Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. Will Donald Trump strike Iran after the midterm elections? On election day he told the Financial Times the US is "locked and loaded if we need to go, but there may be no reason for it". His self-imposed pause ended with the vote, the New York Times reported joint US and Israeli strike plans for the time after the midterms, and CNN reported that the Pentagon is weighing the GBU-43/B, the "mother of all bombs". For traders, one finding matters first: in this war, gold has mostly fallen on the days oil jumped, so the reflex "war means gold goes up" has not held.