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Evening Analysis – The Gist Washington and Delhi’s “interim” tariff pact is less détente than hard-nosed barter. Under the deal, U.S. duties on Indian goods drop to 18 % from 25 –50 %, but only if India cuts its Russian-oil lifeline and pledges to buy an eye-watering $500 bn of U.S. exports over five years—10…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Wall Street’s 48-hour whiplash lays bare a deeper fault-line: investors no longer doubt AI’s eventual ubiquity, they doubt its near-term economics. A $900 bn vaporization of Big Tech market value earlier in the week, led by Microsoft’s 18 % slide, followed Amazon’s vow to pour an eye-watering $200 bn into…

Evening Analysis – The Gist U.S. labour-market red lights flashed overnight: employers announced 108 000 layoffs in January—more than any January since 2009—while job openings slid to 6.5 million, a five-year low, sending Wall Street sharply lower. (ft.com) The disconnect is striking. GDP is still expanding above 2 %, yet firms from Amazon to UPS…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist The last guardrail on U-S-Russian nukes snapped at midnight. New START’s cap of 1,550 deployed warheads and 700 launchers—already stretched by mutual allegations of non-compliance—now vanishes, ending a bilateral arms-control lineage dating to SALT I in 1972. Moscow voices “regret” while vowing flexibility; Washington’s response is a call for a…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Bitcoin’s 7 % dive to $68 k today—its first break below the psychological $70 k since Nov 2024—wiped roughly $500 bn from the global crypto market in a single week. Ether slid 8 % to $1.96 k; both coins are now down 20–30 % year-to-date, erasing the entire “Trump-rally” premium…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist The Washington Post has axed roughly a third of its staff—several hundred jobs, including entire sports and foreign desks—after racking up $77 million in losses in 2023 and almost $100 million in 2024. Executive editor Matt Murray frames the cut as “necessary modernisation,” yet insiders blame owner Jeff Bezos’s pivot…

Evening Analysis – The Gist AI-triggered fear, not earnings, set off a two-day rout that erased roughly $280 billion from listed software and data firms across three continents after Anthropic’s new legal-automation model hit the market. London’s RELX fell 14 %, Salesforce and Adobe slid 7 % overnight in New York, while India’s TCS lost…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist New dawn, same dilemma: Washington-brokered talks reopen in Abu Dhabi today after Russia’s overnight missile-and-drone barrage left Kyiv shivering at –25 °C and 1,000+ buildings without heat. Yet Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. negotiators will again test a draft peace text whose core dispute—Moscow’s demand for the entire Donbas—remains unchanged. (apnews.com)…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Russia’s overnight barrage—about 450 drones and 70 missiles, including a record 32 ballistic weapons—shut down power plants across five Ukrainian regions and left 1,170 Kyiv apartment blocks without heat as temperatures fell to -17 °C. The strike lands hours before U.S-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi aimed at a first cease-fire…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Gold’s two-week free-fall is now a full-blown rout. Futures briefly pierced $4,500/oz in New York on Monday, extending the metal’s slide to 17 % since its January 19 record high and erasing roughly $320 bn from bullion-backed ETFs worldwide. Silver, down 29 % in the same window, signals that algorithmic…