geopolitics

US military completes 12th straight night of strikes on Iran Reuters

TotalEnergies SE said second-quarter earnings surged as wars in Iran and Ukraine boosted prices for crude and refined products, offsetting a drop in profit from its gas business.

US-Iran tensions underpin dollar as yen nears 40-year low Reuters

Economic decay and America’s strategic opening.

Time to tot up the scores

Renewed air campaign has yet to reassure shipowners the waterway can be made safe from Iranian attacks

Houthis say they attacked Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, threatening new chokepoint in Iran war Reuters

The Five-Year Plan to create a technological powerhouse is off to a great start.

Crop prices rose to a three-year high as heat waves and escalating attacks in the Black Sea threaten to disrupt global grain trade, reviving risks to food inflation that have also been stoked by the war in Iran.

China is restricting real estate companies from using a popular offshore loan structure that has helped some of them weather the country’s property crisis, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to recent moves to strengthen oversight of overseas borrowing.