Vance: Made a lot of progress in talks with Iran

Exactly. Just another reason for EU/Britain/Canada/Australia amongst others to tell the MAGA Whitehouse that they broke this Strait of Hormuz shit show so they own it…
Vance reporting breathlessly to FOX to try and retain a semblance of relevance and authority.
Where’s sell your soul lil’ Marco…?
Bring on the mid terms!!!

but the markets are fake - there is automation in the algorithm were it picks up sentiment from specific sources, such as world events - but for the most part, especially when it comes to current war the algorithm either gets calibrated to react certain way or through manual intervention.

Before this war started, in regards to the forex market, around 7 day mark, the market started behaving very weird, it got unusual choppy and did an ugly stop hunt, in this case it moved up and broke technical principles, before nose diving - the same thing happened when the war ended, it got choppy but it did not perform the stop hunt, price moved up before the announcement of the ceasefire and only couple of days later, the announcement came.

If you compare volume, nothing remarkable - just average volume - however this tells clues about foresight and straight up fakery in the market. foresight by the controllers of the algo, who in turn control the market makers.

the commodities markets are different as they behave on different principles, leaning more towards FA, including insider knowledge than TA.

I am very confident most retail traders, who normally are profitable, got slaughtered during these 50 days!
(me included)

The miserable rule of the imbeciles well described. That's why religion has no place in running a country. However, these snakes will find a way to cling in. They will spend their bottom dollar on their armed goons and keep killing the public to survive as long as they can.
In Romainia the army stopped killing the people but in Iran, IRGC won't stop because they are the Mullahs.
After the war is over, they will still be able to sell oil, so the flow of money will be incoming (unless US somehow keep them from selling any oil whatsoever). They will spend it on rebuilding their centers of terror and the nightmare will continue inside Iran.
But US won't care any more as long as their objectives are met for themselves.
Oh well, at least they executed some of the worst of the regime murderers already.