2026-03-04 18:00:05
President Trump’s extraordinary gamble in attacking Iran and risking a wider conflagration in the Middle East dials up the economic hazards facing the US economy from “very high” to “extreme.” The point is, this new stress compounds a series of other severe pressures already facing the economy, which is now even more unlikely to emerge unscathed.
2026-03-04 15:49:23
It turns out, the biggest financial victim of President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran is not the S&P 500, but equity markets across North Asia.
2026-03-04 13:00:07
Britain’s anxious young people are making the country nervous. Rising youth unemployment has refocused attention on a cohort of almost 1 million who don’t have jobs and aren’t studying or training. Alan Milburn, a former Labour health secretary who’s leading a review for the government, says the system isn’t working and radical change is needed to prevent creating a lost generation. The country should learn from European peers that have already tackled the problem — and without delay. The window
2026-03-04 13:00:05
The same artificial-intelligence model that can help you draft a marketing email or a quick dinner recipe has also been used to attack Iran. US Central Command used Anthropic’s Claude AI for “intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios” during the strikes on the country, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
2026-03-04 12:00:06
If the selloff looks like an opportunity, it’s only because the risks are very real.
2026-03-04 12:00:04
As bad behavior in finance goes, the idea of insiders betting on the US and Israel attacking Iran is about as appalling as it gets. Cashing in on death and destruction across the Middle East — or anywhere else — would be despicable. But beyond the moral dimension, there’s also the issue of national security: Given that handing such information to an enemy would be an act of treason, should risking intelligence leaks through price signals be seen as any less traitorous?
