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Crude is pushing higher after NBC News reported that President Trump and his national security team have been discussing the possibility of restarting large-scale military operations against Iran in the coming weeks. Supply disruption fears are doing the heavy lifting here, with traders pricing in meaningful risk to Middle Eastern output. Brent and WTI both catching a bid on the headline.
Staying in that region, a suspected Iranian drone plot targeting U.K. military bases is adding another layer of tension to an already unsettled geopolitical picture. The incident raises serious questions about how Western nations protect high-value assets like bombers even thousands of miles from active conflict zones, and it is feeding directly into the broader risk premium you are seeing in energy markets today.
Shifting to semiconductors, a veteran analyst has aggressively reset his price target on Micron, arguing that artificial intelligence demand has structurally altered the memory business over a three-to-five year horizon. The key question is whether Micron can lock in long-term agreements that insulate it from the familiar boom-and-bust memory cycle that has historically punished investors who stayed too long.
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