Poland Rejects 'Unofficial' US Request To Redeploy Patriot Batteries To Mideast

"Bin There, Done That?" Not Quite By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank Markets may be suffering from a growing sense of "bin there, done that" fatigue when it comes to geopolitical shocks, but central banks are in no position to throw recent developments into the bin just yet. Take Hormuz. Both sides now claim to firmly control the Strait, President Trump appears to favour squeezing Iran economically (or, in Bessent’s words, “economic isolation like the world has never seen before”) rather than militarily (whilst Iran’s thinking may be...

Putin In Contact With New Ayatollah, Tells FM Araghchi Iran 'Fighting For Its Sovereignty' Amid Fresh Hormuz Proposal Summary Putin tells FM Araghchi that he's been in contact with the new Supreme Leader, and says Iran fighting for 'sovereignty' After a weekend of stalemate malaise, Iran reportedly offers new proposal for opening ship traffic, while postponing the thorny nuclear issue  Trump says peace could come via telephone rather than face-to-face meetings, also warning Iranian oil infrastructure could explode from within unless flow resumes Iranian FM has been sending written messages to US via Pakistani intermediaries  Israel strikes...

The State Department announced on Wednesday that it approved a potential $1.96 billion weapons sale for Saudi Arabia, just days after Riyadh bombed the Sanaa International Airport in Yemen, shattering a fragile truce with Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, that had held relatively well since 2022. The arms sale includes up to 20,000 […]