The number that moves, and the price that goes the other way

Two things changed enough to warrant a second edition.

The first is a death toll. In Kfar Rumman, in Lebanon’s Nabatieh district, the deaths from the two raids overnight between Sunday and Monday number eleven, with five wounded: this is the most recent figure verifiable at the time of publication, and it rises from what we could write this morning. The most detailed account comes from the Lebanese national agency NNA and reaches us second-hand: we treat it as attribution, not as our own verification, and we state this within the piece.

The second is an assessment of ours that didn’t hold. At 6:30 the Economy and Markets page opened on crude oil retreating and on the cost of money rising. The second movement holds — the US ten-year at 4.818% is the highest since November 2023 —, the first has reversed: 92.06 dollars a barrel, rising, with nearly 18% gained in a month. We state this because it is the kind of error that is only visible if the one who made it declares it.

On Italy we recover a piece of information that was missing yesterday: who called the rail strike beginning tonight and for what reasons. CUB Trasporti, SGB, CAT and the assembly of the FSI Group’s driving and onboard staff, with the announcement published by the union. Yesterday we only had times and guaranteed service bands. In the same space is the closing of the Cernobbio Forum, with a caveat that should be read before the statements: the exchange between the leaders reaches us from a single source, without independent confirmation.

Also updated are Europe — the 200 million announced by the Commission in Nuuk and the provisional result in Saxony-Anhalt, with the AfD at 43.8% and three seats short of an absolute majority —, Eurostat’s upward revision on the second quarter, the hottest Italian summer since 1950 certified by the Cnr, the separation of BepiColombo’s propulsion module, and the billboards of Busan and San Sebastián. There are the Briefs, with the national mourning in Nepal and the closed airports in Indonesia.

The Culture, Health and Sport pages from this morning remain as published and readable at their address: no development during the day warranted a second piece, and rewriting the morning in other words is not an update.

This is today’s final edition. The next one comes out tomorrow at 6:30, with full coverage of all ten sections.