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Iran is back at the center of energy markets this morning after the fragile U.S.-Iran truce showed serious cracks over the weekend. President Trump announced what he called Project Freedom, pledging to help vessels navigate the Strait of Hormuz, directly challenging Tehran's leverage over that critical chokepoint. Oil prices responded immediately, spiking six percent as traders repriced geopolitical risk into crude.
Feeding into that broader macro backdrop, the USS Gerald R. Ford has transited the Suez Canal and is now heading through the Mediterranean toward home, ending what became a record-length deployment to the Middle East. The carrier's departure signals a shift in U.S. naval posture in the region, and markets will be watching closely whether that repositioning changes the calculus around Persian Gulf security.
Meanwhile, Starbucks is navigating its own two-front war. CEO Brian Niccol took fire on social media for calling a nine-dollar drink a quote really affordable premium experience, but Wall Street told a different story. Niccol delivered the quarter investors had been waiting more than two years for, with the turnaround strategy gaining enough traction that analysts are increasingly willing to look past the headlines and focus on the margin recovery underneath.
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