Asian LNG Prices Surge To Highest Since 2022 As Iran War Escalates

Aluminum Supply Crisis Is About To Get Worse Aluminum prices in London are up nearly 17% since the onset of the U.S.-Iran conflict, as a growing chorus of top commodity desks, including Mercuria, Goldman, JPMorgan, and others, warn that the market is facing a major supply shock. That disruption, driven firstly by Middle East smelter outages and the Hormuz maritime chokepoint, is now colliding with new concerns that China may be forced to curtail output amid energy-use and emissions inspections, according to Bloomberg.  More color from the report: Chinese authorities are now moving...

President Trump said in a long post on Truth Social on Monday that it should be “mandatory” for Arab and Muslim states to join the Abraham Accords to normalize relations with Israel as part of any Iran deal, and threatened that if the condition isn’t met, full-scale war will resume “bigger and stronger than ever […]

US Southern Command announced on Monday that its forces bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the waters of Latin America, and said that the attack killed at least two people. SOUTHCOM said the strike targeted a boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and it offered no evidence to back up its claim that the small […]