Welcome to the Brussels Edition. I’m Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg’s Brussels bureau chief, bringing you the latest from the EU each weekday. Make sure you’re signed up . Europe is not planning to step in and intervene in energy markets at this juncture. That’s the message from EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen in an interview with Bloomberg today, echoing the views of the EU’s executive body since ...
Welcome to the Brussels Edition. I’m Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg’s Brussels bureau chief, bringing you the latest from the EU each weekday. Make sure you’re signed up . Europe is not planning to step in and intervene in energy markets at this juncture. That’s the message from EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen in an interview with Bloomberg today, echoing the views of the EU’s executive body since the outbreak of war in the Middle East last weekend. “We are not close to the level of crisis that we had in 2022,” Jorgensen said, referring to the turmoil that hit Europe in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Even if the EU is impacted by volatility on global markets, diversification “puts us in better place” he added, noting that the bloc is mostly dependent on Norway and the US, rather than the Gulf for energy imports. The EU’s energy chief was speaking following a meeting on energy prices, which was convened earlier today by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. As Bloomberg previously reported, the EU’s executive arm told a specially-convened Energy Union Task Force yesterday that there was no justification to release strategic oil stocks, noting that member states hold reserves covering 90 days of consumption. Despite the call for calm, the possibility of spiking energy costs are spooking consumers and businesses across the bloc. The price of Brent crude jumped today as Qatar signaled it would not resume production unless there is a complete cessation of hostilities. Shipping giants such as Maersk are suspending container services as the impact of the war jolts the global trading system. Even before the outbreak of war in Iran, Europe’s high cost of energy had forced itself up the political agenda. Seen as one of the main drags on competitiveness, the issue is set to be discussed at this month’s EU leaders’ summit. Von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa will hold a video call with Gulf leaders on Monday. Jorgensen a...
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When it comes to dividend stocks, it’s often the best policy to just buy them and forget about them. It’s amazing how successful a set-it-and-forget-it strategy can be, especially if your broker allows you to automatically reinvest your dividend distributions. If you choose the right dividend-yielding stocks and leave them alone for years, you could ... Set It and Forget It: The Dividend Stocks Wo...
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Keith Tonkin has flown a Boeing 747 towards airspace where missiles were being fired, and knows the pressure pilots have been under this week. “You’re stuck in that airplane until you land safely,” the veteran Australian pilot says. Amid the expanding war in Iran – with missiles piercing the skies over the Middle East – pilots’ regimented routes have been thrown into chaos. They’ve been forced to ...
Keith Tonkin has flown a Boeing 747 towards airspace where missiles were being fired, and knows the pressure pilots have been under this week. “You’re stuck in that airplane until you land safely,” the veteran Australian pilot says. Amid the expanding war in Iran – with missiles piercing the skies over the Middle East – pilots’ regimented routes have been thrown into chaos. They’ve been forced to turn planes around mid-flight or squeeze into narrowing air corridors, with hundreds of lives in their hands. “They’ll be seeing more aeroplanes around them than they would have experienced in the past,” Tonkin says of the commercial pilots affected by conflict. Sign up: AU Breaking News email “When the airspace is congested and you’ve got less room to manoeuvre. If something goes wrong, you have fewer options.” Airspace was closed on Saturday, after the US and Israel launched airstrikes and Iran retaliated with a barrages of missiles across the Middle East. Airborne planes diverted to the nearest airports available. The mass disruption was a stark difference to the one-off disruptions pilots usually face, says Tonkin, a former Qantas captain. He says that in the early 2000s India once fired missiles in his flight path as he piloted his regular Boeing 747 route from Rome to Singapore. Air traffic controllers warned Tonkin that live missile drills had unexpectedly closed the airspace around the Bay of Bengal, forcing him to recalculate. “The first thing is: Where are we? And how much fuel have we got and where do we need to go?” he says. Tonkin and his first officer, or co-pilot, checked their maps for a nearby airport to land at. With enough fuel reserves, they decided to keep going – the long way around. These calculations would normally be made with computer readouts and airline operations centre on speed dial, Tonkin says. But crises that erupt without warning can leave pilots to rely on their own judgment. Diversion dilemmas Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and neighbour...
This week the company declared "force majeure" - a clause freeing it from liability for failure to supply due to events outside its control - and Kaabi said he believed all other energy exporters would have to follow suit in the next few days if the war continues.
This week the company declared "force majeure" - a clause freeing it from liability for failure to supply due to events outside its control - and Kaabi said he believed all other energy exporters would have to follow suit in the next few days if the war continues.
There could be 227 million obese children worldwide by 2040. But as South Korea and Denmark have shown, it is possible to tackle this crisis Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Despite health and fitness being more in vogue than ever, childhood obesity rates continue to rise. A new report from the World Obesity Federation warns that by 2040, the number of f...
There could be 227 million obese children worldwide by 2040. But as South Korea and Denmark have shown, it is possible to tackle this crisis Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Despite health and fitness being more in vogue than ever, childhood obesity rates continue to rise. A new report from the World Obesity Federation warns that by 2040, the number of five- to 19-year-olds globally who are obese could increase from 180 million to 227 million. This is defined as a BMI of 30 or above – and is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and a number of other serious health conditions. These trends are also clear in the UK, where overweight and obesity rates continue to increase in children. In England, the National Child Measurement Programme (which takes height and weight data in year 6 for 94.1% of all eligible children) for 2024-25 found that 36.2% of children aged 10-11 had a high BMI (more than 25), with children in the most deprived areas twice as likely to be obese, and projections indicating that in some areas, the majority of children would be at an unhealthy weight by 2035. The UK as a whole has twice the number of overweight and obese children as either France or Italy. Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Continue reading...
There are many reasons why Amy Wallace wishes Virginia Roberts Giuffre was still alive. Some are personal. Some are practical. But at its heart pulse the reverberations of a child sex trafficking scandal that reaches into palaces and courtrooms across the globe. Wallace is the now very visible ghostwriter behind the posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, by Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accuser. “I was s...
There are many reasons why Amy Wallace wishes Virginia Roberts Giuffre was still alive. Some are personal. Some are practical. But at its heart pulse the reverberations of a child sex trafficking scandal that reaches into palaces and courtrooms across the globe. Wallace is the now very visible ghostwriter behind the posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, by Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accuser. “I was supposed to be the invisible ghostwriter, which I was perfectly happy to be and that’s what I signed up to do,” Wallace says. But Giuffre’s April 2025 suicide at her farm near Perth catapulted her impending memoir, and its San-Francisco-based author, into a spotlight that was already burning brightly. double quotation mark Virginia wanted to help other people who had any kind of trauma. Amy Wallace “Because I stepped forward at the publisher’s request and promoted the book, people got in touch with me to tell me how the book had affected them,” Wallace says. “If I could show Virginia one email of all the emails that I have gotten, it is actually from a woman in Australia.” The email came from a 70-year-old woman who said Giuffre’s book helped her understand the impact of having been abused by a neighbour as a five-year-old – a fact she had never disclosed to anyone. Men too spoke of how the book helped them make sense of past horrors, Wallace says. There were 40,087 victims of sexual assault recorded in Australia in 2024 – an increase of 10% on the previous year, according to the Bureau of Statistics. “It is moving, and I know that is the reason that Virginia wrote the book. She was very clear about it – she wanted to help other people who had any kind of trauma.” “I just know that [the emails] would have made her so proud.” This Sunday, at the All About Women 2026 festival in Sydney, Wallace and British journalist Emily Maitlis will examine the institutions that turned a blind eye to Epstein’s dark world. In 2019, Maitlis famously put then prince Andrew, the duke of York, o...
Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade ov...
Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found. Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures. It found global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth’s temperature in 1880. “If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the study. Extreme heat in recent years has been pushed higher by natural fluctuations – such as solar cycles, volcanic eruptions, and the weather pattern El Niño – that have led scientists to question whether startling temperature readings are outliers or the result of an increase in global heating. The researchers applied a noise-reduction method to filter out the estimated effect of nonhuman factors in five major datasets that scientists have compiled to gauge the Earth’s temperature. In each of them, they found an acceleration in global heating emerged in 2013 or 2014. “There is now pretty widespread – if not quite universal – agreement that there has been a detectable acceleration in warming in recent years,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, who was not involved in the study. “However, it remains unclear how much of the additional warming over the past decade in particular is a forced response versus unforced variability.” The blanket of carbon pollution smothering the Earth has heated the planet by about 1.4C since preindustrial levels, compounded by a recent drop in cooling sulphur pollutants that had provided temporary relief. A study Hausfather...
Oracle (ORCL) has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks. Therefore, you might want to consider some of the key factors that could influence the stock's performance in the near future. Shares of this software maker have returned +13.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.6% change. The Zacks Computer - Software industry, to which Oracle belongs, has g...
Oracle (ORCL) has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks. Therefore, you might want to consider some of the key factors that could influence the stock's performance in the near future. Shares of this software maker have returned +13.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.6% change. The Zacks Computer - Software industry, to which Oracle belongs, has gained 5.3% over this period. Now the key question is: Where could the stock be headed in the near term? While media releases or rumors about a substantial change in a company's business prospects usually make its stock 'trending' and lead to an immediate price change, there are always some fundamental facts that eventually dominate the buy-and-hold decision-making. Revisions to Earnings Estimates Here at Zacks, we prioritize appraising the change in the projection of a company's future earnings over anything else. That's because we believe the present value of its future stream of earnings is what determines the fair value for its stock. We essentially look at how sell-side analysts covering the stock are revising their earnings estimates to reflect the impact of the latest business trends. And if earnings estimates go up for a company, the fair value for its stock goes up. A higher fair value than the current market price drives investors' interest in buying the stock, leading to its price moving higher. This is why empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements. Oracle is expected to post earnings of $1.70 per share for the current quarter, representing a year-over-year change of +15.7%. Over the last 30 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate remained unchanged. For the current fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $7.36 points to a change of +22.1% from the prior year. Over the last 30 days, this estimate has changed -0.5%. For the next fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $...
Oracle (ORCL) has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks. Therefore, you might want to consider some of the key factors that could influence the stock's performance in the near future. Shares of this software maker have returned +13.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.6% change. The Zacks Computer - Software industry, to which Oracle belongs, has g...
Oracle (ORCL) has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks. Therefore, you might want to consider some of the key factors that could influence the stock's performance in the near future. Shares of this software maker have returned +13.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.6% change. The Zacks Computer - Software industry, to which Oracle belongs, has gained 5.3% over this period. Now the key question is: Where could the stock be headed in the near term? While media releases or rumors about a substantial change in a company's business prospects usually make its stock 'trending' and lead to an immediate price change, there are always some fundamental facts that eventually dominate the buy-and-hold decision-making. Revisions to Earnings Estimates Here at Zacks, we prioritize appraising the change in the projection of a company's future earnings over anything else. That's because we believe the present value of its future stream of earnings is what determines the fair value for its stock. We essentially look at how sell-side analysts covering the stock are revising their earnings estimates to reflect the impact of the latest business trends. And if earnings estimates go up for a company, the fair value for its stock goes up. A higher fair value than the current market price drives investors' interest in buying the stock, leading to its price moving higher. This is why empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements. Oracle is expected to post earnings of $1.70 per share for the current quarter, representing a year-over-year change of +15.7%. Over the last 30 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate remained unchanged. For the current fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $7.36 points to a change of +22.1% from the prior year. Over the last 30 days, this estimate has changed -0.5%. For the next fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $...