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Today’s Brief

Two tankers and $100 oil

Houthis jolt oil markets as Trump escalates Iran war and ECB holds fire

The day's news ran through chokepoints, courtrooms and code. A tanker war drove oil back above $100, Brussels fined Google, Europe burned, and AI supplied both a cyber scare and a liability test.

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The war in Ukraine and its limits

Ukraine's expansion of drone strikes to a military enterprise in Kirov and President Zelensky's framing of these attacks as a "long-range sanctions" campaign indicate an evolving strategy.

Trump imposes forced labour tariffs on 60 nations as temporary 10% levy expires · Pollar