New Member Of Trump's Iran Negotiating Team Comes From FDD Think Tank

Zinc Hits Four-Year High As "Extremely Thin" Physical Supply Fuels Squeeze Zinc futures in London are headed for their largest monthly close since January, with prices hitting four-year highs this week amid tightening physical supplies. London futures for the industrial metal initially gained as much as 1% before reversing course. Zinc fell .8% to $3,861 a ton as of 11:40 a.m. local time, halting a seven-day rally. Despite the pullback, zinc's physical market remains extremely tight. "Supply constraints boosting zinc: Zinc price has risen 31% since March to $3,966, driven by declining mine...

These Countries Have The Highest Percentage Of Female Population Across most of the world, men and women are present in nearly equal numbers. Yet in a handful of countries and territories, women make up well over half the population, creating some of the world’s largest gender imbalances. This visualization, created by Harris Saleem via Visual Capitalist, ranks the countries and territories with the highest female share of the population using the latest available World Bank data. Longer female life expectancy is a major factor, but migration and age structure also shape these demographic patterns. Where Women Make...

Cushing Stocks Crash To 'Tank Bottoms', Seasonally Lowest Since 2005; SPR Sees Another Huge Drain Oil prices have tumbled in recent days as optimism grew there would be a lasting Middle East peace agreement, which would mean supplies would be back on track - but investors are taking a breather today with prices marginally higher this morning, rising off three month lows (and the 200DMA) after Trump threatened to 'start bombing again' if he doesn't like the deal (or how Iran is behaving). Solid US macro data also helped lift oil...