Futures Rise, Oil Slides On Iran Ceasefire Optimism After Best Month For Stocks Since 2020

Fico Threatens To Cut Ukraine's Emergency Power As Russian Oil Transit Fight Escalates Slovakia's populist Prime Minister and pro-Trump ally Robert Fico has drawn an unexpectedly hard line in his country's ongoing energy showdown with Ukraine: restore Russian oil flows, or else a key emergency electricity lifeline for Ukraine gets pulled. In a weekend post on X, Fico warned that unless Ukraine resumes pumping Russian crude to Slovakia by Monday, Bratislava will cut off its emergency power exports. This is an immense threat given current frigid subzero temperatures in war-ravaged Ukraine. "If...

Why did President Trump launch a war against Iran? Two reasons.First, electoral polls indicated a dramatic victory for anti-Trump Democrats in this fall’s Congressional elections. This would put a welcome end to Trump’s campaign to establish one-man rule in the United States. Losing the Senate and/or House would open Trump up to a host of […]

Israeli attacks killed Palestinians across Gaza on Wednesday, including a senior police official, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. Palestinian medics told Reuters that Naseem al-Kalazani, a colonel in Gaza’s police force, was killed by an Israeli strike that targeted his vehicle in the al-Mawasi tent camp west of […]