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Four officials queue up behind a December hike as pricing slips to ~72% and the data stop moving the path
The post-meeting speaker wave ran hawkish — Logan, Musalem and Barkin all argued for more hikes within hours of each other — but December pricing fell rather than rose, to roughly 72–75% from the 91% peak JPMorgan recorded, and the PCE/GDP release left the Fed path priced unchanged, so the marginal information is a widening gap between official rhetoric and market conviction .
Brent touches $118 as a tanker is hit in Hormuz and Qatar's mediation is billed "last-ditch"
Brent's January contract touched $118 a barrel — a six-month high — after a crude tanker was struck in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed three tankers ablaze on "unauthorized" routes , while Qatari mediators arrived in Tehran on a "last-ditch effort to broker an interim deal" that an Iranian official said would be settled in "the next two days" .