Oil majors are in the spotlight as the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz forces traders to reprice supply risk, sending benchmark crude sharply higher and pushing selected energy stocks toward fresh highs. With tankers avoiding one of the world’s most vital chokepoints and maritime traffic reportedly down about 80%, investors are rotating into
US consumer prices rose moderately in February, suggesting inflation remained contained before a recent surge in energy prices triggered by the conflict involving Iran, according to government data released on Wednesday. The Consumer Price Index increased 0.3% in February after rising 0.2% in January, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said. The reading was
Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company Zoox is preparing to bring its self-driving vehicles to the Uber app in Las Vegas this summer. The partnership allows riders to request Zoox vehicles directly through Uber while the company continues operating its own app. The collaboration reflects growing momentum around autonomous mobility as technology firms and transport platforms compete
The US stocks opened mixed on Wednesday as the Dow Jones edged lower, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted modest gains. The investors continue to weigh the latest developments in the US-Iran war and volatile oil prices while digesting fresh US inflation data. The Dow slipped 82 points, or 0.2%, while the S&P 500
After four years of applications, regulatory back-and-forth, and an extended mobilisation period that has broken UK records for its length, Revolut is finally close to securing a full banking licence in its home market. The Financial Times reported Wednesday that the approval is imminent, a milestone that would end a process that began in 2021
Oracle reported its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, with investors treating the results as an important signal for the artificial intelligence trade. The company has been expanding its cloud infrastructure to support AI computing demand, a strategy that has required heavy capital investment. Markets are watching how the strategy affects financing, shareholder dilution, and Oracle’s ability
DIA, a blockchain oracle network serving over 250 decentralized applications across more than 60 blockchains, has taken aim at a long-standing pricing problem in institutional DeFi. How do you price an asset that doesn’t trade on a market? The Zug-based company launched DIA Value on March 10, a new oracle product that computes intrinsic fair
For a brief stretch earlier this year, the euro traded comfortably above $1.20. Investors were talking up Europe’s defence spending plans, big-ticket infrastructure projects and a more confident post-pandemic recovery. That optimism evaporated almost overnight. The war in the Middle East revived one of the euro’s oldest vulnerabilities: energy dependence. Crude oil surged toward $100
Crude oil has had a dramatic couple of days with prices hitting a more than three-year high on Monday, and plummeting 7% to briefly trade below $90 per barrel on Tuesday. Both the West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude oil plunged as US President Donald Trump said that the war in the Middle East with
Oil prices have been volatile in recent sessions amid escalating conflict between the US and Iran. Tensions reached a fever pitch on March 9th after President Donald Trump issued a stern warning, saying Iran would be hit “20 times harder” if it attempted to block the Strait of Hormuz. However, while the world remains fixated