Markets are underestimating the impact of climate volatility across asset classes, commodity strategists warn, as extreme heat grips Europe and meteorologists flag the risk of a powerful El Niño this year. The World Meteorological Organization expects a “strong El Niño event” in the tropical Pacific between July and September this year. El Niño is a…
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The AI trade dominated the market once again this week, upstaging an impressive start to the second-quarter earnings season. Cooler-than-expected June reports on consumer and producer prices offered encouraging signs that inflation continued to ease, while earnings from the nation’s largest banks reinforced the strength of capital markets. At the same time, investors kept one…
A sign at BP Plc petrol station in London, UK, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BP and ConocoPhillips are set to announce billions of dollars of new investments in Iraq on Friday as Washington seeks to bolster the country’s energy sector and reduce the region’s reliance on routes vulnerable…
Consumer prices posted their biggest decline in more than six years during June as a sharp swoon in energy prices provided at least temporary relief from this year’s inflation surge, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The consumer price index, a broad measure of costs for goods and services across the U.S. economy, was…
NEW DELHI, INDIA – JULY 9: People are seen crossing a waterlogged road after the heavy rainfall at Gazipur Sabzi Mandi on July 9, 2026 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Hindustan Times | Hindustan Times | Getty Images India’s consumer price inflation rose to 4.38% in June,…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) talks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Following a heated exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Graham told reporters that Zelensky should resign. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News |…
President Donald Trump ordered renewed airstrikes against Iran on Saturday after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a commercial ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said in a statement. The M/V GFS Galaxy, a container ship sailing under the flag of Cyprus, is unable to continue its journey after the Iranian attack…
Wall Street’s record-setting start to the week ran into two familiar sources of volatility: the artificial intelligence trade and oil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday closed above 53,000 for the first time ever before renewed U.S.-Iran tensions erased those gains, leaving the blue-chip index down 0.5% for the week. Chip stocks — once…
Iran wants to shut down a U.S. Navy-protected shipping lane through Oman’s waters that has allowed oil and gas tankers in the Persian Gulf to exit the Strait of Hormuz without seeking Tehran’s permission. The Islamic Republic tried to impose its control over Hormuz this week by attacking three tankers navigating the strait through the…
