Slovakia Gives Ukraine Monday Deadline to Restore Oil Transit

Though reports continue to insist the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is holding, Israel continues to carry out multiple attacks across southern and eastern Lebanon, killing at least three more people today, including a child. The child was killed in Baraachit when an airstrike hit a vehicle there. The civilians in the vehicles largely survived, but one child […]

One Key Signal Says Rate Hikes Could Be Coming Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance For a while now markets have operated under the assumption that inflation was cooling, rate cuts were inevitable, and the Federal Reserve was slowly steering toward a soft landing. Hell, Jim Cramer started celebrating Jerome Powell’s “soft landing” some 925 days ago with inflation at 3.1%. Today, inflation is at 3.8% and Powell is leaving his post at the Fed and turning over his impossible task to Kevin Warsh. Which is to say the consensus is starting to unravel fast....

Deregulate To Regulate Submitted by Molly Schwartz, Cross-Asset Marco Strategist at Rabobank We have maintained the view that markets are sorely underestimating the impact that the war in Iran will have on global economies and financial markets, and that one day there would come a reckoning. While markets are still highly volatile and the situation in the Middle East highly uncertain, yesterday’s price action suggested that some traders are getting a reality check. Remember folks, we’re still in a ceasefire! The iffy terms as to whether other countries in the region like Israel,...