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"It's Getting Worse": HSBC Warns Commodities Face Squeeze As Chokepoint Chaos Spreads
"It's Getting Worse": HSBC Warns Commodities Face Squeeze As Chokepoint Chaos Spreads
The key takeaway heading into the weekend is that maritime chokepoint chaos has spread from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, while fighting across the Black Sea has intensified between Russia and Ukraine. The widening disruptions have prompted several institutional desks this week to warn that a potential squeeze on physical commodity markets could send prices from energy to agricultural goods higher.
"The Middle East conflict has escalated, putting a substantial squeeze back into commodity markets,"...
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Iran’s IRGC Warns It Will Expand ‘Geography of the War’ If the US Attacks Again
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday issued another warning to the US, saying that if the US bombs Iran again, Iranian forces would expand the “geography of the war.” “If another aggression takes place, there will certainly be significant changes in our defense and our counterattack,” said IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi, according to […]
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Feb 28, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Defiant Iranian FM Says Regime Change Will Be 'Mission Impossible'
Defiant Iranian FM Says Regime Change Will Be 'Mission Impossible'
There have been more US and Israeli strikes on Tehran into the afternoon and evening hours local time, suggesting that the aerial operation will be sustained, at least for the time being.
There have been rumors flying all day that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed, which Iranian officials have firmly denied. Many analysts believe that full regime change in Iran cannot happen unless there are US forces on the ground, and this prospect would be immensely unpopular among the American...
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Jun 5, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Climate Change: No. 1 Problem Of No Nation?
Climate Change: No. 1 Problem Of No Nation?
Despite claims of new records for global high temperatures every few years now, the topic of climate change has still not reached the top of the agenda for many people.
As Valentine Fouurreau reports, data from Statista Consumer Insights shows respondents in none of the 32 nations covered by the survey collectively rated climate change as the most important problem for their own country when asked to name the issues that were of the biggest significance to them.
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