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2026-04-21 22:35:10 CEST

Oil prices are still up over 3% for the day, despite Trump extending ceasefire with Iran.

2026-04-16 13:00:23 CEST

International Energy Agency chief says that Europe has 'maybe six weeks' of jet fuel left, says current shock is 'the largest energy crisis we have ever faced', according to AP report.

2026-04-15 22:10:16 CEST

S&P 500 closes at record high of 7,019
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2026-04-14 03:20:19 CEST

Saudi Arabia is 'pressing' the US to 'drop its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and return to the negotiating table', according to Wall Street Journal report.
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2026-04-12 22:25:10 CEST

Viktor Orban, who has served as PM for 16 years, has conceded defeat in Hungary's election.
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2026-04-11 02:56:10 CEST

Kamala Harris says she is 'thinking about' running for US president in 2028.
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2026-04-10 21:50:15 CEST

BREAKING: Trump says that US warships are being reloaded with the 'best ammunition' to resume strikes on Iran if peace talks fail, according to NY Post report.
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2026-04-10 04:00:23 CEST

BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called Wall Street leaders to an 'urgent meeting' on concerns that the latest AI model from Anthropic will 'usher in an era of greater cyber risk', according to Bloomberg report.
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2026-04-09 23:20:16 CEST

BREAKING: Trump says Iran 'better stop' charging fees to tankers
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2026-04-03 05:10:12 CEST

BREAKING: Trump post about attacking Iranian infrastructure
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2026-04-03 03:40:14 CEST

BREAKING: CNN reports that US intelligence assesses Iran 'maintains significant missile launching capability' and that 'roughly 50% of the country’s drone capabilities' still exist

2026-04-02 04:55:11 CEST

Post from the US Secretary of War
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2026-03-30 02:45:16 CEST

BREAKING: Japan's Nikkei 225 plunges by over 5%

2026-03-30 02:45:14 CEST

BREAKING: Trump says he believes we 'have had regime change' in Iran

2026-03-28 11:15:20 CET

EUROPE: 12 tonnes of KitKat and the truck transporting them were stolen while in transit from central Italy on the way to Poland.
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2026-03-27 21:05:13 CET

BREAKING: US share market has over $1 trillion in market value wiped out today

2026-03-26 12:00:24 CET

BREAKING: Trump says Iranian negotiators are 'begging' for a deal
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2026-03-26 05:55:11 CET

BREAKING: Israel detects new Iranian ballistic missile attack

2026-03-25 03:15:13 CET

BREAKING: Iran has demanded closure of US bases in the Gulf, end of all sanctions, end of Israeli campaign against Hezbollah and a framework that would allow it to collect fees from ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, as part of a response to Trump proposal, according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-03-24 20:15:21 CET

BREAKING: The US is set to deploy a 'brigade combat team from the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran', according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-03-22 02:25:09 CET

BREAKING: Iranian military says it will strike energy infrastructure and desalination plants in the region if the US targets its power plants

2026-03-22 01:25:10 CET

BREAKING: Bitcoin falls sharply after Trump's threats to 'obliterate' Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not open within 48 hours

2026-03-20 11:25:11 CET

BREAKING: Trump administration is considering plans to 'occupy or blockade Iran's Kharg Island', which processes 90% of Iranian oil exports, according to Axios report.

2026-03-19 20:35:09 CET

BREAKING: Iran's strike on Qatar gas facility will take up to 5 years of repairs and cut production by 17%

2026-03-19 06:05:18 CET

BREAKING: Oil refinery in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh was attacked by Iranian ballistic missiles, according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-03-10 11:35:24 CET

BREAKING: Israel is conducting a new wave of strikes against targets in Iran

2026-03-10 09:45:20 CET

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE and Kuwait have lowered their collective oil output by 6.7 million barrels a day, equivalent to 6% of global supply, according to Bloomberg report.

2026-03-10 09:35:21 CET

BREAKING: Iran's speaker of parliament says the country does not seek a ceasefire

2026-03-10 08:45:28 CET

BREAKING: Iran's foreign minister calls the US-Israeli war a 'failure'

2026-03-10 06:25:17 CET

BREAKING: FAA issues ground stop for all JetBlue flights

2026-03-10 06:05:16 CET

BREAKING: Iranian foreign minister says talks with the US are no longer on the agenda

2026-03-10 05:35:17 CET

BREAKING: UAE issues missile alert, says its air defenses are engaging an Iranian attack.

2026-03-10 05:25:25 CET

BREAKING: Sirens sound in Bahrain

2026-03-10 04:45:27 CET

BREAKING: Syrian government says that Hezbollah has shelled positions near Damascus

2026-03-10 04:05:25 CET

BREAKING: China's exports have surged by 21.8% year-on-year in February, well above estimates.

2026-03-10 04:05:24 CET

JUST IN: Bitcoin hits $70,000

2026-03-10 03:25:16 CET

BREAKING: Some of President Trump's advisers have 'privately urged him to look for an exit plan' from the Iran war 'amid spiking oil prices and concerns that a lengthy conflict could spark political backlash', according to Wall Street Journal report.

2026-03-10 03:15:29 CET

🇺🇸 Chances of the Democrats sweeping the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives in 2028 have risen to a new high of 40%, according to @Kalshi prediction market.
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2026-03-10 02:55:33 CET

Iran is 'wagering' it can outlast the US and Israel by 'grinding the war into a brutal contest of endurance', namely by cutting energy routes and 'jolting global markets hard enough to force Washington to blink first', according to Reuters report.
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2026-03-10 02:55:29 CET

Crude oil price 24 hours ago: $117 Now: $85

2026-03-10 02:55:28 CET

BREAKING: Trump response to Iranian threats over the Strait of Hormuz
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2026-03-10 01:25:29 CET

BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards say, in response to Trump, that they will be the ones who 'determine the end of the war'.

2026-03-10 01:25:27 CET

BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten that they will 'not allow a single liter of oil to be exported from the region' if US and Israeli strikes continue

2026-03-10 01:25:25 CET

BREAKING: Iran is planning to impose duties on tankers and ships in the Gulf, according to CNN report.

2026-03-10 00:25:17 CET

Israeli military says that over 1,900 Iranian military personnel have been killed in the war so far.

2026-03-09 23:00:38 CET

BREAKING: Israeli military says an additional wave of missiles have been launched from Iran

2026-03-09 22:55:21 CET

BREAKING: Israel's finance minister Smotrich says his son has been wounded in attack near border with Lebanon

2026-03-09 22:55:19 CET

US military says it has struck 5,000 targets in Iran since the war began.

2026-03-09 22:45:19 CET

BREAKING: Iranian Revolutionary Guards it will open Strait of Hormuz for Arab and European countries that expel US and Israeli ambassadors

2026-03-09 22:15:27 CET

BREAKING: Trump says regarding Iran war, 'we have already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough'

2026-03-09 22:15:25 CET

BREAKING: Trump says the US has got rid of 80% of Iran's missile sites

2026-03-09 22:15:23 CET

BREAKING: Trump says 'we are determined to achieve total victory' over Iran

2026-03-09 22:05:23 CET

BREAKING: Trump says US has destroyed 46 Iranian navy vessels

2026-03-09 21:55:25 CET

BREAKING: Trump says Iran war will be a 'short-term excursion'

2026-03-09 21:55:24 CET

BREAKING: Australia is planning to provide the UAE with medium range air-to-air missiles

2026-03-09 21:55:22 CET

BREAKING: Crude oil price is down 8%, now trading at $83.

2026-03-09 21:55:20 CET

BREAKING: Trump asked 25 Republican donors whether they preferred he back JD Vance or Marco Rubio for the 2028 nomination, whereby 'attendees overwhelmingly indicated Secretary of State Marco Rubio through their cheering', according to NBC News report.
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2026-03-09 21:45:19 CET

BREAKING: Sirens sound in Kuwait

2026-03-09 20:45:30 CET

BREAKING: Israeli military says new wave of missiles have been launched from Iran

2026-03-09 20:45:28 CET

Crude oil price 17 hours ago: $117 Now: $84

2026-03-09 20:35:26 CET

BREAKING: US share markets turn positive after Trump says that the Iran war is 'very complete'

2026-03-09 20:35:25 CET

BREAKING: Trump says Iran has 'shot everything they have to shoot'

2026-03-09 20:35:23 CET

BREAKING: Trump is considering taking over Strait of Hormuz, according to CBS News report.

2026-03-09 20:35:21 CET

Crude oil price 17 hours ago: $117 Now: $89

2026-03-09 20:35:19 CET

BREAKING: Crude oil falls to $90, turning negative in extraordinary day on energy markets, where prices had earlier risen by 30%.

2026-03-09 20:35:18 CET

BREAKING: EU official says a prolonged war in the Middle East could cause a 'substantial stagflationary shock on the global and European economy'

2026-03-09 20:35:16 CET

BREAKING: Trump tells CBS that the war is 'very complete' and the US is 'very far' ahead of schedule, as Iran now has 'no navy, no communications and no air force'.

2026-03-09 20:25:18 CET

Lebanon's government says that 450,000 people are now displaced due to the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

2026-03-09 20:25:16 CET

BREAKING: Iraq's PM has congratulated Iran's new Supreme Leader

2026-03-09 19:45:27 CET

BREAKING: US crude oil prices settle at $94.7, up 4.2%.

2026-03-09 19:35:21 CET

Iran's new Supreme Leader is a 'marked man' and is not regarded as someone the US can do business with, according to Wall Street Journal report.
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2026-03-09 19:35:17 CET

Crude oil price 16 hours ago: $117 Now: $92

2026-03-09 19:15:31 CET

BREAKING: Sultan of Oman has congratulated Iran's new Supreme Leader

2026-03-09 19:15:29 CET

OIL VOLATILITY - Crude oil surged by 30% and hit $117 - Reversed gains on reports of G7 countries considering release of emergency reserves, with price falling to $98. - Rose again to $106 - Steady declines since then, now down to $93.

2026-03-09 19:15:28 CET

BREAKING: Anthropic has sued the Pentagon after being declared a 'supply chain risk', according to FT.

2026-03-09 18:55:19 CET

Iran says that the United States wants to 'partition the country and take the oil'.

2026-03-09 18:55:17 CET

BREAKING: Turkey summons Iran's ambassador over missile being fired at Turkish territory

2026-03-09 18:45:18 CET

Trump says it is 'too soon' to talk about seizing Iran's oil, according to NBC report.

2026-03-09 18:25:19 CET

White House says that Trump is considering 'all credible options' when it comes to oil prices.

2026-03-09 18:25:17 CET

BREAKING: France's Macron says Iran war looks set to last for 'perhaps several weeks'

2026-03-09 18:25:16 CET

BREAKING: Crude oil prices now at $95, up just 5% for the day, and down from daily peak of $117.

2026-03-09 11:25:29 CET

EU foreign policy chief Kallas says that the Iranian regime is 'weaker' but that there is 'no clear trajectory to end the war'.

2026-03-09 11:25:27 CET

OIL VOLATILITY - Crude oil surged by 30% and hit $117 - Reversed gains on reports of G7 countries considering release of emergency reserves, with price falling to $98. - Now rising again and trading at $102
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2026-03-09 11:05:19 CET

BREAKING: Putin has congratulated Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei

2026-03-09 11:05:17 CET

One person has been killed in central Israel due to missile attack, raising its death toll since the war started to 11.

2026-03-09 10:55:18 CET

BREAKING: Crude oil price falls back under $100

2026-03-09 10:55:16 CET

BREAKING: European natural gas prices surge by 13%, now trading at $60.

2026-03-09 08:55:26 CET

WTI crude oil price One month ago: $63 Now: $101

2026-03-09 07:35:18 CET

BREAKING: Japan has directed preparation for possible release of strategic oil reserves, according to Nikkei report.

2026-03-09 07:35:17 CET

BREAKING: Bahrain's oil company declares force majeure after Iranian attack on its only refinery ablaze, according to Associated Press report.

2026-03-09 07:15:20 CET

BREAKING: Crude oil prices fall by $17 in two hours on reports of G7 countries considering releasing petroleum reserves

2026-03-09 06:55:25 CET

BREAKING: Financial Times reports that G7 finance ministers will 'discuss a possible joint release of petroleum from reserves'

2026-03-09 05:35:26 CET

BREAKING: Bahrain's biggest oil refinery hit by Iranian strikes earlier today

2026-03-09 05:00:35 CET

SHARE MARKETS TODAY South Korea: -7.7% Japan: -6.4% Vietnam: -6.9% Philippines: -5.3% Taiwan: -5.1% Indonesia: -3.5% Australia: -3.4% India: -3% Singapore: -2.8% Hong Kong: -2.5% Malaysia: -2.2% China: -1.1%

2026-03-09 03:55:26 CET

ENERGY CRISIS - SO FAR TODAY - Crude oil price up 30% - Brent crude up 26% - Heating oil up 22% - Gasoline prices up 14% - Japan's Nikkei 225 down around 7% - South Korea's KOSPI is down 8% - Australia's ASX 200 is down over 4% - Indonesia's JCI down 4%, Singapore's STI down over 3%. - US stock market futures point to big declines

2026-03-09 03:45:24 CET

BREAKING: This is the 'most severe energy crisis since the 1970s', according to the Wall Street Journal.

2026-03-09 03:45:22 CET

BREAKING: Heating oil price is now up 22%

2026-03-09 03:45:21 CET

BREAKING: WTI crude oil now up 30% today

2026-03-09 03:30:24 CET

BREAKING: Trump says he is 'not happy' over Mojtaba Khamenei being chosen as new Supreme Leader of Iran

2026-03-09 03:15:23 CET

🇨🇳 China reports annual inflation rate of 1.3% in February, the highest in over three years.