Nine Killed, Including Two Paramedics in Israeli Strikes on Southern Lebanon

These Are America's Most (And Least) Dangerous States Where you live can significantly affect your likelihood of experiencing violent crime, with reported rates varying severalfold across the United States. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks every U.S. state and the District of Columbia by reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents between March 2025 and February 2026. The figures include murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, using data from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Washington, D.C. and Alaska Top the Rankings Washington, D.C. recorded the nation’s highest violent crime rate at 789 incidents per...

In "Watershed Moment" China Orders Companies To Defy US Sanctions China ordered companies in the country not to comply with US sanctions on five domestic refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade, deploying for the first time a blocking measure introduced in 2021 that was aimed at protecting its firms from foreign laws it deemed unjustified.  Refiners - including Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery which was sanctioned last month and several other privately-owned processors - had been facing asset freezes and transaction bans. Hengli was the most ambitious target to date in China’s refining sector, and...

July Rate-Hike Off The Table After Producer Price Inflation Drops Most Since COVID Following yesterday's much cooler than expected, Goldman's Rich Privorotsky notes that today’s PPI print matters more for the core PCE read-through (Fed's favorite inflation indicator), particularly healthcare and financial services. While May's headline PPI print was hot, core was cooler than expected, and June's data release today was expected to show no change in headline producer prices. In fact, like with CPI, headline Producer prices actually saw deflation (-0.3% MoM), equaling the biggest monthly decline since April 2020. The...