🔥🇺🇸 UNCONFIRMED, but for what it's worth:

Trump is convening an emergency meeting today at 6:30 PM ET.

Unusual for a weekend, unless something very serious is happening, experts note

🔥🇮🇷 Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran — WaPo

Any potential ground operation would not amount to a full-scale invasion and could instead involve raids conducted by special operations forces and conventional infantry units.

❗️🇷🇺 There is a high probability that Telegram's operation in Russia will be restored, Human Rights Council member Ionov told TASS.

According to him, the messenger's team will most likely reach an agreement with Russia and "fulfill the conditions required, particularly regarding extremism and channels that pose a threat to our country's national security."

🌾🔥 The Middle East conflict has already begun hitting the global food system — and the consequences could prove far more serious than rising oil prices. The longer the conflict drags on, the worse it will get — The Telegraph

The conflict threatens an unprecedented crisis in the fertilizer market: supplies of urea, ammonia, and sulfur have halted for 27 "critically important" days — right before the start of the planting season.

Up to a third of global urea trade and around half of sulfur supplies come from Gulf states.

⚠️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia is urging the US to fulfill what the two countries agreed upon in Anchorage, Alaska — Ushakov in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, responding to a question about why the Americans cannot demand that Kyiv comply with the agreements

⚠️🇺🇸🇷🇺 The US will most likely not lift sanctions on Russia before the end of Trump's presidential term, said Vyacheslav Nikonov following negotiations between Russian deputies and their American counterparts.

🛢️🇬🇧 The Times: Britain may send a ship to demine the Strait of Hormuz

⚠️🇺🇦 Kyiv received assurances from the US that Washington does not intend to transfer weapons designated for Ukraine to any other party, said Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha

🇷🇺 "When a special military operation is underway, fighters and their families need support, and the state must fulfill all social obligations — it is high time for the rich and very rich to prove in deed that they are Russians and patriots" — Senator Gibatdinov hopes that big business will help the state through its contributions.

⚠️🇰🇵 North Korea has tested an upgraded solid-fuel rocket engine that could be used in intercontinental missiles capable of striking the continental United States — AP

🚫🇷🇺 State Duma deputy called statements about a possible unblocking of Telegram "information noise"

Statements about a possible unblocking of the Telegram messenger are nothing more than information noise, said Alexander Yushchenko, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications.

He was commenting on a recent statement by Human Rights Council member Alexander Ionov, who said there is a high probability that Telegram's operation in Russia will be restored.

🇮🇷🇮🇶 Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei thanked Iraq for its support of Iran

⚠️🇦🇪🇮🇷 UAE Presidential Advisor Anwar Gargash called on Iran to pay compensation to Gulf states

🛢️🇷🇺 Philippine refiner Petron has started buying Russian crude and will purchase more if the Middle East conflict continues

🇸🇪🇫🇮 Defense ministers of Sweden and Finland

🗓📊 KEY EVENTS THIS WEEK:

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Europe and UK switched to summer time — trading now opens at 10:00 MSK

Monday, March 30:
🇪🇺 Eurozone — Consumer Inflation Expectations (Mar) — 12:00 MSK
🇪🇺 Eurozone — Consumer Confidence (Mar) — 12:00 MSK
🇩🇪 Germany — CPI (Mar, prelim) — 15:00 MSK
🇺🇸 Fed Chair Powell speech — 17:30 MSK

Tuesday, March 31:
🇮🇳 India — no trading
🇦🇺 RBA Meeting Minutes — 03:30 MSK
🇨🇳 China — Manufacturing/Services/Composite PMI (Mar) — 04:30 MSK
🇬🇧 UK — GDP Q4 2025 — 09:00 MSK
🇪🇺 Eurozone — CPI (Mar) — 12:00 MSK
🇨🇦 Canada — GDP (Jan) — 15:30 MSK
🇺🇸 US — S&P Case-Shiller Index (Jan) — 16:00 MSK
🇺🇸 US — Chicago PMI (Mar) — 16:45 MSK
🇺🇸 US — CB Consumer Confidence (Mar) — 17:00 MSK
🇺🇸 US — JOLTS Job Openings (Feb) — 17:00 MSK
🛢️ US Oil — API Inventories — 23:30 MSK

Wednesday, April 1:
🇦🇺 Australia — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 01:00 MSK
🇯🇵 Japan — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 03:30 MSK
🇨🇳 China — Caixin Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 04:45 MSK
🇷🇺 Russia — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 09:00 MSK
🇨🇭 Switzerland — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 10:30 MSK
🇩🇪 Germany — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 11:00 MSK
🇪🇺 Eurozone — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 11:00 MSK
🇬🇧 UK — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 11:30 MSK
🇪🇺 Eurozone — Unemployment (Feb) — 12:00 MSK
🇬🇧 Bank of England Meeting Minutes — 12:30 MSK
🇺🇸 US — ADP Nonfarm Employment (Mar) — 15:15 MSK
🇺🇸 US — Retail Sales (Feb) — 15:30 MSK
🇷🇺 Russia — CBR Meeting Minutes — 16:00 MSK
🇧🇷 Brazil — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 16:00 MSK
🇨🇦 Canada — Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 16:30 MSK
🇺🇸 US — S&P Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 16:45 MSK
🇺🇸 US — ISM Manufacturing PMI (Mar) — 17:00 MSK
🛢️ US Oil — EIA Inventories — 17:30 MSK
🇷🇺 Russia — CPI — 19:00 MSK

Thursday, April 2:
🇨🇭 Switzerland — CPI (Mar) — 09:30 MSK
🇺🇸 US — Initial Jobless Claims — 15:30 MSK
🇺🇸 US — Trade Balance (Feb) — 15:30 MSK
🛢️ US Natgas — EIA Inventories — 17:30 MSK

Friday, April 3:
⛔️ US, UK, Canada, Hong Kong and many other markets — no trading — Good Friday
🇯🇵 Japan — Services/Composite PMI (Mar) — 03:30 MSK
🇨🇳 China — Caixin Services/Composite PMI (Mar) — 04:45 MSK
🇷🇺 Russia — Services/Composite PMI (Mar) — 09:00 MSK
🇹🇷 Turkey — CPI (Mar) — 10:00 MSK
🇺🇸 US — Nonfarm Payrolls (Mar) — 15:30 MSK
🇺🇸 US — Unemployment (Mar) — 15:30 MSK
🇺🇸 US — S&P Services/Composite PMI (Mar) — 16:45 MSK

Saturday, April 4:
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Sunday, April 5:
🛢️ OPEC Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) meeting

🇮🇷 Iran is hiding its missile arsenal in underground bunkers that even the most powerful American bombs cannot destroy. — Bild

✴️🇺🇸 Trump: A lot of people now want to pay with cryptocurrency, and the US must be at the forefront of this process.

✴️ CryptoRank: top 7 largest cryptocurrencies by growth in Q1 2026

⚠️🇮🇷 Foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey are meeting today in Islamabad to discuss de-escalation of the Iranian conflict.

Meanwhile, Iran has announced the recruitment of volunteers to repel a US ground operation, which most experts assess as now inevitable, while the IRGC has promised new strikes on "high-value" US targets.

❗️🛢️ Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt may form a consortium to manage oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and have approached Pakistan about joining. The proposal has been discussed with the US and Iran. — RTRS