US-Iran Truce Holds for Now
It has been quite the week, with the market’s key narrative centred on the signing of the US-Iran peace agreement and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. While a move towards peace is always welcome and oil…
Weak Jobs Turnover Points to Slowing Wage Growth
Source: Macrobond, ING
Disinflation Will Increasingly Be the Theme to Watch
On inflation, the Fed’s new fourth-quarter 2026 forecast for inflation of 3.3% is slightly higher than the…
After more than a decade of diplomatic estrangement, Rwanda and South Africa appear to be taking meaningful steps toward rebuilding a relationship long marked by suspicion, political tensions, and missed opportunities. Recent…
Teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi struck a remarkable 11-ball 50 for India A, breaking the record for the fastest half-century in the history of List A 50-over cricket.The 15-year-old's latest remarkable feat came for India A…
Every trader knows the feeling.
You start the day with a plan. One trade goes wrong. Then another. Suddenly you are down $1,500 on a $2,000 drawdown, and your brain starts whispering the most dangerous sentence in trading:
“Just take one…
The Trump administration went from bombing threats last week to, for lack of a better term, hope: “We are about to sign the truce papers this weekend.”
If the truce holds, the market decline we experienced in the last two weeks qualifies…
At the 11th Our Ocean Conference (OOC11) in Mombasa, Kenya, the United States announced 24 commitments worth over $96 million, subject to Congressional notification, to advance maritime security; combat illegal, unreported, and…
You’ve probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it’s been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But according to its lead developer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, robots will soon be almost as…
The University of Michigan’s just printed 44.8 in May. That’s the worst reading since the survey began in 1952. That print was lower than in 2008 and the 1980 inflation panic. It was also worse than the COVID lockdowns, yet the S&P…