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One Day Until Trump's Self‑Imposed 5-Day Deadline On Iran But Markets Appear Increasingly Numb
One Day Until Trump's Self‑Imposed 5-Day Deadline On Iran But Markets Appear Increasingly Numb
By Molly Schwartz, Cross Asset Macro Strategist at Rabobank
More persistent inflation
Yesterday, Iran rejected the US-proposed 15-point plan, instead laying out its own conditions in a 5-point plan;
(1) halt the killing of Iranian officials;
(2) means to make sure no other war is wage against it;
(3) reparations for the war;
(4) an end to all hostilities; and
(5) Iran’s “exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.”
The probability that Washington would accept these terms in...
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