Brent peaked near $118 before a US-Iran framework began unwinding the premium

Ceasefire extended 60 days for talks on nuclear program, sanctions and reconstruction; a Lebanon dispute threatens to unravel it

General License X resumes Iranian crude exports with banking, insurance and shipping cover after the Hormuz reopening

With Hormuz restricted and the Red Sea still avoided, carriers reroute via the Cape, lifting spot rates 29-129% on key lanes

Beijing adds 10 US firms to its export-control list, tightening a licensing regime that already throttled magnet supply chains

A levy on cash transfers abroad hits Mexico and Central America hardest while migrants reroute to exempt digital channels

The deposit rate goes to 2.25% as war-driven oil prices push 2026 inflation projections to 3.0% amid stalling growth

Less than two years after a landslide, Keir Starmer resigns amid Reform UK's surge; Andy Burnham is the frontrunner

A Trump-aligned lawyer edges leftist Iván Cepeda by under 1%, ending the Petro era and realigning Bogotá toward Washington

With debt near 132% of GDP and ~$13bn in undisclosed borrowing, Dakar resists an IMF-pushed restructuring after PM Sonko's ouster

The EU is finalizing its largest-ever Digital Markets Act penalty over search self-preferencing, with binding data-sharing and Android orders due by late July

Washington forgoes the joint extension, leaving ~$2 trillion in North American trade under prolonged uncertainty

More than 500 dairy herds and fresh poultry losses keep egg prices elevated while researchers map new transmission routes

An official June advisory, with a 63% chance of a very strong event, pushes traders to front-run dry-season risk in West Africa and Southeast Asia

With India's suspension still in force, Sindh says it is starved of Indus flows during peak kharif sowing while Punjab draws near its full share

The Aletar subsea cable between Tartous and Alexandria was severed on June 15; Syria rerouted via Cyprus and Turkey before splicing it back

Royal Marines seize the 'Smyrtos' in the Channel days before a sanctions package hitting ships, insurers and procurement networks

After a year of bans and reversals, the US approved limited H200 sales — then Beijing told firms to pause and pushed Huawei instead

Wholesale power on the largest US grid nearly doubled year-over-year; states impose large-load tariffs while a foreign-influence subplot complicates the politics

The FAO food index held near a three-year high in May; underneath, weather, fuel and fertilizer costs pushed all major grains higher