Oil Tanker Going To China Forced To Reverse Course Before Crossing Hormuz Under US Blockade

Heat Dome Halts German Trains After Track Sealant Liquifies Europe's heat wave is now quickly morphing from a public health crisis into an infrastructure nightmare, with power prices surging, more than 1,000 excess deaths reported across France, and extreme temperatures bringing parts of Germany's rail infrastructure to a halt. The local German outlet Leipziger Zeitung reports that after a week of sweltering temperatures above 30°C, with readings climbing toward 40°C on Saturday, critical transport infrastructure in Leipzig failed under the heat. The city, located in the eastern German state of Saxony,...

Bitcoin Perps' Algorithmic '0.01%' Scythe: How The Funding-Rate Mechanism Explains Your "Mystery" Liquidations Authored by danny (@agintender) via WuBlockchain's Aki Chen, Why is derivatives trading the exchange’s money printer? Why do some venues dare to take the other side of their customers’ trades? By unpacking the funding-rate mechanics of Bitcoin perpetual futures (perps) and the surrounding market dynamics, we show how traders are led—step by step—into a fatal trap meticulously engineered by the exchange. The so-called “0.01% equilibrium” in perps - akin, in spirit, to the 0.618 Fibonacci motif - operates as a...

Israel continues to carry out daily operations in which ground troops enter the Quneitra and Daraa Governorates in southwest Syria. While their presence is effectively the “new normal” in this part of Syria, in recent weeks there are a growing number of incidents of the troops not just raiding municipalities, but individual homes. Yesterday, an […]