SINGAPORE/LONDON/NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury’s surprise bond buyback failed to quell lingering concerns about inflation and expanding government debt, as bond yields rose on Thursday, dragging the dollar higher as well. The Treasury responded on Wednesday to U.S. long-bond yields hitting the highest level since 2007 by doubling long-end buybacks to…
Aug 18 (Reuters) – A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the COVID-19 pandemic. David Morens, who had worked under Fauci as a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and…
Ukraine‘s ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections yesterday as he argued the nation faced a crisis of governance. In the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since the war began in 2022, Fedorov said in a video address on YouTube that ‘democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia’. The 35-year-old was a longtime…
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A day after he ordered the United States to scale back military exercises with South Korea and called North Korea “unthreatening and respectful,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had responded to his outreach. Trump’s relationship with Kim has received less White…
Detailed look at the potential for Syrian intervention in Lebanon against Hezbollah, a long time foe of the new Syrian government. Complex tug and pull on Syria includes US encouragement, benefactor Turkey not wanting Hezbollah destroyed, and Israel not wanting Syria strengthened militarily as evidenced by strikes on an airbase today. Continue reading HERE Source:…
With both sides refusing to compromise on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the US naval blockade, there is no clear path out of the war that began on February 28 The deal that US President Donald Trump signed at Versailles in June set an ambitious 60-day deadline for ending the war with Iran…
Greetings from Tyler, The Strait of Hormuz is a long ways away. Some reports say we have control and the others, who knows? We’re involved in two wars, or slightly involved. We know why. The Gulf is essential for a good bit of the oil out of the Middle East. Zelensky, well that’s another story altogether. I don’t…
Violent crime rates are falling in major cities around the United States this year compared to 2025, continuing a steady decline since 2022. This comes after the COVID-19 pandemic saw a record-breaking spike in homicides. The report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) released Sunday details 66 U.S. law enforcement agencies who have seen…
As the US-Iran war drags on with no end in sight, oil traders and policymakers are grappling with a critical question: are global oil stocks enough to offset what could become the biggest supply disruption on record? The answer is far from clear, depending not only on how much oil remains in storage, but also…
An important turning point has been reached in Russia’s war on Ukraine. But unfortunately for Kyiv, it’s not the “tide is turning” in Ukraine’s favor narrative that Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushing ever since his long-range drone attacks began smashing oil refineries and logistics warehouses deep inside Russia and sinking dozens of ships in the…