Category: 6. Business

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Investors have trimmed bets on the number of interest rate cuts this year as surging petrol prices and a softening jobs…

Global oil prices could breach the $100 (£74) a barrel mark within days, and reach $150 a barrel by the end of the month, without a solution ​to the severe disruption in crude flows through the strait ‌of Hormuz, Goldman Sachs has warned.

Oil…

The S&P 500’s tech sector has had a bumpy start to 2026 as investors shift towards materials and energy. But the big question is whether everyone’s overreacting to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).

A lot of investors are trying…

An inflation shock triggered by the US-Israel attack on Iran could wreck a fragile global economic recovery that had been expected to gain momentum this year.

With oil and gas prices spiking, despite a pledge from Donald Trump to protect tankers…

Korea’s major oil refiners are moving to cut…

Abu Dhabi state-owned Adnoc said its operations continue despite the escalating regional conflict and disruption to tanker movements through the strait of Hormuz, with the company adjusting flows and deliveries to maintain supplies to global…

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Kuwait’s state-owned oil firm KPC has started to reduce crude output and refinery runs after oil exports were effectively halted by the war in the Middle East, the company said.

Tanker traffic through the strait…