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USD/IDR extends its gains for the third consecutive day, trading around 17,950 during the Asian hours on Friday. The pair appreciates as the US Dollar (USD) receives support amid renewed risk aversion following fresh military friction in the Middle East, which tempered recent diplomatic optimism.Fox News reported that US forces intercepted and shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones near the critical Strait of Hormuz after they attempted to target commercial vessels. Conversely, Iranian state media attributed explosion sounds in Sirik to a confrontation with a vessel breaching the waterway. They claimed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a…

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The delay is unlikely to move broad markets but adds to a pattern of Trump-era trade friction with Canada, alongside tariff hikes and threats not to renew the trade deal with Mexico and Canada. For cross-border freight and logistics operators, a further postponement of capacity relief on the busiest US-Canada freight corridor extends existing bottleneck costs, though officials frame the delay as a matter of weeks rather than a structural setback.—The US and Canada have delayed the opening of the $4.7bln Gordie Howe bridge between Detroit and Windsor after Trump raised objections, with PM Carney saying Canada agreed to take…

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The British Pound spent most of Thursday doing what everything else did, leaking lower while Washington and Tehran traded fire, then exploding higher when President Trump canceled the evening’s planned strikes just after 17:30 GMT and declared a deal all but done. GBP/USD gained more than a full big figure off the lows, and not one pip of it was earned in the UK.That matters more for Cable than most, because the Pound now has to defend a borrowed rally through one of the heaviest scheduled stretches on the calendar. What the geopolitical whipsaw handed over on Thursday, the data…

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Trump writes:Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening. Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others. The Naval Blockade will remain in full force and effect until this Transaction is finalized — Time and place of the…

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