The deal is done. The hard part starts Friday.

US–IRAN / HORMUZ DE-ESCALATING

Trump announced Sunday that the deal is "now complete," authorized the removal of the US naval blockade, and ordered the Strait open for mine-clearing operations beginning Friday upon formal signing in Switzerland. Iran's Supreme National Security Council confirmed hostilities end immediately on all fronts, including Lebanon. The MOU is a 60-day ceasefire extension — not a final agreement — with nuclear provisions entirely deferred. Iran has made no new nuclear commitments in the current text. WTI fell $4.69 to $80.19 and Brent dropped 4.2% to $83.68, their lowest levels since March.

ISRAEL / LEBANON HOLDING

Israel's Defense Minister Katz stated Monday that Israel is not bound by the US–Iran MOU and will not withdraw from territory seized in Lebanon. A Beirut strike on Sunday killed 3 and wounded 15 in Dahiyeh, drawing a Trump rebuke and nearly collapsing the deal before signing. Iran's MOU text requires hostilities in Lebanon to end immediately — but the IDF says operations against Hezbollah continue. This contradiction is the deal's most exposed seam. Watch Friday's signing ceremony and whether an Israeli strike intervenes before it.

WARSH / FOMC HOLDING

The FOMC meets Tuesday and Wednesday in Warsh's first session as chair. A hold at 3.50–3.75% is fully priced, with CME FedWatch showing a 98.3% probability of no move. What isn't priced is Warsh's press conference Wednesday — specifically how he handles the dot plot and whether he signals the end of Powell-era forward guidance. J.P. Morgan now forecasts the Fed on hold for all of 2026, with a possible hike in Q3 2027 if inflation stays elevated.

UKRAINE / RUSSIA HOLDING

118 combat engagements were recorded along the front line on June 14, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole axes. A Russian strike on Kharkiv set the city's art museum ablaze and wounded six. Ukraine's offensive reach into Russian territory has continued to expand in 2026 — Russian naval vessels remain docked at home ports with no presence reported in the Black Sea or Sea of Azov. Zelensky attends the G7 in Evian this week, pressing for continued Western commitments.

G7 / EVIAN NEW

The 52nd G7 summit opened Monday in Évian-les-Bains, France, running through June 17. Macron's stated agenda — global macroeconomic imbalances, critical mineral supply chains, AI — has been immediately overshadowed by the Iran deal. Leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE join sessions on the Middle East. France's formula for the summit's core tension: China produces too much, the US consumes too much, Europe invests too little. Whether Trump engages that framing or uses Evian as a victory lap for the Iran deal will shape what, if anything, emerges from the communiqué.

SPACEX / IPO DE-ESCALATING

SpaceX closed its first day of trading on Friday at $160.95, up 19% from its $135 offer price, on volume exceeding 500 million shares. The IPO raised $75 billion — the largest in history — giving the company a market cap above $2.1 trillion on day one. After-hours trading pushed shares to $166.85. Markets are closed Friday for Juneteenth, trimming the week's trading window just as the Iran deal signing and FOMC decision land simultaneously.

The Iran MOU Prices in Peace. The Mines Are Still There.

CONFIDENCE: MODERATE

What

The US and Iran agreed Sunday to a memorandum of understanding that ends active hostilities, lifts the US naval blockade, and opens the Strait of Hormuz to toll-free shipping beginning Friday upon formal signing in Switzerland. The deal is a 60-day ceasefire extension — not a final treaty. Iran made no new commitments on its nuclear program in the current text. Iran has 30 days to clear the mines it laid in the strait before full shipping volumes can return. WTI dropped to $80.19 and Brent to $83.68, their lowest prints since March 10.

So What

Oil markets moved as though the strait is already open and global supply is normalized. Neither is true yet. Mine-clearing operations alone require a minimum of 30 days under the MOU's own terms, and repairing the commercial infrastructure around Hormuz — port operations, insurance underwriting, charter rates — will take longer still. The $4 drop in WTI today also assumes Israel stops striking Lebanon. Katz announced Monday that Israel is not bound by the MOU and will not leave seized Lebanese territory. Iran's Supreme National Security Council says the ceasefire covers Lebanon. Those two statements cannot both hold. The 60-day nuclear window is the deal's other landmine: Iran enters it having made zero new commitments on enrichment, and its 440.9 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity — one technical step from weapons grade — sits untouched. If those talks collapse in August, the MOU unravels. Markets are pricing the clean outcome. The clean outcome has the most conditions attached to it.

Now What

Watch Friday's signing ceremony. Any Israeli strike on Lebanese territory before the pen hits paper could collapse the deal in real time — that is the single most acute risk between now and Friday. Beyond that, the 30-day mine-removal clock and the 60-day nuclear negotiation window are the two timers that matter for energy markets through August.

Warsh Chairs His First Meeting. The Rate Isn't the Story.

CONFIDENCE: HIGH

What

Kevin Warsh chairs his first FOMC meeting Tuesday and Wednesday. The rate decision lands Wednesday alongside a fresh dot plot and Summary of Economic Projections. CME FedWatch puts the probability of a hold at 3.50–3.75% at 98.3% — the decision itself is settled. The Fed funds rate has been unchanged across three consecutive meetings: January, March, and April. Warsh holds a press conference Wednesday afternoon, his first high-profile platform since being sworn in May 15 on a 54–45 Senate vote.

So What

The rate is already priced. What isn't priced is the dot plot and the communication shift. Warsh has previously argued that the Fed constrains itself with detailed forward guidance — that the detailed disclosures and projected rate paths Powell relied on are a liability, not an asset. If he steps back from that framework on Wednesday, markets lose their anchor. Every subsequent economic data release becomes a larger event, because investors no longer have a Fed roadmap to smooth out surprises. That repricing is not a small thing for bond volatility. The April FOMC saw four dissents — the most since October 1992 — meaning Warsh inherits a divided committee before he speaks a single public word as chair. How he handles that division in the press conference will signal whether the Fed of the next two years looks like an institution or a negotiation. J.P. Morgan forecasts no cuts in 2026 and a possible 25-basis-point hike in Q3 2027. The front end of the curve has not fully absorbed that scenario.

Now What

Wednesday's press conference is the event. Read the dot plot first — a median shift toward fewer cuts in 2026 is a hawkish surprise regardless of Warsh's words. Then watch whether Warsh answers forward guidance questions directly or deflects. The deflection itself is information. May retail sales data also drops Wednesday, providing a real-time read on consumer resilience under sustained energy-driven inflation.

Oil at $80 Is Not Cheap. It's Where the Supply Chain Breaks.

CONFIDENCE: MODERATE

What

WTI is now at $80.19 following the Iran deal announcement — down roughly 12% from mid-week levels, and at the lowest point since March 10. Brent is at $83.68. That's below the fiscal breakeven for Saudi Arabia ($90+) and well below Russia's wartime budget requirements. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated last week that oil prices could "come down very quickly" once a deal was signed. They did. PPI for May came in at 6.5%, with a significant portion sitting in intermediate demand — costs that have not yet reached retail shelves.

So What

Markets are treating the oil drop as an inflation cure. It isn't — not yet and possibly not at all. The PPI pipeline built up during three-plus months of Hormuz closure is still working through the system. That cost sits in manufacturing inputs, transportation, and intermediate goods. It will show up in CPI for months after oil stabilizes. The second problem is OPEC+ math. Saudi Arabia and the UAE cannot balance their budgets at $80. A Hormuz reopening that pushes prices toward $75 creates fiscal pressure in Riyadh that historically translates to production restraint — meaning OPEC+ cuts that partially offset the supply relief the deal was supposed to provide. The energy market is not moving from wartime disruption back to 2024 calm. It is moving from one set of structural pressures to a different one.

Now What

Watch the next OPEC+ production meeting for any signals of output restraint in response to falling prices. The CPI print that follows the first full month of Hormuz reopening will be the real test — that data won't land until late summer. Between now and then, the gap between falling oil prices and the stubbornly elevated intermediate cost pipeline is the number the market hasn't priced.

The G7's Critical Minerals Agenda Just Got Buried Under the Iran Deal

Macron's stated priority for the Evian G7 summit — beyond Ukraine and Middle East diplomacy — was a coordinated Western framework on critical mineral supply chains. The French presidency had organized specific working sessions on economic security and mineral supply, with an OECD-linked forum running parallel to the summit. Leaders of India, Brazil, South Korea, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE were invited into sessions on the issue. A joint statement was expected that would set standards and traceability requirements for lithium, cobalt, and rare earths — a direct response to China's export controls on strategic materials.

That agenda is now competing for air with the Iran deal, the Hormuz reopening timeline, and Iran's nuclear program. Every bilateral meeting, every press conference, and every working dinner at Evian this week will default to the Middle East. The mineral supply chain framework — which has direct implications for EV supply chains, defense manufacturing, and the energy transition — will likely emerge, if at all, as a footnote in the communiqué rather than the lead deliverable.

China's rare earth export licensing controls — Announcement No. 18 — remain in force regardless of what the G7 issues. If Evian produces a weak or delayed Western response to China's mineral chokehold, Beijing simply extends the window it already has. The Iran deal pulled every senior Western leader's attention east. The strategic materials problem sits quietly to the north and west, and no one at Evian has bandwidth to address it properly this week.

SOURCE: Council on Foreign Relations G7 Preview, June 11, 2026; EU Council G7 Summit Agenda, June 15, 2026; EY Geostrategic Analysis, June 2026

Three major events land before Friday's close: the FOMC decision Wednesday, the Iran MOU signing Friday, and markets closing early for Juneteenth. All three arrive in a shortened week with equity futures already up over 1% on the Iran deal optimism. That is a week with very little room for disappointment and a great deal of room for error.

The pattern here is 1991, not 2003. The Gulf War ceasefire in 1991 produced an immediate oil price collapse — WTI fell from $32 to $18 in weeks — but the underlying inflation that built during the conflict took another 18 months to clear from the system. The Fed held tight through that period. Warsh will face the same arithmetic on Wednesday: falling oil prices that create political pressure for relief, and a pipeline of embedded costs that haven't reached the consumer yet.

The week ends with a signed deal, a new Fed chair's first public statement, and a G7 communiqué that may or may not address the supply chain problem that outlasts all of them. The market that celebrates the Iran deal on Monday is not the market that faces the 60-day nuclear clock in August.

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