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Good morning! Here’s the latest in trending:
Debt boom: Amazon (AMZN) seeks to raise at least $25B from a U.S. dollar bond sale.
AI selloff: This ETF sinks below a key technical level, while South Korea’s KOSPI enters bear market.
NATO summit: The U.S. will lift sanctions on Turkey and may sell F-35s. Trump revives Greenland bid.
Crude oil futures (CL1:COM) (CO1:COM) extended gains to climb more than 6% early on Wednesday as supply concerns reignited after the U.S. and Iran traded fresh strikes, while President Donald Trump said the ceasefire had ended.
Renewed strikes: Tehran targeted U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait on Wednesday after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran in response to attacks on three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. “U.S. forces struck Iranian air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats in and near the strait to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international commerce flowing through the international trade corridor,” the U.S. Central Command stated. The U.S. also revoked its authorization of Iranian oil sales in the international market following the ship attacks. Tehran has repeatedly said it would not allow ships to pass through the strait without its permission.
Bigger picture: The halt in attacks on commercial shipping and the U.S. waiver on Iranian oil sales were key elements of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, which paused hostilities and established a 60-day window for negotiations on a broader peace deal. Iran’s foreign ministry said the license revocation less than 20 days after the MOU was signed “is yet another indication of the U.S. administration’s bad faith, inconsistency, and unreliability.” “While the revocation doesn’t fundamentally change oil market dynamics, it’s important from a sentiment perspective,” ING Economic and Financial Analysis noted. “It heightens the risk of a breakdown in the temporary deal between the U.S. and Iran.”
Truce ends: At the NATO summit on Wednesday, Trump said the ceasefire was over. “For me, I think it’s over,” he said on Wednesday in Ankara, sitting next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the military alliance’s annual summit. “As far as I’m concerned it’s just a waste of time.” Trump added that he didn’t want to deal with Iranians, saying “they’re vicious, violent people, and if they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it.” Meanwhile, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf accused the U.S. of breaching the ceasefire by “violating Iranian adjustments in the Strait, persistent threats of further strikes, reinstating oil sanctions, attacks on southern Iran and continued Zionist aggression on Lebanon.”
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What else is happening…
Meta (META) gains after unveiling new Muse Image AI model.
SpaceXAI’s (SPCX) Grok app continues to lose market share.
Anthropic (ANTHRO) tops AI Safety Index; SpaceXAI graded F.
China’s DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) developing AI chip in-house.
Exxon (XOM) signals higher earnings in boost from oil prices.
Lutnick’s role in USA Rare Earth (USAR) deal under scrutiny.
These companies eye FIFA World Cup U.S. broadcast rights.
GameStop (GME) shareholders clear path for eBay (EBAY) deal.
Caesars (CZR) gains on report of financing for Icahn rival bid.
SEC forms working group to fight fraud targeting retail investors.
Today’s Markets
In Asia, Japan -2.1%. Hong Kong -3%. China -0.5%. India -2.2%.
In Europe, at midday, London -1.4%. Paris -2.1%. Frankfurt -2.2%.
Futures at 6:30, Dow -1.3%. S&P -1%. Nasdaq -1.3%. Crude +5.7% to $74.44. Gold -2.3% to $4,062.80. Bitcoin -1.7% to $62,098.
Ten-year Treasury Yield +1 bp to 4.58%.
On The Calendar
Companies reporting today include Levi Strauss (LEVI).
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