The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates unchanged for the third consecutive time this year, maintaining the federal funds target range at 3.50% to 3.75% following its latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting. While the move was widely expected, the decision was marked by an unusual
Strait of Hormuz
The global oil market has once again been thrust into a period of heightened geopolitical sensitivity, with traders increasingly focused on the strategic vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz. The narrow maritime corridor, through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply transits, has become the central variable shaping price expectations for crude benchmarks, […]











