2026-07-09 14:00 UTC | BLOCK 957310
BITCOIN $62,856 | GOLD $4,109 | OIL $77.56
1. Iran rushes 11 million barrels of crude to sea as Trump threatens renewed blockade
-- Tehran loaded tankers carrying roughly 11 million barrels of crude in the past 24 hours as President Trump threatened to reimpose a blockade on Iranian oil exports, Bloomberg reported.
-- The export sprint builds Iran a revenue cushion before any embargo bites, and traders are watching for a supply gap; Brent held near $77.77 after Tuesday's biggest single-day jump since May.
2. Trump threatens to cut off all US trade with Spain over NATO spending
-- Trump told reporters he wants to end all trade with Spain, calling it a "terrible partner in NATO," and European markets sold off on the remark.
-- Because Brussels, not Madrid, negotiates trade policy for EU members, any actual cutoff would trigger bloc-wide retaliatory tariffs and inject fresh geopolitical risk into transatlantic supply chains while US forces are engaged against Iran.
3. ECB minutes show inflation staying above target even with rate hikes penciled in
-- Accounts of the ECB's June meeting released Thursday show baseline projections kept inflation above target despite incorporating nearly three rate rises.
-- Euro-area borrowing costs are likely to climb for longer than markets assumed, widening the policy gap with a divided Fed, whose own June minutes showed officials split on which way rates should move next.
4. Supreme Court lets Texas enforce app store age-verification law
-- The US Supreme Court declined to block a Texas law requiring app stores to verify user ages and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps.
-- Apple and Google now face legal exposure in the country's second-largest state unless they build identity checks into app distribution, a privacy setback that ties routine software downloads to government-verified ID and hands other legislatures a ready template.
5. Labour MPs push permanent UK ban on crypto political donations
-- Labour MPs are proposing a permanent statutory ban on political donations made in cryptocurrency, the Financial Times reported, amid controversy over Reform UK's funding sources.
-- A statutory ban would be the UK's first crypto-specific campaign-finance regulation, raising compliance and legal exposure for parties that accepted digital-asset donations and setting a policy precedent other democracies weighing similar restrictions are likely to import.
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