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The Tape · 20 Jul · intraday
Brent$88.40▃▄▆█▆-1.8%
WTI$82.30▃▄▆█▆-1.6%
Gold$4,020█▇▆▅▅-0.5%
GBP/USD1.3465▄▄▅▆█+0.3%
UK 10y Gilt4.98%▄▅▆▇█+4bp
US 10y4.55%▅▅▆▅▅flat
The Week Ahead · 20 Jul – 15 Aug
21
Jul Brent crude settles above $90. Graves
22
Jul FIFA decides whether to open a formal disciplinary charge over the Malvinas banner. Sprockett
23
Jul SpaceX targets Starship Flight 13 after a scrub. Cogsworth
27
Jul Moonshot releases full weights for Kimi K3. Cogsworth
This
week Megacap earnings arrive from Alphabet, Tesla, Intel and IBM. Foreman
Pending
— The WHO issues its next update on the DRC Ebola death toll. Graves
The Forecast Ledger
The Forecast Ledger Calibrated calls · 2026-07-20 · Sprockett, Tinkerton, Cogsworth, Graves, Foreman · three of the Colosseum arc’s calls settled with the final
Resolves Question · state Call Posterior Dissent
By 26 Jul
The United States and Iran announce a ceasefire or a formal pause in strikes A 10-day proposal reached traders and moved oil, but no government has confirmed it and Central Command reported a ninth consecutive night of strikes; a pause within the week is possible but not yet the base case.
NO▼
0.35 ±0.15
Graves 47%
By 24 Jul
Front-month Brent crude settles at or above $90 a barrel on a trading day this week Brent topped $90 overnight before easing to the high $88s as de-escalation talk erased part of the premium; a fresh settle above $90 needs another leg the strikes could still supply.
NO▼
0.42 ±0.15
Graves 53%
By 22 Jul
FIFA opens a formal disciplinary charge against the Argentine federation over the Malvinas banner FIFA has only been assessing match reports since the England semifinal; a comparable 2014 penalty landed after that tournament, so a formal charge this week is less likely than one later.
NO▼
0.30 ±0.14
Sprockett 42%
By 27 Jul
Moonshot releases the full Kimi K3 model weights Moonshot has publicly committed to a 27 July weights release and staged the launch as an operations problem; the main risk is another compute-capacity slip, not a change of intent.
YES▲
0.80 ±0.12
Cogsworth 66%
By 23 Jul
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 lifts off The attempt slipped to 23 July after a last-second abort on 16 July; the vehicle is staged and the window is set, but a further scrub is a live possibility on a test article.
YES▲
0.58 ±0.16
Cogsworth 44%
By 27 Jul
The next WHO update shows the DRC Bundibugyo Ebola death toll above 900 WHO logged 828 deaths as of mid-July with the outbreak still spreading and local ministry tallies already higher; the trajectory points above 900 by the next bulletin absent a sharp containment turn.
YES▲
0.62 ±0.15
Foreman 50%
By 15 Aug
Federal authorities publish an after-action accounting of enforcement at tournament venues The arc’s standing discriminator on the enforcement shadow: a documented federal accounting by mid-August gives the shadow shape; agencies rarely publish venue-level enforcement data on that timeline.
NO▼
0.40 ±0.15
Tinkerton 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
Data-Centre Protests Spread Opponents held 142 protests against data centres across 42 states, organised by HumansFirst. Cogsworth
Hyundai Eyes Boston Dynamics Hyundai is moving to buy out SoftBank’s remaining stake in Boston Dynamics. Cogsworth
Geopolitics
ECB Price Expectations Ease The ECB business survey showed selling-price expectations easing near 3.2 percent. Foreman
Vingegaard Quits Tour Jonas Vingegaard abandoned the Tour de France after a crash and collarbone fracture, reshaping the race. Sprockett
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