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*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone IRAN REJECTS U.S. STRAIT OF HORMUZ DEAL AS ‘UNREALISTIC’ Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei said Tehran will not accept a U.S. plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz unless it includes reparations for war damage. He rejected Washington’s proposed framework, saying Iran will not accept symbolic concessions and insists on “tangible benefits” …
Reporter’s summation of today’s episode from Frontline Africa news podcast: Five things you should take away from this episode. The number one thing is that this is now a four-front war. Iran from the east, Hezbollah from the north, the Houthis from Yemen in the south, the Iraqi militias hitting American targets across the Middle …
President Donald Trump appears to be eyeing an executive order that would target individual state efforts to rein in artificial intelligence and initiate several actions aimed at preempting those laws. A draft order viewed by FedScoop includes plans to establish an AI litigation task force to challenge state AI statutes, restrict funding for states with …
"There will be control." Remember when European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde openly admitted that the EU's new CBDC—the digital euro—will be used to exert control? pic.twitter.com/o5az9sd6Yx — Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) July 12, 2025 h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Fed Chair Powell calls crypto stablecoins a "positive step" and says framework is well underway. pic.twitter.com/QzUoThxFWz — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) July 1, 2025
🔴 ⚠️ BREAKING: US-UK trade pact will leave the 10% US tariff in place – CNN. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) May 8, 2025 Trump's "big" trade deal is with the UK:– It's a framework not a deal– They're our 11th largest trading partner– They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)– They *already* charge average …
United States President Joe Biden confirmed on Friday afternoon that, while more work is needed, Israel and the Hamas terror group have agreed on a ceasefire deal framework that would see the release of hostages. In a Wednesday op-ed, a senior US official told the Washington Post that a framework has reportedly been agreed upon …
Haven’t seen this in any mainstream media, but found it in an Irish farmers’ journal… The World Bank has today (Tuesday, May 7) launched ‘Recipe for a Livable Planet’ – the first comprehensive global strategic framework for mitigating agri-food system emissions. According to the World Bank, these actions will also have three key benefits – …
Strip at sunrise on February 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (SAID KHATIB/AFP) Negotiators working on a framework for a deal to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have made “real progress” over the last few weeks, a senior Biden administration official said Sunday night. The hostage …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.fitchratings.com/research/banks/further-cut-to-us-bank-oper-environment-score-would-require-structural-change-17-08-2023 Fitch Ratings-New York-17 August 2023: Fitch Ratings lowered the operating environment (OE) score for U.S. banks in June to ‘aa-‘ from ‘aa’ mainly due to structural uncertainty around the path and rate of monetary tightening and gaps in in the regulatory framework. The lowering of the OE score did not negatively affect the ratings …
By Graham Summers, MBA Nothing has changed in the U.S. in the last month. The primary framework for investing in the U.S. is as follows: 1) The stock market is bubbling up due to: a. There being too much liquidity in the financial system. b. Inflation, particularly core inflation remains elevated (4.8%). c. Stocks are …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spjun2223.html TLDRS: After the 2008 financial crisis, banks were found to be undercapitalized and over-leveraged, leading to a complete overhaul of capital requirements through a set of rules known as Basel III. The aim was to ensure banks held enough capital to weather economic storms. However, Basel III is not yet complete, with …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.snb.ch/n/mmr/reference/stabrep_2023/source/stabrep_2023.n.pdf These measures need to strengthen banks’ resilience in order to prevent a loss of confidence wherever possible, and ensure a broad range of effective options to stabilise, recover or wind down a systemically important bank in the event of a crisis. Third, the scale and pace of deposit outflows that resulted from …