pivot dovish, reinforcing a

The 10-year just punched to a two-month high as oil ripped higher on Iran headlines, and that's the kind of move that reprices every DCF on the Street overnight. Equity vol has been eerily complacent for weeks — VIX sitting in the mid-teens while geopolitical tail risk quietly accumulated — and this is the mechanism by which that complacency gets tested. Rate-sensitive growth and long-duration tech multiples are the first casualties when real yields lurch higher on a supply shock rather than a growth shock, since higher discount rates don't come with the offsetting earnings upgrade you'd get from a demand-driven move. Energy has the obvious positioning tailwind here, and we'd expect systematic and vol-control funds to start trimming beta into the move if the yield spike persists past a few sessions. The real tell is credit spreads: equities can shrug off a one-day rates jolt, but if high-yield starts leaking wider alongside crude, that's the cross-asset signal that this isn't just an oil story anymore.