Market News

A sense of unease is gripping India’s bond traders as they fear the central bank’s push to drain excess cash from the financial system, just as inflation picks up and a global debt selloff intensifies, will spark an extended slump.

Oil dropped as a rally driven by supply disruptions left gains looking overdone, and a US industry report pointed to a rise in stockpiles. The situation in the Middle East remains on an escalatory path, with threats to passage through the Red Sea and Hormuz, alongside pipeline damage in Saudi Arabia

Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all three of its members appear to believe they possess something that should give them that privilege: Saud

An essay from Anthropic PBC’s Dario Amodei saying artificial intelligence companies must “pace the frontier” has got the world talking about a slowdown in their most cutting-edge research. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk publicly agreed with the post. But don’t expect their companies to s

How badly are things going for Republicans in what for more than a decade has been the reliably red state of Ohio? Just ask Jon Husted.

Politics seems to be messing with the US Treasury secretary’s head

Labour pledge to keep state pension out of tax puts pressure on chancellor to raise allowance or find workaround

Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage Reuters

Yemen conflict displaces over 100,000 people, UN says Reuters

Egypt's Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince stress need for security of Red Sea navigation Reuters