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Every sweep records what the previous one expected and whether it was right. Entries are appended, never rewritten; an open question stays visible until a later sweep resolves it.

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Recorded 1 November 2026

v11 · 1 November 2026 sweep

Cluster: ELEVATED · 13 entries
Confirmed
The ceasefire could not stabilise
Collapsed 7–8 July; Strait formally closed again 26 October.
Confirmed
Strategic inversion of the Iran war
Iran closed Hormuz at will with its navy destroyed and economy shrinking by a quarter. Brent $117.
Confirmed
Chip war as the central fault line — now a financing question
$732bn 2026 capex; negative FCF at Alphabet, Meta, Oracle; ~$450bn AI debt; Nasdaq 100 −$2trn in October.
Confirmed
Gulf multi-alignment hardening into institutions
Mecca Joint Defence Agreement (Saudi–Pakistan–Turkey), 7 August — without the US.
New
Sovereign stress arrived in Europe, not the US
France 10y above Italy and Greece; widest spread since 2011; Fitch negative; ECB TPI unusable.
Open
Rare-earth truce: legally extended before 9–10 Nov, or technical snap-back?
Politically extended to 10 Jan 2027; no MOFCOM/BIS instrument as of 29 Oct.
Still open — carried forward
Open
Fed hiking into a $2trn deficit: doom loop operating or postponed?
Arithmetic intact; market reaction the opposite of expected.
Still open — carried forward
Open
October's rotation: start of the capital-cycle unwind or a correction?
Nasdaq −5%, defensives +10%, insiders selling. One month is not sustained.
Still open — carried forward
Open
Ukraine freeze on current lines at a mid-November trilateral?
Oslo 20 Oct, St Petersburg 21 Oct; Zelensky accepts a freeze with guarantees.
Still open — carried forward
Falsified
Continued dollar weakness
DXY firmed into 100–102 after the September hike; no capital-leaving episode confirmed.
Falsified
Gold as the monetary-stress barometer
−30% from January peak to a 52-week low, inverse to the dollar as the conventional model says.
Falsified
BRICS Unit as a near-term institution
Not mentioned at New Delhi; no payments architecture; India's own proposal omitted.
Overtaken
UK–US rupture as a structural fact
It was personal. Starmer resigned 22 June; Burnham and Trump 'can do business'. Policy strains remain.

Earlier sweeps without a data file in this series: v10 · Dan · 11 June 2026 re-swept — pre-repo sweep; tally 0 confirmed / 1 probable / 1 partial / 2 early-warning / 1 watch / 15 inactive. Their verdicts live in the white paper editions.