Prepare for a concentrated, liquidity-driven market rotation. Middle East tensions pushed Brent toward $100.
Global Investment Views (August 2026): tensions in the Middle East have risen again. Doubts over a ceasefire pushed Brent crude back toward $100 a barrel.
The core message is to prepare for a concentrated, liquidity-driven rotation — do not treat first-half crowded trades as a second-half allocation.
Read alongside RVS’s third-quarter outlook: U.S. credit and alternative credit on one side, global macro rotation and energy shocks on the other.
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