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The Fed’s First Hike in Three Years: Why the Dollar and Gold Are Rising Together
TODAY'S NUMBERS: 5.00% (US 10-year Treasury yield, first close above that level since 2023) · 99.5 (Dollar Index, its highest in weeks) · $4,300...
France Offered Europe a Nuclear Umbrella. Nobody Has Checked What’s Actually Under It
When Emmanuel Macron stepped up at the Île Longue submarine base on 2 March 2026, he was not simply updating French defense doctrine. He...
Riyadh Asked for Direct Protection and Washington Said No — That Answer Is the Story
By offering Saudi Arabia intelligence and targeting help but declining direct military protection after the East-West pipeline strike, Washington has quietly redefined the 80-year...
China Tightens Capital Controls the Same Week It Calls the Yuan’s Rise “Irreversible”
TODAY'S NUMBERS: $126.4bn (BRI engagement, H1 2026, a record) · 3.1% (yuan's share of global payments, June 2026) · $50,000 (China's unchanged annual FX...
Andy Burnham’s Anti-Farage Strategy Is Accelerating the Outcome It’s Meant to Prevent
By refusing to call a snap election while Labour is ahead of Reform UK, Burnham is trading the only moment he is likely to...
Trump’s Silence on Hormuz Is Now a Fed Problem: What Markets Are Pricing In This Week
TODAY'S NUMBERS: $108 (Brent crude) · 4.98% (US 10-year Treasury yield) · $4,330 (Gold) Oil is pricing a wider Gulf war, yields are pricing...
Is China Turning Economic Influence in Africa into Strategic Power?
China can leverage its membership in the BRICS group and its direct investments in Africa as complementary tools to build growing economic influence that...
Why China’s Teapot Refiners Can’t Sanction-Proof This War
A decade of financial sanctions barely dented China's discounted-Iranian-oil trade. Physical strikes on the tankers themselves might close it within months — because Beijing...
How China’s Infrastructure Strategy Is Reshaping Africa’s Security and Red Sea
China is heavily utilizing its economic tools and infrastructure financing to build deep strategic influence in Africa, integrating the continent's nations into its Belt...
Houthi Gains in Yemen Put the U.S. in a New Red Sea Dilemma
The Iran-aligned Houthis have launched a rapid offensive along Yemen's coast, gaining control over key areas that threaten a crucial Middle East waterway, specifically...