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This is absolutely INSANE.

TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE WIPED OUT AND ADDED BACK IN LESS THAN 22 HOURS.

When U.S. futures opened Sunday night, markets immediately reacted to the Middle East war escalations.

Stocks sold off sharply.

The S&P 500 fell 2.3%, wiping out about $1.33 trillion.

The Nasdaq dropped 2.4%, erasing roughly $924 billion.

The Dow fell 2.3%, losing about $529 billion in market value.

At the same time, energy markets exploded.

Oil +31%
Brent +25%
natural gas +10%

Then just before the U.S. market opened, a single statement changed everything. G7 finance ministers said they were ready to release strategic reserves and act to stabilize global energy supply if needed.
Within hours, energy market crashed.
Oil crashed –32%.
Natural gas crashed –13%.
But U.S. Equities started surging on this.
The S&P 500 jumped 3.5%, adding $2.03 trillion.
The Nasdaq jumped 4.35%, adding roughly $1.67 Trillion
The Dow jumped 3.3%, adding about $759 billion.
One government statement was enough to move trillions of dollars across global markets in just a few hours.
#StrategyBTCPurchase

🚨🚨🚨 TRUMP JUST DEPLOYED "DOOMSDAY" NUCLEAR COMMAND PLANES TO THE MIDDLE EAST. READ THAT AGAIN. 🚨🚨🚨
These are not fighter jets. These are not bombers. These are not surveillance aircraft.
These are E-6B Mercury planes — the aircraft designed to survive a NUCLEAR WAR and command the launch of America's ENTIRE nuclear arsenal from the air.
Process that.
💀 The E-6B is the plane that gives the order to launch nuclear missiles from SUBMARINES
💀 It's the plane that survives when EVERYTHING else is destroyed
💀 It's the plane that was built for ONE scenario — nuclear war
💀 There are only 16 of them in existence
💀 And they just sent them to the Middle East
⚠️ Oil at $120/barrel — up 25% in a single day
⚠️ $2+ TRILLION erased from futures BEFORE markets even opened
⚠️ Japan crashed 6% this morning
⚠️ Iran's new hardliner Supreme Leader just took power
⚠️ Iran's Parliament: "If war continues, there will be no path for oil"
⚠️ 20 million barrels/day OFFLINE — largest supply shock in human history
They're showing you oil prices and stock market futures.
They're NOT showing you that the United States just moved its nuclear command infrastructure to the theater of war.
You don't deploy doomsday planes for a conventional war → you deploy them when the NUCLEAR option is on the table → and the nuclear option is only on the table when everything else has FAILED.
Hegseth said: "We are willing to go as far as we need to."
Now we know what "as far as we need to" means.
This is the most dangerous 24 hours since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨
#Iran'sNewSupremeLeader

🚨 THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ASSET MANAGER, BLACKROCK, IS IN TROUBLE.

BlackRock’s HPS Corporate Lending Fund, which manages about $26 billion, received $1.2 billion in withdrawal requests this quarter. That equals roughly 9.3% of the fund’s assets.

But the fund only allows 5% of assets to be redeemed each quarter.

So BlackRock paid out about $620 million and restricted the remaining withdrawals.

This type of limit is built into many private credit funds.

It exists because the underlying assets are long-term loans to companies, and those loans cannot be sold quickly when investors want their cash back.

Private credit has grown rapidly since the 2008 financial crisis.

When regulators forced banks to reduce risk, large asset managers stepped in to provide loans directly to companies. Today the sector has expanded to around $2–3 trillion globally.

These funds lend to:

• mid-sized companies
• private equity backed businesses
• highly leveraged borrowers
• firms that cannot easily get bank financing

Investors were attracted because the loans often pay 8%–12% yields, which is much higher than traditional bonds.

But the structure has an important weakness.

Investors can request withdrawals periodically, yet the underlying loans often last 3–7 years and are not traded on public markets.

That creates a liquidity mismatch.

If many investors request their money at the same time, the fund cannot easily sell the loans to generate cash.

BlackRock’s situation is not isolated.

Earlier this week, Blackstone also faced elevated withdrawal requests in its private credit vehicle and increased its redemption limit while injecting $400 million of internal capital to meet demand.

Another large player, Blue Owl, has also dealt with redemption pressure in a similar type of fund.

These developments come at a time when investors are becoming more cautious about credit risk.

Some borrowers funded by private credit lenders have already faced bankruptcies, including companies in sectors such as auto parts and subprime auto lending.

At the same time, several macro factors are creating uncertainty for corporate borrowers:

• higher interest costs
• slowing economic growth expectations
• geopolitical tensions affecting markets
• technological disruption affecting some industries

Private credit now plays a large role in corporate financing.

Insurance companies alone hold about $1.8 trillion in exposure to this market.

Because of that size, analysts and regulators closely watch signs of stress in the sector.

BlackRock limiting withdrawals does not mean the system is failing, but it definitely shows weakness.

The broader question investors are now asking is whether this is simply a temporary reaction to market volatility or the early stage of a larger credit cycle slowdown.

Private credit expanded rapidly over the last decade.

Events like this are the first real test of how the system behaves when investors start asking for their money back at the same time.
#MarketPullback

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 How they killed Khamenei: A years-long deception operation ending with missiles launched from the edge of space.
The setup: Israeli generals publicly left headquarters Friday for Shabbat. Posed for photos going home. Then snuck back in disguise.
Why? They needed Iran to think Israel was shutting down for the weekend. Khamenei felt safe enough to emerge from hiding for a meeting at his palace.
Then came Saturday 7:30am Iran time: Israeli F-15s take off. 9:40am: They launch 30 Blue Sparrow missiles.
Blue Sparrows are insane. They exit Earth's atmosphere, separate from boosters, re-enter at hypersonic speed. Nearly impossible to intercept.
Originally designed to test air defenses. Israel converted them into offensive weapons.
During the strike, IDF simultaneously disrupted a dozen cell towers near the palace. Phones appeared busy when called. Khamenei's security couldn't get warnings out.
But the real operation was years in the making:
Israel hacked almost all of Tehran's surveillance cameras; the same ones Iran uses to spy on its own people. Tracked bodyguards' movements, work schedules, where they parked at Khamenei's compound.
"We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem," one Israeli intelligence official said. "When you know a place that well, you notice a single thing out of place."
CIA had a human source. Israeli AI analyzed mountains of data. Together they pinpointed exactly where Khamenei would be.
The strike killed: Khamenei, his wife, daughter, grandchild, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, Rear Admiral Shamkhani, IRGC commander Pakpour.
One compound. One meeting. Everyone dead.
Multi-year intelligence operations, hacked surveillance systems, AI analysis, human sources, and missiles from space. All to kill one man at precisely the right moment.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Laser weapons are getting their first real workout in Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. Navy’s HELIOS system on a destroyer off Iran’s coast is reportedly zapping drones out of the sky with pinpoint energy beams.
It’s being credited for a lot of the Iranian missile and drone debris raining down harmlessly across the region.
This is next-level stuff: satellites spot launches, cyber teams jam radar, lasers fry incoming threats, and it’s why the US and Israel have kept boots off the ground while taking out 1,700 targets with minimal losses.
Source: NYPost
#USIranWarEscalation

A scammer received 126,000 TON from a whale, worth roughly $220,000 USDT, but later returned 116,000 TON (about $203,000 USDT) and kept 10,000 TON (around $17,000 USDT) as “compensation.”
What happened is that when a whale was about to send coins, they accidentally copied the wrong wallet address from the transaction history. This happened because the scammer had created a similar-looking address and had previously sent a small amount of a coin to it, making it appear legitimate
The whale wasn’t paying attention; he saw the familiar first characters of the address and the last and copied it without checking.
He then sent 126K TON to the scammer by mistake.
When the scammer received the funds, he took 10K TON, then sent back 116K TON and even dropped a message in the transaction saying:
“Sorry, the money is too much. I know it’s your hard‑earned funds.”
🤔 What would you call this kind of scammer?
And if you were the whale. Would you forgive him?
#MarketRebound

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran's firing $20,000 drones. America's shooting them down with $4 million interceptor missiles.
That math only works for so long.
Since the war started, Iran's launched 500+ ballistic missiles and 2,000+ drones.
The U.S. has intercepted hundreds. Burning through THAAD, Patriot PAC-3, and SM-3 interceptors at unsustainable rates.
During last year's 12-day conflict, the U.S. consumed 25% of its THAAD stocks. This war's already potentially fired more in under a week.
America produces roughly 600 Patriot missiles per year. Iran just made us use nearly a year's worth of production in days.
Iran knows this. Their Defense Ministry said March 3 they've "prepared for a prolonged confrontation." They're not trying to win the missile exchange. They're trying to drain the magazine.v
Trump's right about having unlimited munitions... for JDAMs and basic bombs. Production's strong there.
The problem? Interceptors defending U.S. bases from Iranian retaliation. Those are running critically low. And they can't be restocked in days; production timelines are 1-3 years.
This is economic warfare. Iran spends $20k. America spends $4 million. Every interception is a win for Iran's budget and a loss for America's stockpile.
The side that runs out of interceptors first has to start letting missiles land.
That's the clock nobody's talking about publicly. And it's ticking faster than anyone wants to admit.
WaPo, Bloomberg
#USIranWarEscalation

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China is reportedly pressuring Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
There’s just one problem:

Iran didn’t close it.
In reality, several London-based insurers pulled war-risk coverage, effectively halting much of the shipping traffic through the strait.
China may have leverage over Tehran

(it buys roughly 80% of Iran’s seaborne oil).
But it has no leverage over Lloyd’s of London and the global insurance market that actually determines whether ships sail.
Until insurers believe the Gulf is safe again, the strait remains closed in practice.

(Analysis from Oran Dror)
#USIranWarEscalation