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A World on Edge: Markets Rise as Crises Multiply

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The day's central paradox was financial: equity futures advanced sharply even as two nuclear-armed standoffs, a record drone barrage over Russia, and a cascade of institutional disruptions competed for global attention. S&P futures rose nearly one percent to 7,396, a figure that seemed to defy the weight of events unfolding beneath it.

President Trump threatened to resume bombing Iran 'at a much higher level' while simultaneously claiming a framework deal was within reach — demanding Tehran transfer its enriched uranium to the United States. Hours earlier, Ukraine had dispatched 347 unmanned aircraft across Russia in its largest single drone assault of the war, and some of those drones had veered off course and struck an oil depot in Latvia, scrambling NATO jets across the eastern flank.

Iran struck the United Arab Emirates with missiles and drones overnight, triggering emergency UN Security Council talks. France dispatched a carrier group toward the Red Sea. Recession odds on the prediction platform Kalshi fell from 41 percent to 21.6 percent after Trump announced a pause in the Hormuz escort operation — a market signal that investors were betting heavily on diplomatic resolution even as the tactical picture darkened.

Elsewhere, Elon Musk dissolved xAI to create SpaceXAI, Anthropic's Claude acquired a memory-based 'dreaming' capability, and Google was reportedly preparing to let its Gemini model control Mac computers. Moody's warned that two-thirds of top software-as-a-service companies may not survive the AI transition. The Justice Department moved to fire immigration judges deemed too slow. Global debt reached a record $353 trillion as investors retreated from U.S. Treasuries.