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Switzerland Halts Military Exports To US, Citing Iran War Neutrality  Switzerland on Friday announced it is halting all military and defense exports to the United States, citing its neutrality, coming as the Iran war reaches the three week mark. "Exports of war materiel to the US cannot currently be authorized," the government said, as quoted in Bloomberg. The statement specifically referenced Washington's "international armed conflict" in the Middle East. Source: screengrab via Johnny Harris/YouTube The announcement might not be a surprise, given similar past stances by Switzerland; however it comes at a sensitive...

Crop Prices Hit 3-Year High As Heat & War Stoke Supply Fears; Options Whale Places $20M Corn Bet The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index (BCOMAGSP) climbed to a three-year high Wednesday as widening conflict across critical energy and grain trade corridors, from the Black Sea to the Strait of Hormuz and the southern Red Sea, collided with scorching heat waves across Europe and the US and mounting El Niño risks in critical agri growing belts, reviving the threat of global food inflation. BCOMAGSP is a dollar-denominated benchmark that tracks 10 major agricultural...

Amazon's Cloud Unit In Bahrain "Disrupted" By Iranian Strike Just one day after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened U.S. companies across the Middle East, the Financial Times reported late Tuesday morning that an IRGC strike had damaged Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure in Bahrain.  The FT cited Bahrain's interior ministry, which said civil defense teams were "extinguishing a fire in a facility of a company as a result of the Iranian aggression." Local authorities did not identify the company, disclose the type of air-delivered munition used, and/or provide further operational details about the strike. But according...