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Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit To Middle East, Oil Spikes On Ground War Fears
Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit To Middle East, Oil Spikes On Ground War Fears
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Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem says the group is fighting an existential battle against Israel as displacement crisis in Lebanon deepens: AJ
Over 3 million people forcibly displaced by US-Israeli war on Iran: UN
Iran reportedly approves Indian government sending two liquefied petroleum tankers through Hormuz
Japan-based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines headed toward Middle East
WSJ says Pentagon sends Marine expeditionary unit to Middle East. Oil jumps higher
Pentagon has just confirms two additional deaths in Thursday's downing of a...
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Three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration's central focus now is very clear: reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore the normal passage of crude and LNG tankers through a maritime chokepoint that carries roughly one-fifth of global oil and LNG flows.
On Saturday morning, Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command and the official overseeing Operation Epic Fury, released an update on day 22 of the combat mission and stated:
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Wall Street Keeps Testing AI Traders, But Most Are Still Underperforming
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Recent trading competitions suggest large language models are still unreliable portfolio managers, according to Bloomberg.
Tests involving models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI have often delivered underwhelming results: many lost money, traded excessively, and made erratic decisions despite receiving identical prompts. In several cases, models appeared unable to stick to coherent strategies for more than a few trading sessions.
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US Retail Sales Jumped Most In 8 Months In February
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Bank of America's omniscient analysts forecast a very strong month for Retail Sales in February data (released today)...
The actual print was +0.6% MoM (better than the 0.5% consensus, but less than BofA's forecast) comes after a revised higher 0.1% MoM decline in January (and December's nothingburger)...
Source: Bloomberg
That is the highest MoM rise since June 2025, and sales rose 3.7% YoY...
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