News and Analysis 4/18/26

“Virtually nothing has changed yet, and the markets overreacted to the announcements” …

… “Tehran put limits on the Strait of Hormuz’s opening, as the United States issued a new sanctions exemption on the sale of Russian oil”:

“International flights are now allowed to transit through eastern part of Iran’s airspace, says Civil Aviation Organization“:

“[T]his war has demonstrated how the superpower that has always tried to cloak its use of power with legitimacy and, as a last resort, has become a disruptive and crude rogue state” — Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School:

“The question is, how will markets continue to cope with increased volatility that seems to be happening on a daily basis?”:

“The military operation has exposed a deepening rift among the GOP, with some lawmakers growing wary about how long it could last, as Trump offers conflicting messages on whether the U.S. has achieved its stated objectives”:


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