Ships Abruptly U-Turn Near Hormuz As Some Shift To Iran-Approved Routes

Cuban Leader Warns Of Potential 'Bloodbath' If US Takes Military Action Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Cuba’s leader on Monday warned that any U.S. military action against the communist-controlled island nation would cause a “bloodbath” and lead to regional insecurity. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel delivers a speech during a plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum in Minsk, Belarus June 26, 2025. Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS “If it were to materialize, it would trigger a bloodbath with incalculable consequences, plus the destructive impact on regional peace and stability,”...

Rebound In Used Luxury Watches Continues During the COVID-era flood of free money, from stimulus checks to the Federal Reserve's zero-interest-rate policy, luxury watch prices skyrocketed to the moon. But once that liquidity boom faded and interest rates were pushed sharply higher to rein in the inflation monster fueled by helicopter money, the secondary luxury market slid into a multi-year correction. Over the last year and a half, however, that downturn appears to have bottomed out (see here and here), with prices continuing to rebound. The Bloomberg Subdial Watch Index, which...