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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Pentagon deploys thousands of additional Marines and three warships to the Middle East.
🛢Brent > $109

🙂 Trump invested in Vulcan Elements at a valuation of $200 million. The Pentagon also announced a $620 million loan to the company, - Bloomberg.
Vulcan’s valuation has now reached $2 billion—a growth potential of nearly 900% in just a few months.

Risk-off sentiment is intensifying
The escalation in the Middle East remains the main factor weighing on markets, as the situation is only worsening: strikes on the energy sector continue, oil prices are rising, and there's no end in sight to the conflict.
Added to this is Powell's hawkish tone at the Fed meeting, who bluntly stated that no declines are expected due to rising prices and inflation. Markets are now pricing in a decline, and some major banks are pricing in no declines at all this year. All of this is putting pressure on the market, especially the stock market.
At such moments, we

📷 In the UAE, 109 people were arrested for filming and distributing fake news.
Authorities warn against filming or publishing unverified information.

📖 Meta will continue to lose control, - The Guardian.
🔎 Meta's agent has been uncovering confidential company and company data for two years to unauthorized agents after asking an engineer to analyze a case from an internal forum. The system independently published evidence without permission, made incorrect recommendations, and as a result, one of the subsequent actions of the spyware resulted in the creation of access to a large amount of data for third parties.
👀 The incident was detected by Sev-1 - the highest level of criticality.
➣ Just earlier, the Meta security director reported tha

🏦🇺🇸 Morgan Stanley expects Fed to cut rates
Now the bank predicts the first declines in the spring and the chest replacement of the red and verny. And if the economy does not show weakening, then the decline may be transferred further.
🔎 Reasons:
➣ More cautious signal from the Fed after the rest of the meeting
➣ Powell said that clear progress in reducing inflation is needed
➣ Increase in naphtha prices and geopolitical risks

Iran's strikes on Qatar have disabled 17% of the country's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity. This threatens fuel exports to Europe and Asia for the next five years, QatarEnergy CEO and Minister of State for Energy Saad bin Sharida Al Kaabi told Reuters.
He noted that repairs will take approximately three to five years, resulting in the loss of 12.8 million tonnes of LNG production annually. The damage to QatarEnergy is estimated at $20 billion per year.

Iran has begun charging fees for "safe passage" through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has opened a "safe passage" through the Strait of Hormuz for ships with prior approval and, in some cases, likely for a fee. According to Lloyd's List, citing sources, at least one tanker has paid Tehran approximately $2 million for passage.
The initiative is being implemented with the participation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Approved vessels transit Iranian territorial waters near Larak Island, where IRGC forces and port authorities visually identify the ships.
Several countries, including

🔼🛢️Saudi Arabia is buying nafta at $180, as supplies will be disrupted after the war, - WSJ.

The IRGC announced the death of its spokesman, IRGC Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini, in an Israeli airstrike.