Big Picture · Week of 17 August 2026

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High-yield credit conditions are becoming more expensive, less enthusiastic, and more conditional, with Amazon’s $25 billion bond order book only 1.6 times covered.

Jeffrey Snider BEARISH

Eurodollar University. Money and credit creation, bank balance sheets, global dollar liquidity and deflationary regimes. Near-daily.

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Bullish

Editorial Representation of Benn Eifert

AI adoption across the middle of the curve faces bottlenecks beyond model capability, limiting how rapidly improving performance translates into broad deployment.

Editorial Representation of Keith McCullough

$OIH was the biggest winner yesterday despite being the only one among 29 longs down more than 1%, framing the decline as a tactical long opportunity.

Editorial Representation of Tom Lee

US equities are positioned for strong returns through September, implying a constructive near-term outlook for the S&P 500.

Editorial Representation of David Woo

Oil physical markets face tighter September-October supply as Japan replenishes depleted reserves, while futures pricing incorrectly signals abundance.

Editorial Representation of Peter Schiff

Gold should rise as inflation-fighting rate-hike rhetoric loses market influence and mounting pressure eventually forces more substantive policy action.

Bearish

Editorial Representation of Jeffrey Snider

High-yield credit conditions are becoming more expensive, less enthusiastic, and more conditional, with Amazon’s $25 billion bond order book only 1.6 times covered.

Editorial Representation of Steve Hanke

AI faces economic constraints because costly, resource-intensive deployment undermines assumptions that it can scale profitably like zero-marginal-cost software.

Editorial Representation of Brent Kochuba

Options markets are pricing only a ±0.6% $SPY move into Friday payrolls while bonds appear materially more concerned about the report.

Editorial Representation of Mohamed El-Erian

AI’s capital-market impact faces a bumpy road as borrowing costs, public resistance, and shallow adoption intensify internal and external pressures.

Editorial Representation of Lance Roberts

Bond yields are rising as oil, term premium, the yen, and other pressures weigh on fixed income ahead of the approaching FOMC meeting.

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Moved Since Yesterday

Editorial Representation of Adam Mancini Mancini · SPY
Adam Mancini
BEARISH BULLISH Week

S&P 500 futures reclaimed 7,637 and held 7,671 as support, leaving 7,681, 7,695, 7,704, and 7,714 as near-term upside levels.

Editorial Representation of David Keller Keller · Positioning & Vol
David Keller
BEARISH BULLISH Week

The MOVE index has spiked over the last week, signaling higher bond-market volatility and a developing risk warning for equities.

Editorial Representation of Lance Roberts Roberts · Positioning & Vol
Lance Roberts
BULLISH BEARISH Week

Implied correlations among S&P 500 constituents are at record-low levels for this time of year, signaling unusually compressed market risk pricing.

Editorial Representation of Jeffrey Snider Snider · USO
Jeffrey Snider
BULLISH BEARISH Month

Crude oil prices remain comparatively lower because refinery capacity cannot process enough additional barrels into the refined fuels now in shortage.

Editorial Representation of Darius Dale Dale · AI
Darius Dale
BULLISH BEARISH Year

The AI CapEx bubble is expected to peak before a secular bear market, making that bear-market outcome the overwhelming modal longer-term scenario.

Editorial Representation of Darius Dale Dale · Fed Policy
Darius Dale
BULLISH BEARISH Year

The monetary policy cycle is likely to remain a tailwind through the second half of 2027 or the first half of 2028.

Editorial Representation of Andreas Steno Larsen Steno Larsen · Fed Policy
Andreas Steno Larsen
BEARISH BULLISH Month

Fed policy should not tighten in response to an oil supply shock, particularly while core inflation continues trending softer.

Editorial Representation of Keith McCullough McCullough · HL
Keith McCullough
BULLISH BEARISH Week

$HL is being reduced into a green session, signaling a tactical trim rather than a fresh directional call.

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