Conflicting statements from the USA and Iran around 25 March gave some hope of a negotiated peace being within reach. However, this might be distant given that the two sides’ plans seem fairly directly opposed. The US dollar has been among the main beneficiaries in markets of recent news, up in most of its pairs, while gold’s decline continued. As widely expected, the USA didn’t proceed with destroying Iran’s energy infrastructure on 23 March as threatened by Donald Trump. However, reports from Egyptian ...