Rob Armstrong

Rob, like we were saying, you're just back from the FT Commodities shindig in Lausanne in Switzerland.

What are people there saying about how China has played its hand into this Iranian crisis?

Are we seeing some of that already, Joe?

Like, oh, hi, Vietnam.

Yeah, no, sure.

You can have some of our oil.

There might be some terms and conditions attached to that.

Is this happening yet?

Didn't work out.

It does a nice job of that, actually.

It's a good point.

Playing a very delicate game.

Joe, thank you for sharing your brain and your insight on this, because it's something that Rob and I know next to nothing about.

We are going to be back in just one second with Long Shorts.

Okie doke, it is time for Long, Short, that part of the show where we go long, a thing we love, or short, a thing we hate.

Rob, I'll start with you.

What you got?

Long Xi Jinping, spoken like a true Beijing correspondent.

I am, again, limit short prediction markets.

Story today that France's weather forecasting service has filed a police complaint after detecting anomalies in its temperature gauges at an airport in Paris, which seems to have something to do with bets made on sodding polymarket.