{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hunchline: The Morning Line","title":"Tuesday, July 14th 2026 — KORU Dips and H&M Rips | July 14, 2026","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ae0013dc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1445,"description":"Show Notes — 2026-07-14\nMarkets took a beating on Monday as Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade threat sent oil surging three percent and crushed tech. The South Korea leveraged ETF collapsed nearly twenty-five percent, semiconductors and AI names got wrecked, and gold dropped in a counterintuitive flight-to-cash move. Meanwhile, France is simultaneously hosting a World Cup semi-final, battling a record heatwave, cutting nuclear capacity, and fighting a forest fire near Paris — all on Bastille Day.\n**In This Episode**\n- **Hormuz Blockade Threat** — Trump's plan to reinstate shipping fees on the Strait of Hormuz sent oil up three percent and triggered a broad tech selloff\n- **KORU Collapse** — South Korea's leveraged bull ETF dropped nearly twenty-five percent in a single session, the biggest mover of the day\n- **Semiconductor Bloodbath** — SOXL down fourteen percent, Astera Labs and Applovin each down twelve-plus percent on Hormuz anxiety and AI rotation\n- **Bangkok Bar Fire** — Thirty dead after a fire at a Bangkok music pub; twenty-four remain in critical condition as police probe negligence\n- **Germany Speech Law** — German parliament moving to criminalize denying Israel's right to exist, raising major free speech concerns\n- **France Heatwave and Nuclear Cuts** — France cutting six point four gigawatts of nuclear capacity because cooling water is too warm during record heat\n- **World Cup Semi-Finals** — England vs Argentina on Wednesday in Atlanta with heightened security; France vs Spain prediction markets at near coin-flip\n- **Pentagon UFO Files** — Fourth batch of classified UAP documents released by the Department of Defense with minimal press coverage\n- **Wimbledon** — Tennis scores trending at number one as Wimbledon draws massive search traffic\n**Market Board**\n- **S&P 500** — $749.17 (-0.77%)\n- **NASDAQ** — $711.74 (-1.90%)\n- **Bitcoin** — $62,484 (-0.74%)\n- **Ethereum** — $1,779.96 (-0.24%)\n- **Solana** — $74.88 (-1.98%)\n- **Gold (GLD)** — $367.13...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VTclNSNN5T2qVCHAGT4x9ZWkY97K0FSA60flBDOQCJM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wY2Q1/ZWFiMDkzYWNhYjQ4/ZTIxZDBmM2VmZmZh/NjA5ZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}