The market is treating the U.S.–Venezuela situation as an energy headline.
That’s surface-level.
The more important development is what this removes from the system: a quiet, persistent margin support that global manufacturing — particularly China — has benefited from for years. Energy isn’t just an input. It’s a constraint. And when that constraint tightens, growth math changes faster than most models assume.
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