It hardly needs saying, but this has been another bad week, as the US-Israeli aggression against Iran spills out into broader economic damage. The stock markets are leaping on any glimmer of good news, amid strong suggestions of rampant market manipulation from the US political apparatus. With the US now seemingly looking for an off-ramp, perhaps things have a hope of returning to normal vaguely soon. This week, there were just nine positive performances among the Vendors segment (down -0.97%), and only 11 in the Operators segment (down -1.49%). Both performed better than the Indexes segment this week, which slumped by -2.10%.