Brent Pushes Higher After Trump Orders "Extended Blockade" - Huddles With Oil Execs Over Hormuz

Core US Factory Orders Surged In March To Best YoY Growth Since Nov 2022 Headline Factory Orders rose 1.5% MoM in March (dramatically better than the 0.6% MoM expected) - the best since November. February's data was also revised higher. However, overall, orders were only up 2.1% YoY - the lowest since JUly 2025 Source: Bloomberg Core Factory Orders surge 1.6% MoM (also better than the 1.3% MoM expected) and up for the 5th straight month. That dragged the YoY growth in core orders up 4.09% YoY - the best since Nov...

US Intelligence Only Sees Limited Additional Damage To Iran Nuclear Program Since Last June A widely circulating fresh report in Reuters has raised eyebrows and serious questions related to the effectiveness of the 38-day aerial campaign which saw US-Israel bombs unleashed in the many thousands (combined: some 20,000+ munitions expended) on the Islamic Republic. "US intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would need to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer, when analysts estimated that a US-Israeli attack had pushed back the timeline to up to a...

US Jobs Soar By 172K In May, Smashing Estimates In 4 Sigma Beat; Unemployment Rate Remains At 4.3% With Wall Street expecting a strong - not great - number, and a modest decline from April's 115K, moments ago the BLS reported a shocker: in May the US added 172K jobs... ... not only a 4-sigma beat to the median estimate of 88K, but also above the highest estimate of 125K. The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised up by 29,000, from  +185,000 to +214,000, and the change for...