Kuwait Intercepts, a Fifth Disable, and Friday’s Records Monday’s Daily Update — twenty-four stories on ballistic intercepts over Kuwait, Lian Star’s Hellfire, still-binding PLC orders, and a nitrate curve that turned in 2009.
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Sunday-night intercepts over Kuwait and a Hellfire in Lian Star’s engine room sit on an April ceasefire CENTCOM still says is in effect, while Friday’s record closes do not reopen Hormuz.
CENTCOM: two Iranian ballistic missiles aimed at U.S. forces in Kuwait intercepted at 11 p.m. ET Sunday; no American personnel harmed. M/V Lian Star is the fifth commercial hull disabled after a May 29 Hellfire into the engine room; 116 others redirected. AA26-097A (April 7) still tells U.S. water and energy owners to pull internet-exposed PLCs; SB26-152 is a separate week-of-May-25 patch catalog. Friday cash: S&P 7,580.06, Dow 51,032.46, Nasdaq 26,972.62; Brent last settled $92.05. ISM is due 10 a.m. ET — not in this edition. Exaforce closed a $125 million Series B; Runlayer emerged with an $11 million seed for MCP security. Edinburgh Fram Strait series: nitrate in Arctic outflow has fallen since about 2009 as sea ice retreated. Browse past Daily Updates · Permalink for this edition