# Week in Review: Strait expectations Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/reuters-morning-bid-7596246/week-in-review-strait-expectations Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/reuters-morning-bid-7596246/week-in-review-strait-expectations.md Podcast: [Reuters Morning Bid](https://stenobird.com/podcast/reuters-morning-bid-7596246) Published: 2026-04-18T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THRH6876029554.mp3?updated=1776441288 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THRH6876029554.mp3?updated=1776441288 Processing state: processed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reuters-morning-bid-7596246/episodes/week-in-review-strait-expectations Duration seconds: 428 ## Resource Oil slides as Iran signals shipping access through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. banks post solid earnings and China beats growth forecasts. Subscribe to Mike Dolan's Morning Bid newsletter, and check out his columns on Reuters Open Interest Produced by Eliza Davis Beard, Ethan Plotkin, and Abisoye Adelusi Sound engineering and music by Sebastian and Josh Sommer Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reuters-morning-bid-7596246/episodes/week-in-review-strait-expectations/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/reuters-morning-bid-7596246/week-in-review-strait-expectations.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.