June 17, 2026, 1:51 p.m.

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A new commodity landscape under the retreat of geopolitical premiums and central bank gold purchases

Recently, the global commodity markets have shown a marked divergence in trends. Driven by the direct impact of the U.S.-Iran navigational agreement and the easing of shipping risks in the Strait of Hormuz, international crude oil prices took a hit overnight.

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The disintegration of financial narratives: The credit backlash behind the default of US government bonds

Recently, the latest round of ten-year Treasury bond auction by the US Treasury Department encountered an astonishingly low demand.

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The Dilemma of “Defensive Hikes”: Logical Fault Lines and Policy Misalignment Among Three Major Central Banks

The divergent interest rate paths taken by the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Federal Reserve around June 2026 – ostensibly a passive response to rising energy costs from the Middle East conflict – in fact expose deep seated problems in the inflation fighting logic of the world’s major central banks.

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