War escalation, jobs report fallout, and Oracle earnings: What to watch this week

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• The effects of the war are nonlinear. For every day the energy shock continues, the worse its effects on the market will be.

  80% confidence

• The oil price shock, depending on how long it lasts, is a real thing

  80% confidence

• The Block layoffs were due to artificial intelligence

  80% confidence

• The tough February jobs month should be read with January's surge as two swings from special factors

  80% confidence

• Roughly one-fifth of the world's seaborne oil supply crosses through the Strait in normal times

  80% confidence

• It's too early to get a read on the long tail of oil's climb

  80% confidence

• A bifurcated market — slower macro growth paired with accelerating technological transformation

  80% confidence

• The jobs report is a bracing splash of cold water for investors who assumed that the US economy could emerge unscathed from both the AI productivity revolution and capricious government policy zigzags

  80% confidence

• It's too early to get a read on the long tail of oil's climb

  80% confidence

• Without an agreement and a fast cessation of all kinetic activity, the crude market will begin to break in days, and not in weeks or months. A few weeks of Hormuz closure will create a domino effect of events that could push crude to $150 or higher.

  80% confidence

• Roughly 16 million barrels of oil are in limbo due to Strait of Hormuz transit halt

  80% confidence

• In scenarios where oil prices remain elevated for several months, year-over-year headline inflation could temporarily climb back toward 3%

  80% confidence

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