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Morning Intelligence – The Gist AstraZeneca’s experimental pill baxdrostat cut 24-hour systolic pressure by a headline 11 mmHg in a Phase III trial of patients whose hypertension resists three-drug therapy, the company confirmed overnight.(reuters.com) The Financial Times notes the result hit the primary endpoint with “highly clinically meaningful” effect, moving the drug a step closer…

Evening Analysis – The Gist The WTO sliced its 2026 merchandise-trade growth outlook to a threadbare 0.5 %, while simultaneously upgrading 2025 to 2.4 % on tariff-driven “front-loading” and an AI-hardware buying spree (reuters.com). The split forecast exposes a sugar-rush pattern: demand is being yanked forward to dodge U.S. duties that average 15 % on…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist France’s government lasted just seven hours yesterday before Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned—the third premier to fall in 12 months and the shortest-lived cabinet in the Fifth Republic. Markets took notice: the CAC 40 slid 1.4-2 % and French 10-year yields widened 18 bp, erasing a week of European Central…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Sebastien Lecornu’s premiership lasted just 27 days; today’s dawn resignation delivers France its third prime-ministerial collapse in a year and the briefest since the Fifth Republic’s birth in 1958, wiping 1.2 % from the CAC-40 and pushing 10-year OAT yields to 3.6 %. (theguardian.com) With the deficit already at 5.8…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s war cabinet woke to a new arithmetic: two far-right ministers threaten to quit if Benjamin Netanyahu endorses President Trump’s 20-point Gaza cease-fire, yet polls show 62 % of Israelis now prioritise hostage release over “total victory.” A split would erase the coalition’s four-seat margin and trigger elections it would…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Lviv awoke to the war’s new arithmetic: 500 drones + 50 missiles = one obliterated family, a darkened grid and NATO jets scrambled over Poland. Russia’s overnight barrage—its largest against western Ukraine—killed at least five, wrecked gas lines and sliced power to 70,000 homes. The Kremlin insists it hit “military-industrial”…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s overnight strikes killed at least 36 Palestinians even after President Trump ordered an “immediate” halt once Hamas signalled readiness to release hostages under a U.S.-brokered deal; Gaza’s war death-toll now tops 67,000, local officials say.(reuters.com) The apparent split between Washington’s ultimatum and Israel’s battlefield calculus underscores a hard lesson…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš’s ANO movement has captured roughly 36 % of the vote in the Czech Republic’s 4 October election, a 13-point lead over the ruling Spolu alliance and the party’s best result since 2017 (reuters.com). Financial Times tallies put ANO on course for at least 72 of the…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel’s Gaza calculus shifted overnight. Hamas publicly accepted key elements of Donald Trump’s 20-point plan and offered to release every Israeli hostage—alive or dead—while ceding day-to-day control of the strip to a technocratic authority. Trump responded by demanding an “immediate” halt to Israeli air-strikes; yet within hours F-16s were again…

Evening Analysis – The Gist A lone assailant chose Yom Kippur to ram worshippers and stab a guard outside Manchester’s Heaton Park synagogue, killing two and wounding three before police shot him dead. Greater Manchester Police call it terror; three accomplices are in custody. The attack follows a 42 % rise in U.K. antisemitic incidents…