CL Home prices posted a thirteenth straight month of gains, which anywhere else is a headline and here is a mood stabilizer. Tankers burned off Egypt, and Saudi Arabia joined Washington's war on Iran, the kind of news that once sent oil desks scrambling. Tonight the close barely moved.-- CL

MB Institutions spent the day confirming what everyone already suspected, which is usually the tell. The monetary strikes widened without anyone calling it a war widening. Hong Kong developers posted numbers up nearly five hundred percent and called it a solid quarter. A bank chief got told to bow out by the same commentary that once called him steady. Officials described exactly the situation they were denying.-- MB