The ‘Armageddon scenario’ for gas markets
Investors sounded the alarm on Thursday after a major Qatar gas facility took serious damage, and amateur traders are going wild for five-minute bets....
Federal Reserve holds steady as inflation fears mount
The US has relaxed sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil group Petróleos de Venezuela and the Federal Reserve has stuck with plans to cut rates lat...
How Saudi Arabia’s bet on Iran backfired
The EU wants to make mergers a bit easier, Wall Street banks are offloading $18bn of debt tied to video game maker Electronic Arts, and investors are ...
Iran war tests China’s oil stockpile
The FT’s Gideon Rachman explains what the Strait of Hormuz’s closure means strategically for Iran, Italy’s UniCredit has launched a €35bn takeover off...
US shale producers not yet tempted by $100 oil
Donald Trump warned Nato faces a “very bad” future if US allies fail to assist in opening up the Strait of Hormuz, and though oil prices have breached...
Artificial intimacy: How to fall in love with AI
Introducing Artificial intimacy from Tech Tonic. For the next episodes in this season go to the Tech Tonic feed. Calder Quinn has fallen into a relat...
US-Iran war boosts Russian oil revenues
Gulf oil producers have lost billions of dollars in energy revenues since the start of the US-Iran war, but there is one country benefiting: Russia. I...
Hold on — tech stocks are a safe haven now?
The International Energy Agency has launched the largest release of strategic oil reserves in its history, investors have sought shelter from the turm...
Corporate America grapples with huge oil price swings
Oracle’s shares climbed 9 per cent on Tuesday after the database group posted better than expected earnings, and we discuss how American businesses ar...
The US is leaving an Iranian island untouched
The price of oil fell sharply, and we’ll take a look at why the US and Israel are avoiding an attack on Iran’s Kharg Island. Plus, the FT’s George Ham...