Global oil demand is set to exceed supply in the current year amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, reversing previous projections of a surplus...

"The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have," the director of national intelligence said...

"That this is the largest oil supply disruption in the history of the oil market is neither an exaggeration nor controversial..."

...periods of very negative bond impulse have at best led to sideways equity returns and at worst meaningful drawdowns...

The supertanker moving along the chokepoint, Yuan Hua Hu, is owned by Cosco, and if it is allowed to pass, it would only be the third tanker carrying oil for China from the Persian Gulf that has traversed Hormuz since the start of the war

Risk versus reward is generally unappealing when speculative behaviour is so febrile...

Tankers: Al Gattara and Fraiha. 

Will be "asking President Xi, a Leader of extraordinary distinction, to 'open up' China so that these brilliant people can work their magic."

Name change would seek to circumvent the War Powers requirement & Congress...

... hottest PPI YoY since Dec 2022

...potential replacements for Starmer are beginning to preach greater fiscal orthodoxy, if recent political commentary is to be believed

“The most difficult question for investors right now is to find hedge trades in case the war in Iran drags on and oil prices stay high”

Trump before departing for China: "we are either gonna make a deal or they will be decimated."

AI is still where the money is flowing...

Extreme measures resulted in severe developmental and physical harm to the three children...

Nuclear waste will flip from hazard to commodity in the years ahead...

...as the unresolved Iran war looms heavy.

Uncertainty begets uncompetitiveness...