🛢️ KUALA LUMPUR — A July deadline just appeared on the Asian energy buffer map. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Malaysia naming end-July as its supply horizon sets a hard deadline: if Hormuz isn't normalized by then, Kuala Lumpur joins the queue of Asian importers facing acute shortage. It also confirms the IEA's July red-zone warning is real — governments are now disclosing their buffers publicly, which compresses the MOU timeline.
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Real pause or tactical lull? The US and Iran hold fire for a second straight day. Oman mediates on Hormuz. Brent drops to $96 but Saudi's Red Sea route faces Houthi threat. The silence of guns is not yet peace.
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Pausa reale o pausa tattica? USA e Iran non si colpiscono per il secondo giorno consecutivo. Oman media su Hormuz. Il Brent scende a $96 ma il canale alternativo saudita è sotto attacco Houthi. Il silenzio delle armi non è ancora pace.
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🎖️ CENTCOM — The commander wants all-or-nothing, not a limited campaign. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Cooper's briefing reframes Thursday: not pause-or-resume but finish-or-forfeit. Epic Fury left 20% of targets intact — Iran's military baseline survives. Patriot depletion makes full resumption costly, but Cooper's
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📉 MARKETS — India's rupee rallies on oil relief the war hasn't actually secured. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The pause deflates Brent's war premium, giving India — top crude importer — immediate rupee and bond relief. But Hormuz mines remain, a drone struck near a US base hours ago, and