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"We are entering a summer of the bond market," MUFG chief macro strategist George Goncalves said on "Bloomberg Surveillance." He says falling oil prices will smooth the way for a rally in fixed income.

US retail sales jumped in May as the value of retail purchases rose 0.9% after a revised 0.4% increase in April as consumer demand remained resilient. The figures are not adjusted for inflation. Michael McKee reports on Bloomberg Television.

Bob McNally, founder and president at Rapidan Energy Group, says oil is "oversold," but he expects the markets to retrace as he examines reaction to the interim deal between the US and Iran.

For decades, the global transition to renewable energy was a project of incrementalism — a slow-moving mosaic of carbon taxes, solar subsidies, and earnest international accords that often felt more aspirational than urgent. 

Policy wonks argued over the nuances of the Inflation Reduction Act, while climate activists lamented the glacial pace of the "energy pivot."

For the better part of a decade, the gilded youth of the financial world — the "crypto-native" generation — dismissed gold as a "boomer rock." 

To them, the heavy, yellow metal was an analog relic, a petrous souvenir of an era before the lightning-fast efficiency of the blockchain. 

For years, the global defence industry existed in a sort of polite exile. 

In the era of ESG mandates and the "peace dividend," shares in weapons manufacturers were often treated as the "tobacco stocks" of the new millennium — profitable, perhaps, but unseemly.