Citadel Securities founder Ken Griffin told clients in a letter that the firm executed more than 100 block trades totaling over $4 billion to remove in excess of 80% of the overall risk from the portfolio it bought from Leopold’s Situational Awareness fund. Griffin said the trades required coordinated work by banks’ trading and prime-broker teams. He also confirmed Citadel’s flagship multi‑strategy Wellington Fund returned 5.94% in July, its best monthly performance since 2022.

A maritime theft monitoring group said Somali coastal piracy has risen after two new attacks this week. The incidents come as two major regional conflicts are diverting and depleting naval resources: Houthi forces last month announced a blockade on Saudi ports and have attacked several vessels, forcing many ships to avoid the area, while fighting linked to Iran has produced attacks on dozens of merchant ships in the Persian Gulf and nearby waters. Two vessels were reported hit by Somali pirates, reinforcing concerns about an uptick in Somali incidents this year. An International Maritime Bureau official, Cyrus Modi, said naval deployments remain but higher-priority threats have likely created an opening for Somali pirates, who had been effectively suppressed over the past decade; Somali piracy peaked in 2008–2010 when hundreds of ships were attacked and some owners rerouted around Africa.

據報道，霍爾木茲海峽航運流量已降至戰前水平的4%。