Report: Joint Chiefs Chairman Warns Trump of Significant Risks if US Attacks Iran

IMO Draws Up Hormuz Evacuation Plan For 800 Ships Trapped In Gulf Tanker traffic through the Hormuz chokepoint remained muted as of Tuesday morning, with maritime movement still far below pre-US-Iran conflict levels. The ship backlog in the Persian Gulf has now swelled to a staggering 800 vessels, underscoring the scale of the disruption, while the International Maritime Organization is reportedly drawing up evacuation plans for stranded ships. Bloomberg quoted the Secretary-General of the IMO, Arsenio Dominguez, who stated on the sidelines of Singapore Maritime Week earlier today that the...

Watch Live: Rubio, Bessent Convene 65 Nations For Global Crackdown On "Far-Left Political Terrorism" Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host delegations from 65 countries in Washington on Thursday morning to coordinate a specialized international response to combat what the Trump administration describes as a "resurgence" of far-left political terrorism. Watch Live here (due to start at 0910ET): CNN cited a senior State Department official who said the delegations will come from "across the Western Hemisphere, Asia, Europe, and beyond." The meeting will focus on countering the spread of far-left political violence...

SoftBank To Sell $11 Billion In Junk Bonds At Soaring Yields To Fund OpenAI Investments It's only appropriate that just hours after we published an extensive report looking at the trillions in debt funding the AI supercycle - which just this year stands at $568bn, of which $259bn issued in IG, followed by $256bn across Private Credit, Direct Lending, and other bilateral/non-syndicated lending (for SPVs and infrastructure finance), another $40bn for HY and $11bn for institutional loans... ... that SotBank launched what Bloomberg dubbed "one of the biggest junk bond deals ever",...