Iranian state and local media said a US strike near Sirik in southern Iran on the night of Sept. 1-2 killed civilians, including children; Tehran condemned the attack as a war crime. Ali Akbar Dareini, a researcher at Tehran's Center for Strategic Studies, told Al Jazeera the strike "cannot be ignored" and said Iran must respond, warning it could be a "prelude to a larger-scale war." He said the US appears to be combining sanctions, a maritime blockade and military strikes to try to force Iran t

新西兰联储主席布雷曼：持续高企的燃油价格意味着，出现比我们此前预期更多间接影响的风险。

U.S. equities halted a three-day slide on Wednesday, trading in a narrow range as a pause in oil’s advance eased inf worries and traders continued to reassess the Fed’s potential rate path. The Nasdaq 100 slipped intraday after recording its worst one-day performance in two weeks on Tuesday. Renewed U.S.-Iran tensions over control of the Strait of Hormuz had driven an earlier oil surge amid fears the conflict could be prolonged; U.S. crude fell back below $90/bbl on Wednesday and U.S. Treasury yields eased. Market sentiment remained muted: through Tuesday the S&P 500 had gone 24 trading days without a decline greater than 1%, a calm last seen in mid-May when cooling inf data boosted bets on resilient U.S. growth and corporate earnings.