Polymarket bettor loses $650,000 wagering on Iran regime collapse

A pseudonymous trader known as "Cinibengales" has lost more than $650,000 after placing high-stakes bets on the decentralized prediction market Polymarket, wagering on the collapse of the Iranian government and the entry of U.S. forces into the country outcomes that failed to materialize as......

Gold heads for worst month since 2008 as war-driven dollar surge hammers prices

Gold is on course for its steepest monthly decline since October 2008, falling roughly 15 percent in March as a surging U.S. dollar and rising Treasury yields stripped the metal of its traditional safe-haven appeal, even as a major war rages across the Middle East. The selloff has wiped more than $1......

EU energy ministers to convene Tuesday on Iran war supply crisis

European Union energy ministers will meet by videoconference on Tuesday, March 31, to coordinate a joint response to the oil and gas market disruptions triggered by the war in Iran, according to an internal EU briefing document cited by Reuters. The emergency session comes as European natural gas prices......

Dollar nears 10-month high as Iran war stretches into fifth week

The U.S. dollar climbed toward a 10-month high on Monday as the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran entered its fifth week with no clear path to resolution, buoyed by safe-haven capital flows and surging oil prices that rattled global markets throughout March. The dollar index traded around......

Asian currencies and stocks tumble as Iran war drives oil toward $115

Asian currencies and equity markets came under heavy selling pressure on Monday as the U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran, now entering its fifth week, continued to push oil prices higher and deepen risk aversion across the region. South Korea's Kospi plunged 4.73 percent at the open......

Gold holds near $3,490 as oil surge dims hopes of Fed rate cuts

Gold prices held steady near $3,490 per ounce as the final week of March drew to a close, with the precious metal caught between safe-haven demand driven by escalating Middle East tensions and downward pressure from surging oil prices that have all but erased expectations of Federal Reserve rate cuts......

Cambodia cuts electric vehicle import duties amid global fuel price surge

Cambodia will eliminate import duties on passenger electric vehicles, reducing the rate from 35% to zero effective April 1. The government also removed duties on electric vehicle battery chargers, electric motors, lithium batteries and solar energy devices to help consumers cope with rising energy costs. The......

Oil tops 116 dollars as Iran conflict fuels record electric‑vehicle demand

The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran, along with a de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has upended global energy markets, and the ripple effects are now reshaping how consumers around the world buy cars. With Brent crude surpassing 116 dollars a barrel this week, drivers from Seoul......

Morgan Stanley backs memory stocks after market selloff triggered by TurboQuant

Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, unveiled TurboQuant on Tuesday, March 24, an algorithm that compresses key‑value cache memory in large language models by a factor of six—and within hours memory and storage stocks were tumbling worldwide. The announcement reignited fears that advances in AI......

Sanctioned Russian Oil Tanker heads to Cuba as Trump downplays concerns

A Russian oil tanker under international sanctions is expected to arrive in Cuba, carrying a significant shipment of crude oil as the island faces a deepening energy crisis. The vessel is reportedly transporting hundreds of thousands of barrels and is heading toward a major Cuban port. Cuba, home to......

Suspicious trades linked to Trump policy shifts raise calls for closer scrutiny

A series of highly profitable and well-timed financial trades linked to major policy announcements by Donald Trump have raised concerns among legal and financial experts, prompting calls for closer scrutiny of market activity. Recent analyses of trading patterns show that significant bets were placed......

WTO talks stall as U.S.-India divide over e-commerce duties persists

Negotiations at the World Trade Organization have reached a critical impasse as ministers enter the final day of discussions without a clear agreement on key reform issues, particularly the future of digital trade rules. Talks are taking place during a high-level ministerial meeting in Yaounde, where......

Hormuz shipping paralysis blocks a third of global fertilizer trade as food crisis deepens

Four weeks into the war between the United States, Israel and Iran, the near-total paralysis of the Strait of Hormuz has blocked one third of global seaborne fertilizer trade, triggering a price surge and prompting the United Nations to warn of a "systemic shock" to global food systems as planting......

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