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Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington and Beijing prolonged their fragile tariff cease-fire for another 90 days, freezing U.S. duties at 30 % and China’s at 10 %—a reprieve from the 145 %/125 % surges that had been due at midnight. Equity markets immediately added nearly $1 trillion in capitalization; Japan’s Nikkei jumped 2.7 %…

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Morning Intelligence – The Gist Australia’s sudden decision to recognize Palestine—joining France, Britain and Canada—pushes the tally of UN members endorsing Palestinian statehood to roughly 149, nearly 77 percent of the world. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese framed the move as “when, not if,” a deliberate rebuff to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s warning that recognition “rewards…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Europe’s overnight communiqué backing Kyiv—hours after Washington confirmed a 15 August Trump-Putin summit in Alaska—signals mounting unease that peace could be negotiated over Ukraine’s head. Reuters notes that Zelenskyy controls barely 80 % of his country’s territory and faces a Russian force still advancing along a 1,000-km front line(aljazeera.com, reuters.com).…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Donald Trump’s decision to host Vladimir Putin in Alaska on 15 August—the first U.S.–Russia summit held on American soil since Governors Island in 1988—signals a return to great-power bargaining over the heads of smaller states. The meeting’s avowed aim is a Ukraine cease-fire, yet Kyiv was pointedly not invited and…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Turkey’s call for an emergency OIC summit has catalyzed an unusually swift, 20-nation Muslim bloc—and drawn in Germany, France and Canada—against Israel’s newly approved plan to seize Gaza City. Berlin has already frozen export licences, and UN Security Council members will meet tomorrow as Gaza’s death toll rises past 61,300…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning. Haiti’s battered state just replaced its police chief for the third time in 18 months, elevating Vladimir Paraison—an ex-palace security head who hobbled to Friday’s swearing-in on the same cane he earned fighting gang gunfire. Paraison inherits a force of barely 8,000 deployable officers pitted against the Viv…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening. Armenia and Azerbaijan will sign a U.S.-brokered framework in Washington tomorrow, ending 34 years of war and opening the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” — a multimodal corridor linking Baku to Nakhchivan through southern Armenia. The deal follows Azerbaijan’s 2023 retaking of Nagorno-Karabakh and the flight…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington’s abrupt vow to slap a 100 % duty on imported semiconductors—an industry worth $600 bn a year—signals that U.S. trade policy is now an extension of great-power rivalry. Within hours, Intel shed 3 % of its value, while allies from Taiwan to Germany scrambled for exemptions (Reuters, AP, Guardian).…

Evening Analysis – The Gist The Bank of England’s razor-thin 5-4 vote to trim Bank Rate to 4 percent—the fifth cut in a year and the lowest since March 2023—signals less a pivot than a high-wire act. Markets initially cheered, yet gilt yields and sterling firmed as traders priced in fewer future cuts, wary of…