Elon Musk’s X will ban users from making money on the platform if they repeatedly post unlabelled AI-generated war videos, after social media feeds were flooded with fake battle scenes from the Iran conflict.
The social media platform, which has…

Elon Musk’s X will ban users from making money on the platform if they repeatedly post unlabelled AI-generated war videos, after social media feeds were flooded with fake battle scenes from the Iran conflict.
The social media platform, which has…

The outbreak of war in the Middle East has upended some of the most popular trades of 2026 so far, catching global investors off guard in their widespread bets against the US dollar and in favour of stock markets outside America.
As investors…

US stocks opened green on Wednesday following stronger-than-expected private payrolls data and a report that Iran has indirectly approached the US to discuss terms for ending the escalating conflict.
The tech-exposed Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC)…

By Jamie Chisholm and Joseph Adinolfi
Goldman Sachs warns cost of crude oil could hit $100 a barrel
Foreign workers watch a plume of black smoke ascend following an explosion in the Fujairah industrial zone of the U.A.E. on…

In separate ad hoc meetings of the Gas Coordination Group and the Oil Coordination Group held this morning, the Commission and EU countries took stock of the situation concerning the EU’s gas and oil security of supply following…

“There is no need to panic-buy petrol.”
Those words from the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, on Wednesday were a bid to reassure Australians that the US-Israeli war on Iran did not mean our nation was about to run out of fuel.
There has been some…

Ministry of Finance director general Ilan Rom said the cost of shutting down the economy within the framework of the current restrictions is roughly NIS 9.5 billion per week.
About a week before the U.S.-Israeli strike in Iran, Iranian media published a colorful map of the United Arab Emirates, marking the locations of five Israeli companies that, according to Tehran, operate in the Abu Dhabi area: Elbit Systems,…

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