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Strong Employment Coupled with High Energy Prices Leads Market to Fully Price in Fed Rate Hike This Year  NAI500

Fed Beige Book June 2026: Middle East Conflict Fuels Strong Inflation as Prices Rise Moderately to Strongly  KuCoin

Will the Federal Reserve cut rates again this year? Only one investment bank on Wall Street still 'holds' this view: Citi.  富途牛牛

The Market Is Starting To Price In Something Most People Still Don't See Authored by Milan Adams, There is a strange disconnect developing between financial markets and the average person. Most people still see the situation with Iran as another distant geopolitical story. It appears on television for a few minutes, disappears behind domestic political news, and then returns a few days later when another headline emerges. Investors, however, are beginning to treat it very differently. They are not watching the negotiations because they care about diplomatic symbolism. They are watching because a growing number of traders believe the global economy may be far more vulnerable to a prolonged disruption than policymakers are willing to admit. The irony is that the biggest threat is no longer war itself. The biggest threat is uncertainty. For months, markets con

Tech stocks lead market bloodbath as fears of Fed rate hikes add to worries about the AI-fueled chip boom petering out  Fortune

Waste Of The Day: Mismanagement At SF Zoo Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The taxpayer-funded San Francisco Zoo "does not have a healthy or stable financial condition," according to a city audit released in May. The zoo has no written plans or budgets to guide its construction projects, and spent $12 million on them without city approval. Employees are also allegedly hiring their friends and relatives as contractors. Key facts: The zoo is required to get approval from San Francisco's Recreation and Park Commission before paying more than $50,000 for a construction project. But employees never did so while spending millions on a new "Madagascar Center" and other huge projects, auditors found. There is also a "widespread view among staff that [the zoo] has a toxic workplace environment," according to the audit. Employees were allegedly cho