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After two days of diplomacy-driven swings, crude is rising again with Gulf shipping below 60 percent of capacity and a Qatar-brokered draft agreement yet to win backing in Washington or Tehran.
Nov 6, 2026
Crude posted its biggest drop since May on bets that a Democratic Congress shortens the Iran conflict, while diesel stockpiles fell below 100 million barrels for the first time since 2003.
Nov 4, 2026
Oil had its biggest one-day fall since July on hopes of a US-Iran deal, then edged higher in Asia after officials described limited defensive strikes near the Strait of Hormuz.
Nov 3, 2026
Thursday's bounce recovered part of Wednesday's near 9 percent plunge, with the IRGC saying two tankers and a tugboat caught fire and UKMTO logging a projectile strike off Qatar.
Nov 5, 2026
Brent's renewed jump toward $100 reflects Middle East shipping danger, while IEA and EIA forecasts point to demand destruction and lower prices if supply routes normalize.
Jul 25, 2026
Brent settled at $104.77 and WTI at $96.46 on Monday after Tehran said its supreme leader had authorised negotiations and the US said no decision on new strikes had been taken.
Nov 2, 2026
Brent settled at $115.32 after the Houthis claimed a missile hit on Saudi Arabia's biggest refinery, which Riyadh has not confirmed, while US crude stocks fell and gasoline stayed tight.
Oct 28, 2026
Early in the conflict the projections ran to 150 dollar oil and contracting Gulf economies. Halfway through August the numbers are less dramatic and more interesting than either the panic or the relief.
Aug 16, 2026
Oil, not chips, drove Friday's selloff: the Dow fell 1.2 percent and most sectors slid while the Nasdaq barely moved. Energy shares hit a record ahead of a Fed meeting and big-tech earnings.
Oct 24, 2026
Saudi Arabia, Russia and five other members agreed on Sunday to leave production unchanged for November and to meet again on 1 November, two days after the G7 announced its own emergency oil release.
Oct 4, 2026
After a Friday slide led by the Dow, investors face a Fed meeting priced for a hold, three Big Tech reports, GDP and PCE data, and central bank decisions in Frankfurt and Tokyo.
Oct 26, 2026
Brent topped 92 dollars on Tuesday, up from just over 88 at Monday's close. A tanker was hit crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Monday by three unknown projectiles, and transits through the channel fell to 107 in the week to 30 August from 121.
Sep 1, 2026
Long-dated US borrowing costs reached a 22-year high on Thursday, driven by surging energy prices, strong business activity data and a national debt above 40 trillion dollars, even as Brent crude eased off its intraday peak on Hormuz reopening reports.
Sep 25, 2026
Houthi claims against two Saudi tankers have exposed the weakness in plans to bypass Hormuz, sending Brent higher as two vital shipping routes face risk.
Jul 23, 2026
A potential war is the wrong frame. Fighting began on 28 February and the strait closed on 4 March. The economic damage is real and measurable, and it is far smaller than the forecasts issued in the first month, for reasons worth understanding.
Aug 22, 2026
Brent settled at 101.20, an eleven-day low, as Trump said he would meet Pezeshkian in New York and Saudi crude found its way through Hormuz at 2.9 million barrels a day. The S&P 500 rose 1.5 per cent, Meta 11.4, and the ten-year slipped back under five.
Sep 22, 2026
Day 187 brought more reporting on efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The transit count on the latest published day was six, against a pre-war baseline of about 85 a day, and the market puts one percent odds on normal traffic by 15 September.
Sep 4, 2026
A Truth Social post promises a pause until 3 November, but the blockade stays, Tehran calls the talks pointless and tankers are being hit outside the strait. Brent held above $100.
Oct 9, 2026
The S&P 500 rose 1.2 percent and the Nasdaq gained 2.1 percent as chipmakers and software stocks led gains, while Brent crude slipped below $98 a barrel and the 10-year yield swung between 4.95 and 5.20 percent.
Sep 27, 2026
Debris from an intercepted drone killed two foreign workers at Aramco's Shaybah field on Wednesday, hours before a fatal strike on Dammam's airport and a State Department departure order.
Oct 22, 2026
The Nasdaq gained 1.2 percent and the S&P 500 0.6 percent on Tuesday while the Dow barely moved, with oil easing, confidence jumping and the Fed's decision due on Wednesday.
Oct 28, 2026
CENTCOM named the five crude carriers it disabled after two missile attacks on one of its warships. Iran answered at Al-Azraq, where Jordan says it intercepted eighteen of twenty missiles, and claimed strikes on ten ships. Brent closed at 101 dollars.
Sep 10, 2026
A New York Times report on Wednesday says Washington and Israel have prepared a short, intense campaign against Iran for after 3 November, and oil climbed to its highest since May.
Oct 23, 2026
The G7 pledged to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months and not to ban fuel exports, as diesel hits record prices during the Iran war.
Oct 2, 2026
The Nasdaq added 0.82 percent and the S&P 500 0.70 percent after Friday's oil-led slide, while Tesla rose, Meta fell on its financing plan and traders sized up a Fed meeting and Big Tech earnings.
Oct 27, 2026
Wall Street fell for a third day as Brent settled at 101 dollars and the ten-year yield touched its highest since 2023. Futures price a better than even chance of a quarter-point rise on 16 September. What the buyback means, and what to watch.
Sep 10, 2026
The Fed decides Wednesday with a rise at ninety per cent, the Bank of Japan is expected to follow on Friday, German Bunds are at a 2009 high and gold sits near 4,300. Nvidia lost two per cent after Anthropic and OpenAI asked the industry to slow down.
Sep 15, 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix both lost more than 11% in Seoul after Wall Street's worst day since July, and analysts and the IMF warned that Asia is heavily exposed to the AI boom.
Oct 15, 2026
With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.
Sep 17, 2026
The Dow gained about 196 points on a day when the bond market was shut for the holiday, while semiconductors fell and Brent topped $106 after the Riyadh airport strikes.
Oct 13, 2026
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz and hit every GCC state should have broken the region's economics. Reserves and diversification kept it standing.
Jul 16, 2026
The World Bank's June index showed steep declines in energy, fertilizer and precious metals. Its August 4 update will reveal whether that was a turning point or a pause.
Aug 2, 2026
The Dow and S&P 500 slipped 0.7 and 0.8 per cent and the Nasdaq fell 1.1 on Wednesday as the ten-year yield climbed to about 5.11 per cent. Nvidia dropped 1.5, Broadcom 2.6 and Micron 2.2 as investors took profit after the prior week's chip rally.
Sep 24, 2026
Monday's split tape saw the Nasdaq lose 1.1 percent on AI-spending doubts and a $115 billion chip deal, while airlines, cruise lines and the Dow rose on a 7 percent drop in oil.
Nov 2, 2026
Bitcoin failed to hold $84,000 and dropped toward $81,000 as AI and oil worries hit risk assets, and SoSoValue data show the biggest one-day ETF outflow since June.
Oct 23, 2026
A thin-market selloff took bitcoin to $79,146, its weakest level in more than a month, and it now heads into the Fed meeting under its 50-day average with traders eyeing $78,000.
Oct 26, 2026
Both metals gave back part of Monday's rebound in Asian trade, with a strong ISM print, a 4.90% ten-year yield and the midterm vote keeping buyers on the sidelines before Friday's payrolls.
Nov 3, 2026
After a Camp David meeting, the Pentagon chief said Iran has 'literally gotten nothing through' the strait. Shipping data tell a messier story, and Tehran says talks should rest on lifting sanctions, not new pressure.
Oct 5, 2026
Two bond auctions in two days drew buyers at levels not seen for decades, yet the Fed's Christopher Waller says more rate rises are likely and oil kept the inflation worry alive.
Oct 9, 2026
Consumer prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier, led by gasoline, and Wall Street sold chip and AI names hard while traders raised bets on another Fed rate increase.
Oct 15, 2026
A report that OpenAI's run-rate sales are about $20 billion below the figure investors had been quoting pulled chip and cloud stocks down, while bond yields and oil stayed high.
Oct 9, 2026
Washington keeps both a deal and renewed strikes open while Tehran repeats its demands, and in the Gulf debris from intercepted missiles injured two people in southern Saudi Arabia.
Oct 26, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
Bitcoin rose 5.5 percent to 81,491 dollars on Thursday after a Federal Reserve governor signalled a hold, with the total crypto market up 4.7 percent to 2.82 trillion. The rally came from lower rate expectations while oil sat near 96 dollars.
Sep 4, 2026
The long bond closed at 5.27 per cent on 1 and 2 September and has not been below five since July. The two-year has climbed from 4.17 to 4.39 in a week. What the Federal Reserve's own data shows, and why the shape of the move matters more than the level.
Sep 8, 2026
Prices rose 0.4 per cent in August and 3.4 per cent over the year. Petrol is up 27 per cent, airfares 23. Core came in a tenth hotter than forecast, and futures moved from a coin toss to nine in ten for a quarter-point rise on 16 September. Stocks rose anyway.
Sep 12, 2026
