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On Mornings with Maria, producers tied a very real commodity story to very big corporate balance-sheet moves: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) falling to what the hosts called an alarming level, and two megacap financing headlines, Intel's $15 billion stock offering and a report about Nvidia's roughly $500 billion AI financing construct. That pairing matters because oil-driven price risk and large equity issuance land in the same place: funding costs, margins, and valuation multiples. For anyone watching where market liquidity and real-world costs meet, this clip is a succinct alert.