How I made this call

[fred/economic] US Dollar Index: 120.5315 (as of 2026-07-17)

[fred/economic] 10Y Inflation Breakeven: 2.25% (as of 2026-07-20)

[fred/economic] SOFR: 3.59% (as of 2026-07-17)

[wire_news/wire_news] [BBC World] Trump slaps 50% tariffs on Canada and Carney vows to 'intensify' trade talks SUMMARY: Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, US President Donald Trump (L), Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney (R). US President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on a wide range of goods imported…

[wire_news/wire_news] [BBC World] US launches fresh strikes on Iran, as Trump warns of retaliation for deaths of soldiers SUMMARY: Image source, US Central Command / XByJaroslav LukivPublished20 July 2026 The US military says it launched another round of strikes against Iran to "further degrade" its capabilities to…

[wire_news/wire_news] [BBC Business] VAT to be cut from household electricity bills in October SUMMARY: Image source, Getty ImagesByKevin PeacheyCost of living correspondentPublished10 minutes ago VAT will be cut from household electricity bills, the government has announced, as part of new prime minister Andy…

[wire_news/wire_news] [BBC Business] Trump slaps 50% tariffs on Canada and Carney vows to 'intensify' trade talks SUMMARY: Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, US President Donald Trump (L), Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney (R). US President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on a wide range of goods…

[wire_news/wire_news] [BBC Business] John Healey becomes chancellor weeks after shock resignation from defence job

[wire_news/wire_news] [BBC Business] Craft and keyboard: The trainees mastering tech and age-old skills

[wire_news/wire_news] [NPR] Powerball ticket sales begin Tuesday in the United Kingdom

[wire_news/wire_news] [NPR] FDA still focused on Taylor Farms lettuce as Cyclospora source despite retracted test

[wire_news/wire_news] [NPR] 10 things that wowed us at the 2026 World Cup

[wire_news/wire_news] [NYT World] Inside the Deadly U.S. Airstrike on a Shadow Fleet Tanker

[wire_news/wire_news] [NYT World] Another U.S. Service Member Is Killed as Iran War Expands

[wire_news/wire_news] [NYT World] In Venezuela’s Rubble, a Search for the Family Pets

[wire_news/wire_news] [NYT Business] Trump to Impose 50% Tariff on Many Canadian Goods

[wire_news/wire_news] [NYT Business] Andy Burnham, New UK Prime Minister, Names John Healey As Top Finance Official

[wire_news/wire_news] [NYT Business] Judge Temporarily Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

[wire_news/wire_news] [NYT Business] How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 62pts] Jane Street: Incremental SUMMARY: GitHub - janestreet/incremental: A library for incremental computations · GitHub Skip to content Sign in Appearance settings AI CODE CREATIONGitHub CopilotWrite better code with AI GitHub Copilot appDirect agents from issue to merge MCP…

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 469pts] Who's afraid of Chinese models? SUMMARY: Skip to content Stratechery Plus Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? There’s a story I tell about my first day in STRT-431 at Kellogg School of Management, the introductory class that every first-year MBA was required to take; I leafed through the…

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 92pts] Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding SUMMARY: Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding - Nikkei Asia Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise…

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 470pts] Kimi Work SUMMARY: Kimi Work: Next-Gen Desktop AI Agent for Knowledge WorkersKimiAll-in-one agentic AI workspaceKimi WorkAI desktop agent for knowledge workersKimi CodeAI code agent for terminal & IDEKimi WebBridgeA browser extension for AI agentsKimi PlatformAccess the latest Kimi…

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 412pts] Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls SUMMARY: Skip to components It's okay to bea little jelly Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for soft, tactile product interfaces. Real form controls meet soft-body physics, with dark mode, right-to-left…

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 283pts] Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 269pts] Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 228pts] Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 183pts] Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 100pts] I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

[hackernews/tech_sentiment] [HN 123pts] Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco