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Market commentary from the trading desk: trading and sales heads on flows and positioning in programs such as Goldman Sachs' The Markets, plus ZeroHedge's relays of desk market color (relays are leads only).

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    U.S. Nears Deal with Russia to Release Detained Americans as Witkoff Heads to Moscow

    According to ABC and The New York Times, U.S.-Russia negotiations have entered a final stage, with a deal expected to release several American citizens detained by Russia, including Stephen Hubbard, a 72-year-old retired teacher whom the U.S. State Department has determined was wrongfully detained. U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff is set to arrive in Moscow on Wednesday to brief Russian officials on the outcomes of recent talks in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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    Anthropic's updated S-1 draft discloses a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half, with compute commitments reaching up to $750 billion

    ZeroHedge relays the updated S-1 draft of Anthropic reviewed by The Wall Street Journal: H1 2026 revenue was approximately $16.3 billion, with a net loss of $80.7 billion, of which about $72 billion was a non-cash loss from fair value remeasurement of convertible instruments; excluding this, operating loss was approximately $8.7 billion.

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    Iran denies reports that a U.S.-Iran deal is "close" after Qatar and Pakistan pushed a "compromise proposal" to end the war

    Iran denied reports through its news agency that a U.S.-Iran deal was "close," stating that negotiations are ongoing. This follows a "compromise proposal" from Qatar and Pakistan that addressed both sides' demands, which had caused oil prices to fall; prices rebounded after Iran's denial. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it detonated mines in the southern Strait of Hormuz, causing two violating oil tankers to catch fire and be intercepted.

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    CME Plans to Launch the World's First Tungsten Futures as Arms Demand Surges, Raising Risk of Severe Shortages by 2030

    CME Group plans to launch the world's first tungsten futures contracts, with trading expected to begin in early Q1 2027, pending regulatory approval. The contracts will be settled against Fastmarkets' Western ammonium paratungstate (APT) benchmark price, introducing an exchange-based forward pricing mechanism to a tungsten market currently reliant on spot pricing. After China implemented export restrictions in early 2025, the Western APT benchmark price once surged to $3,000 per tonne, and has since fallen back to around $2,775 per tonne.

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16 OctFri
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    Goldman Sachs' Alex Finston on How Rising Rates and AI Issuance Are Impacting Credit Markets

    Credit markets have remained resilient even as rates have risen and investors have scrutinized the outlook for AI, Alex Finston, co-head of U.S. and Asia credit trading within Global Banking & Markets, said on The Markets podcast. Finston said that historically, as long as rates rise in an orderly fashion, investors often see higher bond yields as an opportunity. He also shared his views on high-quality AI credit, portfolio hedging and municipal bonds.

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9 OctFri
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    Hedge Funds Are Cautious on Equities Amid Rate and Energy Volatility

    Hedge funds are holding equities at historically low levels in their long-short strategies amid continued volatility in rates and oil, Mark Wilson, head of European equities franchise sales and hedge funds, said. He also pointed to opportunities in European defense and energy independence, and discussed big tech, German government spending beneficiaries and the outlook for U.S. third-quarter earnings on the podcast.

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2 OctFri
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    AI Is Becoming a Stock Picker's Market

    AI stock trades are evolving as investor interest shifts from semiconductor makers and companies that benefit from AI capital spending to those that help businesses implement AI and develop commercial AI agents, Peter Callahan, U.S. TMT specialist within Global Banking & Markets, said on The Markets podcast. He also discussed the impact of rising rates on tech stocks, the divergence among software companies and the outlook for semiconductors. Recorded September 30, 2026.

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25 SeptFri
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    Why the Bond Market Could Be the Biggest Risk to Equities

    The bond market could be the biggest risk to further equity gains after U.S. 10-year Treasury yields rose this week to their highest level since 2007, Tony Pasquariello, global head of hedge fund coverage within Global Banking & Markets, said. He also said that shorting bonds can be an effective hedge for equities, that S&P 500 earnings growth remains strong but will likely moderate, and that Japan's TOPIX offers opportunities amid shareholder reform and government spending on defense and industrialization.

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