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Anthropic files for IPO, with revenue surging and potential $2 trillion valuation
Anthropic is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the artificial intelligence company at more than $2 trillion, even as it reported a net loss of nearly $42 billion in 2025 and faces massive future …
Europe’s Natural Gas Prices Soar to 4-Year High as Winter Looms
Europe’s benchmark natural gas price jumped by 2% at opening in Amsterdam on Monday, extending the 7% weekly gain from last week, as concerns mount that the gas withdrawal season has started amid no signs that Qatar’s L…
Gold Hasn’t Forgotten the Rules - The Market Changed the Game
Gold has spent the past several weeks doing something that makes macro traders uncomfortable: the variables that normally underpin the bull case have been moving broadly in its favour, while the price itself has been he…
Gold Risks Deeper Losses as Iran War Fuels Energy Inflation Fears
For months, gold looked untouchable — the asset you bought almost on autopilot if you believed the world was quietly debasing its money and sleepwalking into another inflation wave. The metal was riding structural deman…
Gold Futures Face Heavy Weekly Losses as Iran War and Fed Decision Loom
(Kitco News) – Gold prices clung for dear life to the $5,000 per ounce support level as long as they could this week, but a series of pessimistic central bank statements and a discouraging Iran war outlook proved too mu…
Wells Fargo Names Top Pick Ahead of Q3 Earnings
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Buy pullback in this chip stock, Mizuho says
Morgan Stanley said the recent sell-off in semiconductor stocks has created an attractive opportunity for investors, naming Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) and Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) as its top picks in AI compute while identifying m…
European Natural Gas Prices Surge to Highest Level Since 2022
On Tuesday, wholesale natural gas futures in Europe and Britain broke through multi-year resistance thresholds, hitting their loftiest marks since 2022. The surge came as unexpected Norwegian supply disruptions and ongo…
UBS sees dip buyers stepping in to support gold at this level
As of September 2026, major bank gold price forecasts for year-end 2026 have converged lower. J.P. Morgan is at $4,500. Wells Fargo is at $4,900-$5,100. Goldman Sachs is at $4,900, and UBS is at $5,500. Bank of America’…
Spot gold hits three-month low amid risk-off moves, climb in oil prices
August 6, 2026, 3:59 AM EDT. The Chinese Academy of Sciences achieved a 3.42% conversion efficiency in laser-produced plasma (LPP) EUV lithography, closing in on ASML’s 5.5% commercial benchmark. Although current power …
Oil Signals Geopolitical Risk Is Back on the Radar
August 3, 2026, 3:54 AM EDT. Shares of firearm manufacturers are notably cyclical among industrials, impacted by both unit shipments and average selling price. Leading firms in the space include Sturm, Ruger & Co. (RGR)…
Diesel Shortages Push Washington Toward Emergency Refinery Measures
The war in Iran and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have plunged global energy markets into deep uncertainty, disrupting critical oil and gas flows and accelerating structural shifts in how governments and…
Oil Shipping Costs Add a New Upside Risk to Brent Prices
The impact of the Middle East conflict on energy markets is spreading from oil prices themselves to shipping costs. A new report from Goldman Sachs says average global seaborne crude shipping costs have soared from $3 a…
Gold Holds at a Crossroads Ahead of Fed Decision and Iran Developments
[SINGAPORE] Gold held a decline ahead of a finely-balanced interest rate decision by the US Federal Reserve due later on Wednesday (Jul 29), while tensions persisted in the Middle East.
Asian LNG Prices Surge Past $30 as Middle East Shipping Risks Escalate
Structural redesign of the energy system is gaining urgency to shield Asian countries against recurring oil and gas trade turmoil. Steering countries off the fossil path and back towards clean energy will ensure countri…
Oil holds near five-month high as Hormuz attacks threaten supply recovery
When the US-Iran war began at the end of February, it unleashed an energy crisis on the world and one not seen in recent years. Oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, de facto controlled by Iran, came to a standsti…
Central Banks Are Buying Gold - So Why Is the Yellow Metal Still Under Pressure?
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Will Oil Prices Decline as Middle East Supply Recovers?
Brent crude settled at $109.86 per barrel on Friday, October 16, after touching $110 intraday—the highest since May—while WTI closed at $101.41. The move capped a week of gains driven by persistent supply risks from the…
Chip index SOX posts longest losing streak since 2008 as AI worries deepen
The Nasdaq Composite Index (IXIC) S&P 500 Index (SPX) are on the rise, with the latter up triple digits as investors digest July's consumer price index (CPI) data, which came in line with expectations. It's now widely e…
The Trouble With Safe Assets
I’m spending a lot of time thinking about high interest rates, both for obvious reasons and because I’m reconsidering some of my own long-held views. So I thought I’d have a long talk with someone who has really studied…
Gold prices slip for the week as oil gains offset weaker dollar, U.S. bond rally
Gold (XAU/USD) price retreats about 0.10%, trading at $4,163 on Friday, poised for a weekly loss as traders assess recent US inflation data, which, although hotter than foreseen, led investors to trim their hawkish bets…
Global Fuel Oil Shortage Deepens as Middle East and Russia Supplies Collapse
The global energy market is grappling with an unprecedented diesel supply crisis. In the United States, retail diesel prices have historically breached $6 per gallon—nearly double the $3.50 level at the start of the yea…
Oil Prices Hold Firm Despite Persian Gulf Supply Growing
On paper, Iran does not have a jobs problem. A 7.5 percent unemployment rate is the sort of figure many governments would happily defend. But fewer than four in ten working-age Iranians are actually employed.