Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its port blockade, frees frozen assets and waives oil sanctions. Tehran pitched the speed as help for Trump in November's midterms, and his own reply so far is a map calling the waterway the 'Trump Strait'.
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The strongest thing to come out of Witkoff and Kushner's three hours with Putin was 72 hours of quiet over two city limits, which is thin material for anyone pricing an end to a war that has run more than four and a half years.
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The Qatar Investment Authority's new partnership with JPMorgan's asset management arm begins with a $15 billion public equities mandate, announced in the same week Qatar's Emir told the UN that the Gulf is in one of its most dangerous phases.
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Both published accounts of the call trace the agreement to meet in New York back to Zelenskyy himself, and one of the two also has him thanking Trump for the sanctions on Russia's energy sector.
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The Wall Street Journal says expanded export approval for an Armenian data centre helped secure last year's preliminary deal with Azerbaijan, which puts licence-gated compute schedules on a political clock.
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The OCC's conditional approval puts World Liberty Financial in a charter pipeline with Circle, Coinbase and Nu Holdings. Anyone pricing that pipeline is now pricing a political process.
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A conditional national trust charter would let the Trump-linked issuer combine minting, custody and reserve management under one federal supervisor. Ripple and Circle are ahead of it in the queue.
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