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2025-10-10 • Europe shifts its trade focus from steel to lithium, imposing duties up to 38.1% on
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Europe’s trade war has shifted from steel to lithium. In the last 24 hours the European Commission told automakers it will slap provisional duties of up to 38.1 % on battery-electric cars built in China—tripling the current levy and taking effect by early Novemb…
Read More2025-10-09 • Israel and Hamas accept Trump’s Gaza plan: 48-for-2,000 swap, partial pull
Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel and Hamas, under intense regional pressure, have accepted the first phase of President Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan: a 48-for-2,000 hostage-prisoner swap, partial Israeli pull-back, and an immediate surge of aid into a territory where war has killed more than 6…
Read More2025-10-09 • Israel and Hamas agree to a 72-hour cease-fire: release hostages, prisoner swap, and
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Israel and Hamas have finally accepted the first phase of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire: a 72-hour window to release 20 hostages, swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and pull Israeli forces back from most of Gaza. It is the first concrete halt to the two-year wa…
Read More2025-10-08 • Asahi hit by Qilin ransomware, freezing beer shipments. 29 images leaked from 27GB
Evening Analysis – The Gist Japan’s Asahi Group has confirmed that the Russian-speaking Qilin gang posted 29 images of stolen files—part of a 27 GB trove spanning 9,300 documents—days after a ransomware hit froze beer shipments nationwide and forced a five-day production halt(reuters.com) Qil…
Read More2025-10-08 • AstraZeneca’s baxdrostat cut systolic pressure by 11 mmHg in trials, nearing
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 …
Read More2025-10-07 • WTO cuts 2026 trade growth to 0.5%, raises 2025 to
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 be…
Read More2025-10-07 • France’s government collapsed in seven hours, the shortest in the Fifth Republic, impacting markets. Macron faces
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 yi…
Read More2025-10-06 • Sebastien Lecornu’s 27-day premiership ends, marking France’s third PM collapse in a
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…
Read More2025-10-06 • Israel’s war cabinet faces a dilemma: far-right ministers may quit over a cease-fire, risking elections
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 …
Read More2025-10-05 • Lviv faced war’s toll: 500 drones, 50 missiles. Russia’s largest strike on
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…
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