Monday's session had one dominant story and it came from the United Nations, not the data calendar. Trump's signal that he is "probably open" to meeting Iranian President Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York was enough to push oil into a fourth consecutive session of losses, with WTI dropping below $100 for the first time since August. Markets treated the possibility of diplomacy as the next best thing to an outcome, and the risk-on response was broad: equities rallied, chipmakers led, yields pulled back from 5%, and the dollar's post-Fed grip on FX loosened slightly without breaking.
The level that mattered today was $100 in WTI. It has now been broken to the downside on UNGA optimism, Saudi flow restoration, and improving Hormuz traffic data from US Central Command. Whether it stays broken depends entirely on what comes out of New York this week.
GBP/JPY pushed to 211.27 intraday before retreating, validating the yen-weakness thesis but denying subscribers the 209.00 entry the morning briefing specified. The 157.50 abandonment level in USD/JPY is now 27 pips away, and with Tokyo closed until Thursday, the pair has two more sessions of thin yen liquidity to navigate before institutional counter-flow returns.
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