Rolls-Royce share price has held steady in the past few days as concerns about the civil aviation industry have eased modestly, signaling that the impact of the travel disruptions will not be as severe as expected. RR stock jumped to 1,315p on Tuesday, ups sharply from the year-to-date low of…
Markets are starting Tuesday with one message above all others: geopolitics is now setting the pace for prices.The US move to blockade Iranian ports has jolted oil, reshaped risk appetite and injected fresh uncertainty into Asia’s trading day just as China’s latest trade data hints at a more fragile global…
Asian markets opened higher on Tuesday as investors returned to equities after a bruising stretch of geopolitical volatility.The rebound came after a retreat in oil prices following US Vice President JD Vance’s indication that a deal between Washington and Tehran was still possible.“Whether we have further conversations, whether we ultimately…
SK Hynix stock climbed to a record high on Tuesday as investors doubled down on one of the market’s clearest artificial-intelligence hardware trades.The rally reflected continuing conviction that SK Hynix sits in one of the strongest positions in the AI infrastructure chain through its dominance in high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The…
After a vintage 2025 that saw European bank valuations more than double in their best showing since 1997, the sector hit a geopolitical wall in March 2026.Tensions between the US and Iran triggered a sharp 10% correction in the Stoxx 600 Banks index, momentarily erasing three years of near-linear gains.However,…
Barclays has picked out IAG and Ryanair as its preferred names in Europe’s airline sector and argued that elevated fuel costs are doing more than squeezing margins.They are beginning to redraw the competitive map.At a moment when the world is facing oil volatility, supply disruption, and fare pressure, the broker’s…
IAG share price has rebounded in the past four consecutive weeks and is showing bottoming signs as crude oil retreats from the year-to-date high. It was trading at $383 on Monday, up by 15% from its lowest level this year. It remains much lower than the year-to-date high of 463p.Falling…
OpenAI’s massive $852 billion valuation is coming under scrutiny from some of its own investors as the company pivots its focus toward enterprise offerings, according to a report by the Financial Times published on Tuesday.The concerns emerge as the company pivots towards enterprise-focused offerings in an effort to counter rising…
Novo Nordisk on Tuesday announced a partnership with OpenAI to deploy artificial intelligence across its business, spanning drug discovery, manufacturing and commercial operations, as the Danish drugmaker looks to sharpen its competitive edge in the fast-growing obesity drug market.The company said the collaboration would leverage OpenAI’s technology to analyse complex…
BP is heading into its first-quarter results with an unusually strong message on earnings, but also with a less comfortable one on the balance sheet.The oil major said on Tuesday that its oil trading business is expected to deliver “exceptional” results in the first quarter.The forecasts are helped by the…