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  1. 11 JunFive stories the markets are pricing at once, and what each one is really sayingletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 5 minletters
  2. 10 JunUS strikes on southern Iran focus on air defences, radars and drone C2 — and the retaliation clock startsletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  3. 10 JunA presidential compliment, and the subtext behind it: Trump on Modi's record runletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 minletters
  4. 10 JunThe Iran Pressure Campaign Tilts Into the Open: What Trump's Tuesday Rhetoric Actually Tells Usletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 7 minletters
  5. 10 JunOil at $85 and a Bomber's Apology: Reading the President's Iran Remarksletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  6. 10 JunThird wave of US strikes reported against southern Iran as air defences take the bruntletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  7. 10 JunA supersized World Cup, a shrinking welcomeletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 5 minletters
  8. 10 JunStrait of Hormuz confrontation pushes US–Iran toward open escalation as oil corridor wobblesletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 5 minletters
  9. 10 JunA screwworm flap, a wall, and a court seat: three under-covered signals from the US-Mexico lineletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 5 minletters
  10. 10 JunPoznań's summer repair crew goes viral — and the joke is doing the work the policy can'tletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · europe · 5 minletters
  11. 10 JunPezeshkian rejects 'surrender through airpower' as Iran weighs response to assassinationsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  12. 10 JunPezeshkian tells physicians Iran's enemies are 'dreaming of surrender' as he defends wartime footingletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  13. 10 JunLetters: Gold, the dollar, and the quiet rebalancing readers are watchingletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 5 minletters
  14. 10 JunIsraeli strikes hit western Bekaa for third time in 24 hours, Lebanese and Iranian outlets sayletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 5 minletters
  15. 10 JunTehran threatens Gulf states after strikes on US assets as diplomacy goes darkletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  16. 10 JunIran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed, putting a fifth of global oil traffic on noticeletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 6 minletters
  17. 10 JunFour signals on 10 June 2026: inflation re-accelerates, AI displaces buy-side analysts, DHS tightens the immigration line, and oil inventories thinletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 6 minletters
  18. 09 JunA tournament arrives — and so do the questions it cannot dodgeletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 5 minletters
  19. 09 JunTrump claims Iran deal in 'final steps' even as he vows 'complete victory' within weeksletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  20. 09 JunSpurs edge Knicks 115-111 in Game 3 as politics intrudes on the floorletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 5 minletters
  21. 09 JunSpaceX's record $150bn IPO book meets a diversifying industrial footprintletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 4 minletters
  22. 09 JunA Crocs-wearing militant and a settlement breach: what the 9 June Margaliot incident actually tells usletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  23. 09 JunLetters: A dinosaur handbag, a driving examiner, and the new absurdletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · letters · 4 minletters
  24. 09 JunKhan Sir walks: why a Patna court's protection of a coaching-empire YouTuber says more about India's digitalised public sphere than about the firing case itselfletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 minletters
  25. 09 JunExplosions reported across southern Iran as US strikes reported under wayletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 3 minletters
  26. 09 JunA day in India's paperwork: RBI's swap window, Nagpur's nutrition AI, and the Jharkhand court's rape-survivor guidelinesletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 7 minletters
  27. 09 JunIndia's defence bill crossed $90bn last year. Where the money is going is the more interesting storyletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 5 minletters
  28. 09 JunHumanity Protocol loses tens of millions as private-key compromise wipes out nearly all of the H token's valueletters · Monexus Staff Writer · markets · 4 minletters
  29. 09 JunHezbollah frames Iran's missile response as a defence of Lebanon, in a tightening axis of statementsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  30. 09 JunClarity Act week opens under law-enforcement cloud as Japan’s SBI Shinsei pays depositors in BTC, ETH, XRPletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 5 minletters
  31. 09 JunBankman-Fried's pardon bid lands in a White House that has been generous with clemencyletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 4 minletters
  32. 09 JunTehran's warning to Washington: leave, or live with the riskletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  33. 09 JunAirlines, arsenals and supertankers: four micro-signals from 8 Juneletters · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 5 minletters
  34. 09 JunThe AI Layoff That Came Back: Why Companies Are Rehiring the People They Cutletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 4 minletters
  35. 08 JunTyre strike lands minutes after Iranian warning, reviving the south-Lebanon escalation clockletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  36. 08 JunTrump to Israel, Iran: 'stop shooting' as truce fraysletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 4 minletters
  37. 08 JunA blockade extended, a war of words on Polymarket: reading the Trump foreign-policy signals of 8 June 2026letters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 4 minletters
  38. 08 JunNvidia's buy-the-dip chorus: when the bellwether tells the room to relaxletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 4 minletters
  39. 08 JunAn open letter on a morning of sirens: Al-Kharj, the Yemen-to-Israel launch, and the limits of OSINTletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  40. 08 JunLetters: On broken promises, melting ice, and the public squareletters · Monexus Staff Writer · letters · 4 minletters
  41. 08 JunThe Letters Desk: When the news cycle splits in five directions at onceletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 4 minletters
  42. 08 JunCeasefire, not closure: Israel and Iran reopen the air as Netanyahu keeps the war in the drawerletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  43. 08 JunIran launches missile strikes on Israel as airspace closure looms and a US-brokered deal hangs in the balanceletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  44. 08 JunIran declares operations paused after strikes on Israel, as Washington declines to join the air defenceletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  45. 08 JunThe Iran 'halt' that isn't: how a Lebanon clause turns a ceasefire into a clockletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  46. 08 JunApple's WWDC moment lands in a year of parental panic and prediction marketsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 4 minletters
  47. 08 JunApple's AI Siri finally arrives — and the market shrugsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 4 minletters
  48. 07 JunA 74-year-old's wardrobe, a methanol ship, and a daylight slap: the week the algorithm set the agendaletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 6 minletters
  49. 07 JunRead the data, not the headlines: a letter on the crypto tapeletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 5 minletters
  50. 07 JunLetter from the desk: reading Tehran's 20:20 UTC warning to Israelletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 5 minletters
  51. 07 JunLetter to the Editor: The Market Is Rerouting, the Data Isn't Followingletters · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 4 minletters
  52. 07 JunIran's missiles, Israel's ultimatum: reading the 7 June escalationletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 4 minletters
  53. 07 JunFive market signals, one rotationletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Global · 5 minletters
  54. 07 JunThe AI cheque and the Bitcoin outflow: reading the rotationletters · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 5 minletters
  55. 06 JunSpaceX's $920M Google deal reframes the IPO as an infrastructure playletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 5 minletters
  56. 06 JunSpaceX's $75bn IPO draws a line through Hong Kong capitalletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 minletters
  57. 06 JunThe stablecoin convergence: when the dollar rail eats the chainletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Global · 5 minletters
  58. 06 JunFrom the Letters Desk: Iran Strikes Kuwait, and the Gulf Calculus Tiltsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 5 minletters
  59. 06 JunIranian missiles intercepted over Bahrain and Kuwait as Gulf air defences activateletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  60. 06 JunA Gaza City tent strike, eight reported dead, and the channels shaping the first hoursletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  61. 06 JunEighteen soldiers and a word: notes from the southern Lebanon 'ceasefire'letters · Monexus Staff Writer · MENA · 4 minletters
  62. 06 JunDear Voter: A Letter on the Architecture Being Built in Your Nameletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 4 minletters
  63. 06 JunThe AI capex machine is eating Bitcoin's bidletters · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 5 minletters
  64. 05 JunXi's thought, machine-readable and Pyongyang-boundletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · asia · 5 minletters
  65. 05 JunUS Treasury sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel directly, in Rubio's latest pressure on Havanaletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Americas · 6 minletters
  66. 05 JunSpaceX locks out Chinese investors while Beijing tightens Hong Kong's tapsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 minletters
  67. 05 JunNaval drone detonates inside Romania's Constanta portletters · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 4 minletters
  68. 05 JunPeskov's Letter, Putin's Pretext, and Trump's Five-Word Doctrineletters · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 5 minletters
  69. 05 JunExplosions reported on Kharg Island as Iran denies any air-defence activityletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  70. 05 JunA tax code at last — and a market that can't catch a bidletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 5 minletters
  71. 05 JunDear retail investor: a letter on the SpaceX IPOletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 4 minletters
  72. 05 Jun172,000, twice: a strong May payrolls print and a leveraged crypto unwind on the same 5 Juneletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 4 minletters
  73. 04 JunZelensky's open letter to Putin: a direct ask, an absent replyletters · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 5 minletters
  74. 04 JunTrump's 4 June Iran Statements: A Letter from the Newsroomletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  75. 04 JunQassem's defiance, and the deal he can't vetoletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 3 minletters
  76. 04 JunA Letter to the Bitcoin Believer Who Isn't Listeningletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Americas · 5 minletters
  77. 04 JunBomb-grade uranium, a 215-208 vote, and the Lebanon fileletters · Monexus Staff Writer · MENA · 4 minletters
  78. 04 JunHouse votes 215-208 to curb Trump's Iran war powers; veto fight loomsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 5 minletters
  79. 04 JunHezbollah claims 25 operations in 24 hours, all clustered around a single Crusader fortressletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 5 minletters
  80. 03 JunUkraine hits St. Petersburg oil terminal 1,100 km from borderletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Europe · 5 minletters
  81. 03 JunA staff note on Trump's Hezbollah admission, the Iran confession, and the ocean cutletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 5 minletters
  82. 03 JunSame Day, Same Trade: Bitcoin, the ETP, and the AI Executive Orderletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 5 minletters
  83. 03 JunSirens in Misgav Am: A Border Alert and the Telegram Vacuum Around Itletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 4 minletters
  84. 03 JunMicrosoft's 72-hour news dump and the 9% problemletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · tech · 4 minletters
  85. 03 JunLetter: Qeshm, Hormuz, and the word 'self-defense'letters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  86. 03 JunKuwait boots two Iranian diplomats after airport strike, in the sharpest Gulf signal of the widening warletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Gulf / West Asia · 5 minletters
  87. 03 JunIran rejects Rubio's allegations as 'baseless' — the US side of the exchange has not yet surfacedletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  88. 03 JunIran's navy claims strike on U.S. destroyer in Sea of Oman; Pentagon silentletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  89. 03 JunA War the House Won't Let Run Itselfletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Washington, D.C. · 5 minletters
  90. 03 JunFidan's diplomatic sales pitch: Türkiye, the reliable middle power the multipolar moment forgot to orderletters · Monexus Staff Writer · europe · 4 minletters
  91. 03 JunBitcoin's $67,000 slide is a liquidity story, not a panicletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · markets · 4 minletters
  92. 03 JunAraghchi fuses Lebanon and Iran into a single war — and routes the demand through Pakistanletters · Monexus Staff Writer · Middle East · 5 minletters
  93. 02 JunTrump-Netanyahu Rift Over Lebanon Exposes Deeper Friction in US-Israel Alignmentletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  94. 02 JunTrump Maintains Iran Port Blockade as Tokyo Seeks Hormuz Carve-Outletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  95. 02 JunStrategy's First Bitcoin Sale Exposes the Fragility of Corporate Treasury Doctrineletters · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 4 minletters
  96. 02 JunMt. Gox Moves $739M in Bitcoin as Volatility Compresses Toward Breakoutletters · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 2 minletters
  97. 02 JunMoscow's Three-Front Signal: Hacking Claims, Syrian Logistics, and Gulf Economics in One Morningletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · EURASIA · 4 minletters
  98. 02 JunA letter on Microsoft's announcement day, and the 9% the market won't give itletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Americas · 4 minletters
  99. 02 JunIsraeli Airstrikes Hit Southern Lebanon Targets, Escalating Border Tensionsletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  100. 02 JunThe Dragon Boats Cannot Save Hong Kong's Economy By Themselvesletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 minletters
  101. 02 JunHezbollah Signals Ceasefire Openness as Trump Declares 'Good Call' — But Iran Blockade Staysletters · Monexus Staff Writer · MENA · 5 minletters
  102. 02 JunHezbollah footage puts northern Israel settlements in crosshairs as media war deepensletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · Middle East · 4 minletters
  103. 02 JunCrypto Leverage Unwinds as Bitcoin Drops Below $68,000 and Consumer Credit Hits Recordletters · Monexus Staff Writer · global · 4 minletters
  104. 02 JunBitcoin Falls Below $68,000 as Trump Signs AI Order — Same Day, Two Signalsletters · Monexus Staff Writer · north-america · 3 minletters
  105. 02 JunBitcoin Selloff Puts $70K Support to the Test as Institutional Buying Offsets Mt. Gox Pressureletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 4 minletters
  106. 02 JunAnnamalai's Uncertain Orbit: What the BJP's Stranded Leader Tells Us About Party-Building in Tamil Naduletters · Monexus Staff Writer · south-asia · 5 minletters
  107. 01 JunUS Intercepts Iranian Ballistic Missiles Targeting Forces in Kuwaitletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 5 minletters
  108. 01 JunSouth Korea and Japan Find Common Ground on the Back of an AI Chip Boomletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 minletters
  109. 01 JunThe $6.2 Million Crypto Fraud Case That Exposes AI's Liability Problemletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 4 minletters
  110. 01 JunThe SEC Filing Season That Isn't: Why SpaceX, Anthropic, and Powell's Warning Signal Something Biggerletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · americas · 4 minletters
  111. 01 JunRussia launches mass drone and cruise missile strike on Kyiv as tensions escalateletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · europe · 3 minletters
  112. 01 JunThe Polymarket Signal: Prediction Markets Are Now Reading Political Intelligence Faster Than the Wiresletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 5 minletters
  113. 01 JunThe Persistence of the Stars: Why Mainstream Media Keeps Publishing Horoscopesletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 4 minletters
  114. 01 JunLetters: When Sirens Become Background Noiseletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 5 minletters
  115. 01 JunJapan Releases Eight Crested Ibises in Ishikawa as Recovery Programme Hits Critical Junctureletters · Monexus Staff Writer · asia · 4 minletters
  116. 01 JunIran's Al-Dhafra Strike Tests the Limits of US-Gulf Deterrenceletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  117. 01 JunHezbollah Launches Ballistic Missile at IDF Position in Southern Lebanonletters · Monexus Staff Writer · mena · 4 minletters
  118. 01 JunFrance and Allies Seize Russian Oil Tanker in Atlantic in Sanctions Enforcement Escalationletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · europe · 5 minletters
  119. 01 JunEscalation at the Strait: Oil Markets React as US and Iran Trade Strikes Near Hormuzletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 4 minletters
  120. 01 JunCrypto's $500 Billion Reckoning: Leverage, Lobbying, and the Dollar's Long Goodbyeletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · global · 4 minletters
  121. 01 JunBeirut on Edge as Israel Expands Lebanon Push and Iran Succession Strains Regional Orderletters · Moemedi Michael Poncana · mena · 5 minletters
  122. 01 JunAnthropic's IPO Filing Suggests AI's Industrial Moment Has Arrivedletters · Monexus Staff Writer · north_america · 4 minletters
  123. 01 JunAnthropic's IPO Filing Puts Early Marker in Competitive AI Sectorletters · Monexus Staff Writer · americas · 5 minletters