Trump Says Peace Deal Coming Sunday As Tehran Signals Still Reviewing Text

Obama-Appointed Judge Halts US Visa Restrictions On Disinformation Gurus Accused Of Censorship Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that denied visas and ordered deportations of “disinformation” expert foreign nationals whom it accused of being leading figures in the global “censorship-industrial complex.” Last year, the United States issued a visa policy targeting foreign nationals whom it claimed censor Americans’ free speech abroad. “For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their...

FOMC Minutes Signal Fed Saw "Dual Sided" Risks From Iran War Since the last FOMC meeting (March 18th), a lot has happened (war, more war, and now less war), and rate-change expectations hawkishly surged, then dovishly normalized today... And given the last 24 hours, perhaps this information is more useful now, as we return to macro-fundamentals from geopolitical chaos running markets. The minutes, released three weeks after the meeting, underscore the Fed's dilemma as it seeks to fill its congressional mandates of low inflation and maximum employment. Fed officials wrestled with starkly differing...

Middle East War Triggers New Global Refining Boom Submitted By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com For the second time this decade, a war has upended global oil markets and sent oil prices and refining margins to multi-year highs, benefiting the world’s biggest oil companies and top refiners. The war in Iran has tightened fuel supply as crude oil has struggled to move through the Strait of Hormuz, triggering reduced refining throughput in Asia and a temporary Chinese ban on exports. The fuel markets tightened even more than the crude market to send refining...