Mariupol, what happened?
Did the worms store fuel or other flammable products illegally on occupied territory again?

They wouldn't be that foolish?!

🇷🇺Lavrov landed in the Philippines for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting.

🇺🇸Rubio is already there.

Iran and Ukraine are expected to top the agenda.

Diplomatic contact is not resolution.

The market already made that mistake once this year, reading June's Hormuz reopening as the end of the war premium, only to watch it round trip back to 90 dollars in under a month.

Watch what comes out of the room, not the fact that the room exists.

Black Pearl 🛳

When you realize your potential as a trader is limitless...

Ethereum trying to hit $5K

They know where every stop loss and every piece of liquidity is

And they hunt it every single time

🚨 JAPAN HAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM

USD/JPY is back at 162.7, a very dangerous level.

On June 16, the BOJ raised rates to 1%, the highest since 1995. Normally that strengthens a currency but the yen barely moved.

Before that, in April and May, Japan spent a record ¥11.73 trillion ($73.5 billion) buying yen directly. It strengthened for a few days, then the entire move reversed.

In early July, Japan tried something else. Reports said the government wants to push its giant pension fund, GPIF, into buying more domestic assets instead of foreign ones. The yen strengthened on that news too.

Again, none of it held. Today USD/JPY sits at the same level it hit before any of this happened.

A weak yen isn't just a currency problem for Japan.

It raises the cost of every barrel of oil and every unit of food Japan imports, feeding directly into inflation that's already running above the BOJ's target.

It also erodes real wages for ordinary households, even as the stock market and exporters benefit.

Three different tools have now failed to fix it, and Japan is running out of options.

‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 BIG | The high-stakes race for orbital dominance has entered a critical new phase as the Kremlin scrambles to break Western space superiority and build its own war-time satellite network.

Russia has deployed its second batch of Rassvet (Рассвет) satellites into low Earth orbit, taking concrete steps to develop a sovereign tactical space constellation. According to Ukrainian intelligence assessments highlighted by defense advisor Serhiy "Flash," up to 40 of these low-orbit units are now hovering in space, laying the groundwork for a dedicated military network. While Moscow remains light-years behind SpaceX's gargantuan 15,000-satellite Starlink fleet or Amazon Kuiper's expanding orbital grid, the Kremlin’s goal is unmistakable: establishing independent satellite communications, real-time drone targeting, and un-hackable battlefield command loops for the Russian armed forces.

This orbital expansion reveals a dangerous long-term evolution in modern warfare doctrine. Although Russia's current space asset count is a fraction of what is needed for full orbital coverage, ignoring this initial deployment would be a fatal mistake. By establishing an independent military constellation, Moscow is explicitly working to neutralize Western space-denial strategies and eliminate its reliance on third-party comms. If allowed to scale into hundreds of operational units, this Russian Starlink equivalent will dramatically boost the Kremlin’s deep-strike precision, electronic warfare resilience, and frontline drone coordination across the Ukrainian warzone.

Houthis declare Red Sea naval blockade on Saudi Arabia and its trading partners

SpaceX $SPCX share unlock schedule ending at 100% December 2026.

Keep in mind only 5% of float is trading right now and most early investors bought for $0.02 - $1.22 per share.

That's a lot of selling coming...

UBS proposes bundling private credit loans into investment grade A2 bonds

By diversifying the loans the ratings agencies can label the bonds as investment grade, allowing them to sell to insurance companies and retirement funds.

Morgan Stanley is trying to offload their garbage AI data-center loans onto unsuspecting investors 🚨

America's 2nd richest man (Larry Ellison) needs a government bailout.

$ORCL & OpenAI can't pay for the $NVDA orders they've placed.

🚨113 years ago this week, Churchill warned that safety in OIL lies in variety, never in a single route.

Putin's regime continues selling off a record amount of Russian Central Bank gold to fund the war, with June sales bringing the 6 month total to 43.5 metric tonnes.

Putin's central bank now claims to have over 2200 tonnes remaining, but this is widely claimed to be a fabrication.

The sales were mainly made to Russian banks.

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