The Nigerien Civil Aviation Authority said on the afternoon of Aug. 29 local time that Niamey’s Diori Hamani International Airport had fully resumed normal flight operations. In the early hours of Aug. 29, multiple locations in Niamey reported intensive gunfire and explosions, including around the airport and the presidential palace. The Nigerien Defense Ministry said late on Aug. 29 that soldiers from Military Base No. 101 had attempted a mutiny earlier that day; the situation has since been br

China International Capital Co said Fed Chair KEVIN WARSH adopted a hawkish tone at Jackson Hole, acknowledging inf remains elevated, reaffirming interest rates as the primary policy tool and saying he will 'act as needed.' He pointed to economic resilience, stable employment and loose financial conditions to justify a policy bias toward fighting inf, attributed 65 months of inf overshoot to the central bank, and corrected July’s ambiguous suggestion that markets should 'replace the Fed' in raising rates. CICC said the speech helps rebuild Fed credibility and markets have begun to price a marginal restoration of policy credibility. Warsh continues to argue that AI could reshape the economy and policy framework and is pushing reforms including reduced forward guidance. Market implication: the remarks raise the probability of a Fed hike this year but are not unambiguously negative — liquidity is not scarce now; what markets lack is policy discipline and predictability, and timely containment of inf would be supportive over the medium term.

前美國駐伊拉克和科威特大使道格拉斯·西利曼表示，美國對伊朗的戰爭若缺乏明確戰略，可能讓華盛頓陷入目標不斷漂移的困境。特朗普在發動這場衝突時，除了推翻德黑蘭政權之外，並無一個具體的戰略目標。政權並未垮臺，於是特朗普在隨後幾周又拋出了“五六個”其他目標。如今目標再次改變——特朗普想“重新開放霍爾木茲海峽”，並“通過談判削減或消除”伊朗的核計劃。這些變化究竟算“目標更加精準”還是“標準降低”，取決於看待的角度。如果你是白宮裏的共和黨人，那就是目標更加精準。如果你作爲批判性分析師從外部觀察，那就是一開始並不知道自己要幹什麼，然後爲了脫身而不斷降低標準。