Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Task for the week: limit the fallout from biggest oil shock in decades UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is making the trip to Washington DC for the IMF/World Bank spring meeting. Before crossing the Atlantic, Reeves warned that families and businesses across Britain are bearing the cost of instability “they did not cause”, adding: “The Iran con...
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Task for the week: limit the fallout from biggest oil shock in decades UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is making the trip to Washington DC for the IMF/World Bank spring meeting. Before crossing the Atlantic, Reeves warned that families and businesses across Britain are bearing the cost of instability “they did not cause”, adding: “The Iran conflict must be a line in the sand on how we deal with global crisis and instability. “I will go to America with a clear message: global leaders must take co-ordinated economic action and supercharge the path to energy security to protect ourselves in the future.” President Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz got underway yesterday, applying to all vessels making their way to or from Iranian ports. Is this a negotiating gambit, designed to choke off Iranian oil revenues, and force Iran back to the table? Almost certainly, it is, with it being just the latest instalment of the ‘escalate to de-escalate’ strategy that markets have come to be so familiar with over the last 15 months or so. That this latest manoeuvre is being viewed through this lens helps explain the relatively swift way in which markets were able to shrug off the weekend’s developments. Not only did stocks pare opening declines, allowing the S&P future to trade above its pre-conflict close and to turn positive on the year once more, but haven demand for the greenback evaporated as the day wore on, and Govvies rebounded to end proceedings a rounding error away from the unchanged mark. Continue reading...
Broadcom recently announced that it has reached an expanded cooperation agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc. Both parties will jointly deploy advanced technologies to support the gigawatt-level power requirements of Meta's custom silicon chip Mtia. Bitget
Broadcom recently announced that it has reached an expanded cooperation agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc. Both parties will jointly deploy advanced technologies to support the gigawatt-level power requirements of Meta's custom silicon chip Mtia. Bitget