Rates, commodities, and the animal spirits.
Brent crude rose above $100 a barrel on 23 July 2026 as France 24 reported Houthi action against shipping in the Red Sea and a fresh exchange of threats between Washington and Tehran, while two Polymarket contracts priced a U.S.–Iran ceasefire before month-end at roughly one in six.
Beijing's refiners have quietly turned the Strait of Hormuz scare into a buying opportunity, capping the price spike that US strikes on Iran were…
Four USAF strikes on Bandar Abbas and HIMARS-fired ATACMS out of Kuwait mark an escalation in the US air campaign against Iran, while AP tallies 16…
Two fulfilment centres belonging to Russia's largest online retailer were destroyed overnight, in an attack that turns a consumer-internet flagship…
Kuwaiti authorities report injuries and damage to vital oil infrastructure after repeated Iranian strikes, with a security academy also visibly hit,…
Trump Media is courting hedge funds with millisecond-fast access to the president's posts, a monetisation bet that turns a social feed into a paid…
A Reuters tally shows just three commodity ships transited the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. Carriers are already routing around it, and Gulf…
A candidate's death in Pune has reopened the political fight over India's most consequential medical entrance exam, days after the government quietly…
Moscow's foreign minister framed a maritime corridor as a global-trade question, not a regional one, signalling how energy chokepoints are now traded…
Tehran's deputy security minister says the Chilat crossing will be ready in ten days, the Mehran corridor needs sustained national attention, and…
Kyiv's Security Service says it hit eleven Russian-flagged commercial vessels in a single day, the latest blow to the maritime network propping up…
Reporting on 16 July 2026 says President Trump is leaning toward widening US operations against Iran, with Kharg Island and energy chokepoints back…
Damascus says security forces intercepted dozens of drones, anti-tank missiles and rockets hidden in an oil tanker near the Iraqi border on 7 July.…
Two road bridges and the city's railway junction were hit overnight, severing the overland links that move cargo and fuel to and from Iran's busiest…
A reported $60.50-a-share cash offer from Stripe and Advent sent PayPal up roughly 20% premarket on 15 July 2026, with prediction markets giving the…
On 16 July 2026 Punjab police deployed lathi-charge, teargas and water cannons against MGNREGA workers demanding wage and work-clearance dues,…
An Iran-aligned Iraqi coalition has publicly offered $10 million for the killing of Donald Trump, a declaration that Western newsrooms have yet to…
Tehran's Revolutionary Guards say they intercepted an MQ-9 over Andimeshk on 16 July 2026, hours after warning that no Gulf hydrocarbon would leave…
Athens is delaying the EU's 21st sanctions package because a proposed ban on transporting Russian LNG to third countries would hit Greek shipowners,…
The Treasury unveiled a $1 gold coin bearing Donald Trump to mark America's 250th birthday. The numismatics are unusual; the politics are louder.
The U.S. Treasury unveiled a $1 gold coin bearing Donald Trump's image to mark 250 years of independence, hours before the President said strikes on…
Bangladesh rolls out a single QR standard across banks and wallets while Vietnam courts foreign capital for a decade-long buildout, with a…
Beijing's second-quarter expansion undershot the official target, and a war-driven oil premium is rewriting the demand-versus-exports arithmetic…
For the first time in two decades, Warren Buffett's annual charitable stock gift excluded the Gates Foundation, weeks after Bill Gates testified…
Berkshire Hathaway's chairman admits he waited too long on Alphabet and warns that the tape now rewards gamblers over investors. The two statements…
