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Hello, today is Sunday, April 5th, and I'm your host, Kim Khan.

President Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric towards Iran, threatening major

infrastructure strikes if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened under a 48-hour deadline

he set Saturday morning. On Sunday, Trump posted, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge

day, all wrapped in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the effing straight,

you crazy bastards, or you'll be

living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah. The not safe for work message, notable for its

tone, explicit language, and invocation of Allah on Easter, triggered an immediate uproar across

social media. The post followed one a day earlier, in which Trump warned that all hell would

rain down if the straight was not reopened. Later Sunday, in which Trump warned that all hell would rain down if the

strait was not reopened. Later Sunday, in a phone interview with Fox News correspondent,

Trey Yinkst, Trump said negotiations with Iranian officials remain active, but if they don't make a deal

and fast, he is considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil, according to

Yinksta's account. Prediction markets showed indecisive betting following the comments.

On Calci, the odds of traffic in the straight returning to normal by May 15th held around 14%.

Odds of reopening by June 1st rose to 30%, up 7 percentage points.

On Polly Market, the probability of the conflict ending by May 15th ticked up to 28% from 25%, while odds of resolution by June 30th slipped to 55% from 60%.

Meanwhile, OPEC Plus members are preparing to approve a modest increase in May production targets, despite the disruption to flows.

Bloomberg reports that key producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, are expected

to back a plan to raise quotas by roughly 206,000 barrels per day during a virtual meeting.

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