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Credit2026-04-02
The Complacency Trade — Credit Spreads Are Flashing Green in a Red World
HY OAS at 3.28% tells a strikingly different story from oil at $111 and gold at $4,697
High-yield credit spreads are tightening even as oil surges and stagflation deepens — either the market is reading the cycle correctly, or it is dangerously wrong. The answer has enormous implications for equities, rates, and the broader regime.
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Macro
2026-04-02
The Fed's Impossible Summer
Stagflation deepening, real yields collapsing, and the Strait of Hormuz holding the world economy hostage.
Rates
2026-04-01
The Bond Market Is Screaming Recession While Inflation Refuses to Quit
A 52-basis-point collapse in the 2-year yield sets up the most dangerous macro tension of 2026.
Macro
2026-04-01
The Frozen Economy — When Neither Hiring Nor Firing Is a Warning Sign
A labour market in stasis, widening credit spreads, and gold at $4,700 paint a stagflation portrait the Fed cannot easily escape.
Macro
2026-03-31
The Trapped Fed and the Stagflation Squeeze Tightening Its Grip
With inflation sticky, credit spreads widening and gold at $4,586, the Fed's room to manoeuvre is narrowing fast.