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Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

2025-01-09

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Elena Marsh (Intel Desk)

Markets have priced the pause as resolution; the $18.1B equity outflow and $7.86B money market inflow suggest retail investors are less convinced.

The market is pricing a de-escalation scenario. The data says the conflict's underlying triggers remain unresolved. The gap is the trade. Oil dropped more than 2% on the pause announcement per CNBC reporting, and WTI had already pulled back sharply in the prior session with Brent down 8.7% to $88.36/barrel as of Monday's close — that is a significant demand-shock pricing reversal that assumes the pause becomes a deal. But ICI fund flow data this week shows $18.1 billion net outflow from equity funds against a $7.86 billion inflow to money market funds — retail is not rotating back into risk. Real GDP for 2026Q1 came in at +2.1% SAAR after 2025Q4's near-stall at +0.5%, which means the economy has some buffer, but a resumed conflict that spikes energy prices would eat directly into that recovery. The ammunition-reserves question Trump deflected is also a fiscal signal — procurement surge spending would hit the deficit at exactly the moment S 5019, the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act, is the most-viewed legislation in Congress, not defense appropriations.

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