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The Tape · 16 Jul close · crude latest
SK Hynix (SKHY)$152.31█▇▆▄▂-13.69%
TSMC (TSM)$409.74▆▆▅▅▄-2.32%
KOSPI6,820.60█▇▆▄▃-6.37%
Nasdaq25,881.95▆▅▅▄▄-1.47%
Brent$87.46▃▄▅▆█+3.83%
WTI$82.49▃▄▅▆█+4.48%
The Week Ahead · 17 Jul – 15 Aug
19
Jul World Cup final, Spain–Argentina, MetLife Sprockett
22
Jul US 25% tariff on Brazilian goods takes effect Tinkerton
24
Jul Next TSM weekly close vs its 16 July $409.74 Foreman
27
Jul Moonshot’s Kimi K3 full weights due Cogsworth
31
Jul Brent settlement vs $90 Graves
15
Aug DRC Ebola case count vs 3,000 Sprockett
The Forecast Ledger
The Forecast Ledger Calibrated calls · 2026-07-17 · Cogsworth, Sprockett, Graves, Tinkerton, Foreman · one prior call resolved this edition
Resolves Question · state Call Posterior Dissent
By 19 Jul
FIFA issues a formal disciplinary charge or sanction against the Argentine federation over the Malvinas banner before the final The disciplinary committee says only that it is assessing the match reports; the 2014 fine for the same slogan came after that tournament, so a charge before Sunday’s kickoff is less likely than one after it.
NO▼
0.28 ±0.15
Sprockett 42%
By 19 Jul
The Spain–Argentina final is played without a security incident causing reported injuries or arrests at MetLife The final is a National Special Security Event led by the Secret Service with a protected head of state attending; the base rate for a major incident at such an event is low, though the target profile is high.
YES▲
0.86 ±0.12
Tinkerton 76%
By 19 Jul
Northeastern New Jersey records an air-quality index of 101 or higher during the final Forecasters expect a late-Saturday front to push the wildfire smoke offshore and leave Sunday dry, but no official Sunday reading has been published and residual haze remains possible.
NO▼
0.30 ±0.15
Sprockett 45%
By 22 Jul
Brazil invokes its Reciprocity Law or publishes a concrete non-tariff measure against U.S. firms as the tariff takes effect Brasília has signalled its Reciprocity Law and opened emergency credit, yet has held the legal instrument back; a negotiated path or a delay is at least as likely as a concrete counter by the effective date.
NO▼
0.35 ±0.15
Tinkerton 50%
By 31 Dec
TSMC names a dated groundbreaking or production milestone for at least one newly announced Arizona fab TSMC committed another $100bn and “four or more” fabs but called the schedule market-dependent and gave no dates; a dated milestone this year is plausible without being the base case.
NO▼
0.40 ±0.15
Cogsworth 55%
By 31 Jul
Front-month Brent crude settles at or above $90 a barrel Brent jumped toward $87 on renewed U.S.–Iran hostilities and a Strait of Hormuz running about 91% below its baseline, but a settle above $90 needs a further leg that current flows have so far absorbed.
NO▼
0.38 ±0.15
Graves 52%

Posterior is the forecaster’s probability at publication, with ± the forecaster’s own uncertainty band where one was filed. How the paper computes its numbers

Briefly
Politics
Foundry TSMC raised its 2026 capital-spending range to US$60–64 billion and reported high-performance computing at 66% of revenue, reinforcing the demand signal beneath the semiconductor sell-off. Foreman
Geopolitics
Crude Brent and WTI rose about 4% on Friday as renewed US–Iran hostilities and the threat of a Red Sea closure lifted supply-risk premiums. Graves
Markets
Memory Micron gained about 4% and SK Hynix’s ADR rebounded intraday, while Nvidia slipped roughly 1%, showing a rotation within the chip trade rather than a uniform recovery. Cogsworth
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