Mike Dolan
speaker
285 appearances
34 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Mike Dolan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 34 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 8.
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Reuters World News · Japan quake, ICE children arrests and Johnson & Johnson talc deal · 28 Jul 2026
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$10 plus drop in oil prices this week, yet no change in the expectations for a possible hike as soon as Wednesday.
There's a one in three chance still in futures markets despite that drop in oil prices, which shows that people are looking well beyond the Iran and oil price story for the inflation pressures that the Fed needs to keep an eye on.
Good morning.
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We've a super busy week ahead, dominated by the big hyperscaler earnings, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Apple, all reporting either side of a critical Fed meeting where the Fed is still priced in the futures market with a one in four chance of a rate hike this week.
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So some critical events.
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It gets a bit of relief coming into the week with oil prices falling back.
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But there is some very big single stock movements going on, not least in China, where we had a 500% rise of CXMT to become China's biggest company on its first day trading.
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So yes, oil markets are tightening yet again today.
Brent crude almost hitting $98 a barrel, putting the $100 a barrel psychological level back in focus.
The reasons are very clear.
We've now got almost two weeks of escalating violence in the Middle East, which has expanded to the Red Sea and is worrying about
oil markets there as well, because Saudi tankers turning back yesterday, European Union warning its ships not to go there.
It all is creating a very big supply crunch yet again.
They'll look at natural gas prices, for example, and feel this is going to be a worry for inflation going forward.
Reuters World News · Spain's World Cup win, new UK PM and US voter fraud claims · 20 Jul 2026
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So it was a pretty shaky week last week, particularly for the tech stock universe.
And we've got a nervous start to this week coming from the Gulf and coming from the Iran conflict where crude oil prices are back above $90 a barrel after a jump of about 16% last week.
They are tightening and tightening as that conflict deepens and deepens.
It's the ninth day in a row that the U.S.
has hit Iran and there has been retaliation across the region.
So we have to watch that very closely and tech stocks will inevitably having dropped certainly the chip sector dropped 10% last week in US now look to the hyperscalers and alphabets results on Wednesday for the next direction.
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