Sunday's News Links

[AP] US and Iran trade threats of expanding war after strikes near sites tied to nuclear sites

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump And Iran Trade War Threats With Hormuz Crisis Building

[Reuters] Trump threatens Iran with power plant strikes over Hormuz oil blockade

[Reuters] Scores hurt after Iranian missiles hit Israeli desert towns

[Axios] Washington ignores America's fiscal cliff

[Reuters] Iran war's energy impact forces world to pay up, cut consumption

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Shockwave of War Is Rippling Through the Global Economy

[Bloomberg] A Kharg Island Invasion Won’t Solve Trump’s Oil Problem

[Bloomberg] Cuba Says Its Military Is Prepared as Trump’s Threats Multiply

[Bloomberg] Wall Street’s Favorite Emerging-Market Bet Falters as War Rages

[Bloomberg] Fed’s Powell Lauds Volcker Record in Face of Political Pressure

[WSJ] The New Weapons of Global Power Are Oil, Rare Earths and Microchips

[WSJ] Empires Have Battled Over the Strait of Hormuz for Centuries

[WSJ] Iran’s Houthi Allies Lie in Wait on Another Key Oil Route: the Red Sea

[FT] Jay Powell extols ‘independence and integrity’ after latest attacks by Trump

[FT] How Trump’s attack on Iran risks dragging US into Middle East ‘quagmire’

[FT] World faces gas supply cliff edge as Gulf’s final LNG shipments approach ports

[FT] Iran war leaves US oil and gas dealmaking ‘in paralysis’

[FT] AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses

[FT] China touts itself as ‘harbour of stability’ to global CEOs

Saturday's News Links

[AP] Israel threatens a surge in attacks as Iran fires missiles farther than ever

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] The Oil Prices You See Don’t Tell the Market’s Real Story

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Charting the Global Economy: Interest-Rate Hikes May Be Coming

[Axios] Iran war's economic shocks could reverberate for a while

[Reuters] Three weeks in, Iran war escalates beyond Trump's control

[Politico] Israel, Iran launch fresh attacks as Trump floats ‘winding down’ Mideast operations

[AP] Iran war halts Qatar helium output, threatening global tech supply chains

[Reuters] Exclusive: Iraq declares force majeure on foreign-operated oilfields over Hormuz disruption, sources say

[Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead Persistent Iran war, energy price surge set to sway wavering stocks

[Reuters] Blackstone's flagship private credit fund posts first monthly loss in over three years

[Politico] Switzerland halts weapons exports to US over Iran conflict

[NYT] The Strait of Hormuz Was Supposed to Be Too Big to Fail

[WSJ] Iran Believes It’s Winning—and Wants a Steep Price to End the War

[WSJ] Why the Fed’s Next Rate Move Could Be a Hike

[WSJ] Iran War Puts U.S. Diplomatic Missions in the Crosshairs

[FT] Iran war raises the risk of a bond market shock

[FT] Taiwan concerned by depletion of US missile stocks during Iran war