Oxford Ledge — markets, SEC filings, and free finance lessons. Monday, July 27th.
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Today's headlines
Energy shock: why oil and gas prices have risen less than expected
Capacity management reaches limits on US container trades says Xeneta (Seatrade Maritime)
Start with a lesson
No account needed — the lessons are free. Begin with how the market actually works, in plain English, a few minutes at a time.
From the reading list — Book
Jim Collins: “Good to Great”
BDC universe
Business-development companies are private-credit funds that file their loan books quarterly. Most-held borrower across BDCs: Integrity Marketing Acquisition, LLC, Diversified Financial Services — Insurance (8 BDCs have reported exposure).
13F holdings
Large investment funds must disclose their U.S. stock holdings every quarter. Baupost Group opened a new ~$248M position in Aon (AON).
Carl Icahn exited its ~$483M stake in Southwest Gas Holdings (SWX).
Markets
10-year sits at 4.71% — up 52 bps from the year's open.
What’s new
- The pulse bar now reads credit, rates, and goldThe always-on market strip grew three signals: the 10-year Treasury yield with its one-day move in bps, the ICE BofA high-yield credit spread (end-of-day, in bps), and GLD.
- Markets opens with a plain-English read of the dayA new Day's Ledger paragraph narrates today's tape from two public numbers - the S&P 500's one-day move and the VIX - with fixed regime labels and a methodology page documenting the exact thresholds.
- The concept map behind the curriculum, now publicBrowse all 105 concepts across 11 domains - each with the one-line intuition we most want you to remember - and see how the Bayesian mastery model tracks every one per learner.