Aluminum Supply Shock: Top Gulf Producer Halts Operations After Iran Strike, Price To Spike

Trump Says "US Will Be Attacking Iran Hard Again Today", Oil Spikes Summary Trump says "Will be attacking Iran hard again today" Trump tells Fox he "may keep going" with strikes. Trump says Iran took too long to negotiate, and now "will have to pay the price". Tehran claims prior night attacks in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan as fulfilment of its previously vowed 'retaliation' - targeted the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, footage shows. Iran again signals it could cut off all indirect talks & any negotiations, says it is 'reviewing' US talks after latest exchange...

US Manufacturing Expanded For 6th Straight Month In June As Inflation Fears Ease With 'hard data' having deteriorated recently (except in the labor market), 'soft' survey data has been surprisingly strong (especially in the Manufacturing side of the economy). S&P Global's US Manufacturing PMI dipped from multi-year highs at 55.1 to 53.9 final in June (below the 55.7 expected). ISM Manufacturing also dipped from 54.0 to 53.3 (slightly below the 53.9 exp). Both solidly above the '50' line suggesting growth... Source: Bloomberg Put simply: US manufacturing activity expanded for a sixth straight month in June as...

By 2050, The World's Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia Across 150 years, familiar urban giants rise, fall, and give way to a new generation of megacities. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 15 most populous cities worldwide from 1950 to 2100 using population estimates from the European Commission’s JRC via Our World in Data. City boundaries were consistently defined based on satellite imagery and population data. The Transatlantic Era Tokyo led the 1950 ranking with 12.6 million people, followed by New York with 9.3 million. The Big Apple...