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BREAKING: 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 🇵🇰 Pakistan set to sign a joint defense agreement, according to Reuters report.

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Copper prices have risen to a new record high, and are up 51% over the past year.

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BREAKING: Iranian state media says the military has struck 'hostile targets' in the Strait of Hormuz

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BREAKING: Brent crude oil price is up 5%

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BREAKING: Japan says that North Korea has fired what could be a ballistic missile

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BREAKING: Iran warned Gulf states that 'any new U.S. attack on its territory' would in turn 'trigger ​retaliation against critical energy infrastructure across the region', according to Reuters report.

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Prices, since start of the year.

Rice: +46%
Cotton: +29%
Wheat: +26%
Wool: +21%
Rubber: +20%
Palm oil: +16%
Tea: +15%
Sunflower oil: +15%
Cheese: +12%
Soybeans: +11%

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🇺🇸 Gavin Newsom's chances of becoming the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee have fallen to 17%, followed by 15% for Jon Ossoff, 13% for AOC and 10% for Kamala Harris, according to @Kalshi prediction market.

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BREAKING: Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis claim responsibility for targeting Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden

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BREAKING: Iranian state television say current talks with Oman are not related to any immediate reopening of Strait of Hormuz

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BREAKING: Axios reports that the US and Iran are nearing on a new interim agreement to reopen Strait of Hormuz

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BREAKING: OpenAI reports new incidents of models breaching testing boundaries

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BREAKING: CNN reports the US military has 'used up nearly 80% of key missile interceptors' as senior military commanders are 'warning that the Pentagon’s munitions stockpile is dangerously low'

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🇺🇸 US manufacturing PMI for July beats expectations and signals biggest expansion in factory activity since 2022.

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The 🇺🇸 US economy under President Trump

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BREAKING: Oil prices down by over 5%

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BREAKING: Trump says strikes on Iran, which have been called off, were supposed to be the 'biggest since World War II'.

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BREAKING: Oil prices fall by 5% after Trump calls off new strikes on Iran

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Prices, since start of the year.

European natural gas: +109%
Heating oil: +93%
Gasoline: +82%
US crude oil: +47%
Gasoline: +47%
Brent crude: +44%
Coal: +24%

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BREAKING: Iran has threatened to 'strike other nations energy fields' if the US launches fresh attacks, according to Reuters report.