Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Kermanshah, Iran on January 8, 2026. Kamran | Afp | Getty Images Iran’s supreme leader on Friday lashed out at anti-government protesters, saying they were “vandals” acting on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump by destroying public properties. In a broadcast on national television, reported…
LONDON — European stocks were in negative territory at the opening bell on Thursday, though defense stocks rallied over Donald Trump’s call for U.S. military spending to rise. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was last seen almost 0.2% lower at 9:54 a.m. in London (4:54 a.m. ET). Global markets have been focused on rising geopolitical tensions…
SHENZHEN, CHINA – AUGUST 26: An aerial view of the Shenzhen skyline on August 26, 2020 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by He Shaoping/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Thursday after Wall Street closed lower amid rising geopolitical tensions and comments from U.S….
President Donald Trump’s overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro in oil-rich Venezuela is unlikely to shock energy markets in the near term, analysts told CNBC on Saturday. While the scale of the U.S. attack was unexpected, markets had already priced in a conflict with Venezuela that would disrupt oil exports, said Arne Lohmann Rasmussen, chief analyst…
Oil prices held on to most gains from the previous session in early trading on Thursday as investors awaited U.S.-China trade talks later in the day. Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images U.S. crude oil on Tuesday fell below $55 per barrel, hitting the lowest level since early 2021 as traders factor in a…
U.S. forces abseil onto an oil tanker during a raid described by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi as its seizure by the United States off the coast of Venezuela, December 10, 2025, in a still image from video. U.S. Attorney General | Via Reuters The U.S. is preparing to seize more oil tankers off Venezuela’s…
US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Dec. 10, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images U.S. forces on Wednesday seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the…
This aerial picture shows the oil tanker Boracay anchored off the Atlantic Coast off Saint-Nazaire, western France on October 1st, 2025. French authorities said Wednesday they were investigating the oil tanker Boracay anchored off the Atlantic Coast and suspected of being part of Russia’s clandestine “shadow fleet”. Damien Meyer | Afp | Getty Images Oil…
Oil prices jumped about 3% on Wednesday evening after the Trump administration imposed further sanctions on Russia’s two largest crude companies, citing Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.” Global benchmark Brent rose $1.83, 2.92%, to $64.42 per barrel by 8:18 p.m. ET. U.S crude oil rose…
The India-flagged oil tanker Desh Ujaala is pictured in the Gulf waters near Al-Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT), about 50 kilometres offshore of Iraq’s southern Faw peninsula, on August 5, 2025. Hussein Faleh | AFP | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told him New Delhi will stop…
