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'Strikes, oil, and an 8% Polymarket quote: Hormuz risk re-prices after US–Iran
02 Sept
Google dodges ad-tech breakup as court orders narrower conduct fixes
02 Sept
Bond funds take paper as yields rise; the Treasury's coin lands in the same news cycle
02 Sept
Strikes resume, oil climbs, rate-cut bets deflate: a market caught between three fronts
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Business01 Sept
War-room channels flag unconfirmed acoustic alerts at Jordan's Salti base as US cites expanded Iran shipping…
Three open-source channels logged unverified acoustic reports near Muwaffaq Salti Air Base between 19:34 and 19:39 UTC on 1 September, while a…
Business01 Sept
Trump's Iran signals harden: nuclear strike ruled out, blockade priced to extend into November
Across a single Sunday evening, the US president ruled out a nuclear strike, vowed to "hit Iran hard," and touted a Venezuela deal as the "greatest…
Business01 Sept
US strikes IRGC targets near Strait of Hormuz as shipping attacks reopen the corridor
President Trump announced "large and powerful" strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz on 1 September 2026, with US Central Command…
Business01 Sept
Venezuela oil arrangement and JBS tariff lobbying land in the same Washington commodity window
A reported US-Venezuela oil arrangement and a JBS tariff ask reached the wire within hours of each other, and an oil rally on Iran threats ran…
Business01 Sept
JBS lobbying lands as US-China 'nonsensitive' carve-out takes shape
A Brazilian meatpacker co-owner's reported White House push on beef tariffs lands the same week Washington and Beijing quietly map which goods can be…
Business01 Sept
Gold steadies, oil climbs as Trump's Iran threats keep inflation hedges live
Gold held above $3,300 and Brent pushed back toward multi-week highs after two days of selling, as traders weighed fresh US threats against Iran…
Business01 Sept
West African crude softens and Britain flags a 'comprehensive' West Bank package on the same trading day
West African crude differentials to dated Brent widened on 1 September as buying interest cooled, on the same day British officials, identified by…
Business01 Sept
Shein's Hong Kong debut closes flat as the market writes down a $100bn private
Shein closed flat in Hong Kong on 1 September 2026 after sliding as much
Business01 Sept
Bond rout meets a sanctions swagger: Bessent's Japan visit lands as 10-year yields test crisis-era highs
A global bond sell-off is pushing 10-year yields to their highest since 2008, just as Washington's treasury secretary meets the BOJ governor and…
Business01 Sept
Beef, blockade probabilities, and Black Monday's cousins: Trump juggles three crises before the bell
Within a 12-hour window, Polymarket relayed claims about Trump's rhetoric on Iran, a Venezuela oil deal and discounts on more than 800 drugs, while a…
Economy01 Sept
Warsh tells G20 the savings glut is now an investment surge. The Fed is being told to look the other way on…
At a G20 finance meeting on 31 August 2026, Fed governor Kevin Warsh framed a long-running global savings overhang as an investment boom. Hours…
Business31 Aug
Bessent sets a weekly sanctions clock on Iran, with China kept as the open option
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told AP on 30 August 2026 that the US will sanction another bank this week and that new secondary sanctions on Iran…
Business31 Aug
Bessent Floats Weekly Sanctions Cadence on Iran as Treasury Splits Its Bets Between Beijing and Tehran
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says new secondary sanctions on Iran will land on a roughly weekly rhythm, with banks first in line, while he…
Business31 Aug
Iranian media report Saudi tanker Cedar stopped in Strait of Hormuz as oil
Iranian media say the 2-million-barrel Saudi tanker Cedar was stopped in
Business31 Aug
Iran's strait gambit meets a market already routing around it
Middle East producers are moving more crude through Hormuz while Iranian projectiles and a 37% Polymarket bet on tolls remind traders the chokepoint…
Business31 Aug
Bessent's New Doctrine: Sanctions as a Weekly Rhythm
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has signalled weekly secondary sanctions, possible China penalties, and an active hand in G20 currency politics,…
Business31 Aug
Oil and equities rerate as US-Iran strikes enter a second month
Brent added more than 2% after a US strike on Larak Island; Washington is now signalling weekly secondary sanctions. Markets are starting to price an…
Business31 Aug
China's earnings calendar flashes three warnings in 48 hours: mortgages, factories and jet fuel
Property lenders, airlines and a major automaker all reported turbulence inside a two-day span ending 31 August 2026, and investors concluded the…
Business31 Aug
Trump's AI video of Kharg Island lands as the oil refiners meet in Washington
On 31 August 2026 the US president posted AI-generated footage of Iran's Kharg Island in 'smithereens' while, hours later, refinery executives sit…
Business31 Aug
Vance reframes Trump's Kharg Island video as 'a message,' not a strike order
Within minutes of President Donald Trump posting AI-generated videos depicting missile strikes on Iran's Kharg Island, Vice President JD Vance told…
Business31 Aug
Bessent's twin tracks: tariffs on Beijing, sanctions on Chinese oil buyers
In a single weekend, the U.S. Treasury secretary urged G20 allies to consider new trade barriers against Chinese goods and signalled another round of…
Business31 Aug
Tokyo's record defense ask lands as Bessent pushes Japan toward a stronger yen
Japan has asked for an 8.9 trillion yen fiscal 2027 defense budget built around AI and drone warfare, hours after the US Treasury Secretary said he…
Business31 Aug
Two signals on the dollar in one evening: Warsh at the G20, Trump on the wire
At 19:19 UTC the Fed chair told G20 ministers the world was seeing a global investment surge; by 20:20 UTC the President was on a separate channel…
Economy01 Sept
Trump's 20% GDP pitch lands in front of a Fed chair selling a quieter hand
On 31 August 2026 the president floated 20% growth and argued rapid expansion should not by itself justify Fed tightening, while his Fed chair told…
In Brief
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- Bessent's weekend wire: a trade-and-FX doctrine in real time30 Aug
- GM's C$1.1bn Canada bet reads as tariff hedge, not charity30 Aug
- GM's C$1.1bn Canada bet lands on a day the betting market puts a US–Canada deal at 14%30 Aug
- Trump's Venezuela deal is bigger than the barrels. It's a template.30 Aug
- Iran's Hormuz brinkmanship meets a Polymarket line and a US Treasury figure it calls a lie29 Aug
- Trump's Venezuela 'oil deal' lands: 65 billion barrels claimed, terms still scarce29 Aug
- Two Prints, One Economy: Labour's Share Slips While Hobby Stores Surge29 Aug
- Venezuela's Oil, Meta's Cuts, and America's 15 Percent Hobby Habit: Three Stories From…29 Aug
- Oil has stopped pricing a quick Iran war. Markets are settling into stalemate.28 Aug
- Ottawa moves tens of millions into Xanadu on a day the deficit wire went dark28 Aug
- Yields rise, gold holds as Warsh takes the Jackson Hole stage28 Aug
- Markets hold their breath for Warsh's Jackson Hole debut28 Aug
- Caracas weighs OPEC exit as Washington closes in on Venezuelan oil28 Aug
- Oil slips on competing supply narratives traders can't yet resolve28 Aug
- Diplomats return, oil retreats: six months in, the Middle East war is rewriting market…27 Aug
- Trump renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' and Canada says the lake stays Ontario27 Aug
- Nvidia's earnings beat lifts Asian chip stocks, but the supplier read is split27 Aug
- Ottawa Adds 50% Duties on U.S. Copper Wire and Charcoal as Polymarket Prices 2026 Deal at…27 Aug
- Lisa Cook's counsel calls the Atlanta paperwork an 'inadvertent error' and rejects…27 Aug
- Warsh's Jackson Hole debut lands with the Fed split and bond markets watching27 Aug
- Strait of Hormuz: the 17% bet that outlasts the diplomacy27 Aug
- Nvidia posts a beat, but the share-price shrug tells the real story27 Aug
- Washington reaches for a Civil War-era court to monetise Iranian crude27 Aug
- Ethena signals an end to VC-style token unlocks, betting on revenue instead27 Aug
- Tehran's oil war of words: Rezaei boasts 80 million barrels shipped, draws red lines on…27 Aug
- Tehran and Muscat move toward a Hormuz revenue-sharing deal as Trump insists26 Aug
- Nvidia beat, Salesforce's Anthropic-linked profit, and the AI bid that won't quit26 Aug
- FBI seizes Chinese botnet domains as DOJ affidavit names Senate, NASA, Federal Reserve…26 Aug
- Tehran and Muscat move to reopen Hormuz, and the price of oil is already listening26 Aug
- Iran-Oman interim deal tries to thread Hormuz, but Tehran says the strait stays26 Aug
- Hormuz talks ease the oil price, not the choke point26 Aug
- Tehran and Muscat sit down to put a toll road through Hormuz26 Aug
- Taiwan's drone ambitions collide with a budget fight in the legislature26 Aug
- Three wires, one day: a fun fund, a researcher's plea, and a Gulf letter26 Aug
- US housing, labor and debt signals converge in a single late-August print26 Aug
- Trump Floats Renaming Lake Ontario as Canada–US Trade Talks Collapse25 Aug