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Into Sep 11 CPI and the Sep 15–16 FOMC, this week’s own book stays overweight the Hormuz oil/product sleeve and USD versus EUR cash, not duration or pennies. US and EU equity ideas still printed two BUY tickets a day, but the cash tape was a Tuesday oil-shock washout, a Thursday Waller bounce, and a Friday NFP fade with VIX never breaking 17 — treat both equity sleeves as neutral. Crypto is a flow-over-price overweight after spot BTC ETFs absorbed about $987M on Sep 3–4, while BFRI and OTLK remain watchlist-only into the Sep 28 Ameluz PDUFA. Long bonds stay underweight: Anti-Fragile kept TLT at 0, the 10-year held near 4.78%, and HY OAS stayed too tight for a ~60% September hike path.
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| US equities Neutral |
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Friday’s S&P close at 7718.60 (−0.4%) faded Thursday’s Waller bounce to ~7748 after Monday 7686 (−0.33%) and Tuesday’s oil-shock 7631 (−0.71%); VIX never broke 17 and every issue stayed risk-on. No P/E prints landed in us_equity_ideas all week; Thursday’s risk book flagged a software-multiple gap (SNOW vs AVGO) and Friday’s RTX/APH theses treated hike-odds duration compression as the constraint. The US tape was gated by Friday’s +162k NFP, mid-week DELL and SNOW prints, and still-dated Sep 11 CPI, Sep 15–16 FOMC, and the Sep 11 ORCL AI-capex binary. Anti-repetition rotated the pair every session (SLB/ABNB → VLO/FRO → DELL/HAL → SNOW/HOOD → RTX/APH → DUOL/FIVE), so no name repeated, but every issue still published two 7.0–7.5 BUY tickets.
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| EU equities Neutral |
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European energy led early (TTE.PA +2.8% Monday; ENI.MI +2.8% and REP.MC +4.2% Tuesday) while Friday’s only STOXX 50 mark was 6392.93 (+0.45%) — no persistent EU-index trend beyond that oil sleeve. Sell-side PTs implied real gaps — Jefferies ENR.DE €215 vs ~€141 Monday, Goldman RWE €75 vs €58 and ADYEN ~77% upside Wednesday, Goldman VOD 155p vs 122p Friday — rather than published multiples. Dated EU catalysts clustered: Goldman’s Sep 2 conviction adds (RWE/ADYEN), PUB.PA’s PepsiCo ~$1.7B win Thursday, Tata’s €14.10 IVG.MI tender opening Sep 7, plus ECB Sep 10 on the calendar. EU tickers never repeated across the six issues — oil majors gave way to utilities/payments, then telco/agency, then VOD/IVG and TKA/MT — so the week’s calls were diversified, not one-sided.
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| Penny / micro Underweight |
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penny_plays stayed watchlist-only all week: BFRI 5.0 and OTLK 4.5 never cleared the 6/10 buy bar, and Sunday’s issue said the screener was empty. Every BFRI/OTLK thesis cited balance-sheet and dilution — not multiples — as the reason they stay below buy-tier, a quality gap rather than a cheap-entry read. BFRI’s Sep 28 Ameluz sBCC PDUFA sat on every catalyst calendar; OTLK’s YE26 LYTENAVA / HCPCS path was the only other dated microcap binary. The same two names printed in all six issues with streaks rising 4→9 (BFRI) and 4→9 (OTLK) — already-loud watchlist names, no new buy-tier idea.
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| Commodities Overweight |
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3 |
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WTI’s Hormuz premium persisted from Monday ~$86.93 through Friday/Sunday ~$91, with Tuesday’s USO +5.46% / BNO +5.15% spike and US diesel near a record ~$5.85; USO stayed HOLD rather than fading. Gold was repeatedly capped by hike-odds/real-rate pressure (SLV preferred over GLD Monday; bullion slipped after hot NFP) while crude embeds a war premium the book refused to chase after the first add. Live Hormuz/VLCC strikes, heat-driven gas burn, Friday NFP’s real-yield hit to bullion, CFTC sugar-long adds, and product-crack/diesel prints kept the commodity calendar dense. USO was already-held by Wednesday (HOLD streak 2→5) and later issues called the book oil-heavy — daily anti-rep rotation (UNG/SLV → USO/UGA → UNG/CPER → GDX/SIL → PPLT/URA → UGA/CANE) because crude was crowded.
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| Crypto Overweight |
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BTC chopped $77.6k–$80.9k and finished Sunday ~$79.8k near Monday’s $78.8k; ETH similarly ended ~$2.50k versus Monday $2.47k — constructive but not a one-way trend. The week’s valuation read was ETF-flow versus price: Monday’s +$217M BTC rebound, midweek −$236M then +$101M repair, and ~$731M / +$175M on Sep 3–4 for a ~$987M week — Sunday kept BUY because flows beat spot noise. No dated crypto event printed; the live catalysts were successive ETF-flow prints plus the same Sep 11 CPI / Sep FOMC macro gates. BTC and ETH appeared in every issue (streaks 58–60, then reset) and by Friday/Sunday both were already-held BUY/no-add — consensus long both majors.
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| FX Overweight |
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USD short-term seek versus EUR lasted the whole week (streak 4→9, score 7 except the Waller dip to 5 on Thursday) and Sunday still leaned EUR→USD at conviction 7 after Friday’s hike-odds restore. JPY’s multi-year PPP undervaluation was noted but policy follow-through missing; USD long-term stayed neutral on twin deficits; EURUSD ~1.16 was a rates-gap level, not a cheap-EUR call. RBNZ Sep 2 (dovish hike, NZD seek→avoid), Friday NFP, Waller’s odds cut, plus still-dated Sep 11 CPI, Sep 15–16 FOMC, and BoJ Sep 17–18 after the USDJPY ~160→156 squeeze. Every issue increased USD versus EUR and decreased or avoided JPY — a one-sided EUR-cash underweight of the home currency.
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| Rates / credit Underweight |
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Duration never caught a bid: the 10-year held ~4.76–4.80%, the 2-year sat ~4.37% after hot NFP, and Anti-Fragile kept TLT at 0 every session — bond-price momentum stayed soft. HY OAS sat ~2.60–2.70 (too tight for a ~60% hike path per Friday’s credit risk) while 10-year ~4.78% offered carry versus EUR cash but not a TLT overweight. September FOMC hike-sticks was rank-1 risk all six days (streak 4→9), gated by Sep 4 NFP (+162k), Sep 11 CPI, Sep 15–16 FOMC, ECB Sep 10, and BoJ Sep 17–18. The hike-and-stick risk and TLT=0 / cash-heavy Anti-Fragile weights repeated every issue — consensus underweight of long duration.
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This newsletter is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Do your own research before investing.
Morning Alpha • Generated Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:45:34 GMT
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