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India Nifty’s Gains Look Fragile on Soaring Crude, HDFC Bank Board Exit

Local shares have shed more than $600 billion in market value this year.

SEC gives go-ahead to Nasdaq for tokenized trading trial

Nasdaq has been given the regulatory green light to offer some tokenized stocks, which will trade alongside traditional securities on its exchange.

Rohan Dennis social media post of Porsche criticised as ‘offensive’ after wife Melissa Hoskins fatally struck by car

Hoskins, who was an Olympic cyclist like Dennis, was struck by his car in 2023. His return to Instagram included picture with caption ‘an absolute weapon’ Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis, who 10 months ago was given a 17-month suspended sentence after his car fatally struck his wife, has returned to social media with a post describing a Porsche as an “absolute weapon”. Melissa Hoskins, an acclaimed world and Olympic cyclist, died when she was struck by a car driven by her husband near their home at Medindie, in Adelaide’s inner north, in December 2023. Continue reading...

Oil Prices Hit $112 as Iran Expands Strikes on Gulf Energy Sites

Oil prices climbed sharply in early Asian trading on Thursday as the Middle East conflict continued to escalate and energy infrastructure was targeted across the Gulf. At the time of writing, Brent crude had climbed to $112.00, up 4.27%, while West Texas Intermediate had risen 2.73% to $98.95.  The latest price spike came after Iran targeted energy infrastructure across the Middle East in retaliation for earlier strikes on its South Pars gas field. Qatar confirmed that Iranian missile strikes had caused “extensive damage” around…

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$200 Oil No Longer Crazy Idea as Middle East Supply Collapses

$200 Oil No Longer Crazy Idea as Middle East Supply Collapses https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/200-Oil-No-Longer-Crazy-Idea-as-Middle-East-Supply-Collapses.html By Irina Slav - Mar 18, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT Middle East oil exports and production have collapsed, removing over 7–10 million bpd from global supply and creating a severe physical shortage. Tight supply and limited storage mean prices could surge to $150–$200+ per barrel, with some analysts warning of extreme spikes if disruptions persist. Even if the conflict ends, recovery will be slow, and temporary relief won’t fully offset the shortage, keeping prices elevated. A month ago, any analyst suggesting international oil prices could soar all the way to $200 per barrel would have been laughed out of the studio. Now, some are beginning to acknowledge that this is a real possibility, and with good reason. Oil and fuel exports from the Middle East stood at 25.13 million barrels daily in February, Reuters reported this month, citing data from Kpler. By mid-March, this had plummeted by close to two-thirds, to 9.71 million barrels a day. Vortexa has even more worrying figures, putting the February daily average at 26.1 million barrels of crude and fuels, and the mid—March average at just 7.5 million barrels daily. Yet even worse than daily shipments is the situation in production. Everyone in the Middle East is cutting oil production—and those wells take a while to restart. The reason they are cutting is that storage capacity is limited—and some of those “export” barrels are actually going on tankers for storage rather than shipment to clients. A fifth of global oil, in other words, is severely disrupted, and even if the bombs stop flying tomorrow, it will take a while for things to get back to normal. Iraq has reportedly curbed oil production by some 2.9 million barrels daily, ING commodity strategists said in a note earlier today. In Saudi Arabia, the cuts are to the tune of between 2 million barrels daily and 2.5 million barrels daily. The UAE has reduced production by 1.5 million bpd, and Kuwait has slashed output by a reported 1.3 million barrels daily. That makes a total of over 7 million barrels daily gone. For context, the International Energy Agency had predicted the oil market would this year be in a surplus of around 3.7 million barrels daily.Not only is that now gone , but there is more supply frozen because of the crisis. Indeed, the IEA itself estimates shut-in production at 10 million barrels daily. What all this means is that there is no physical oil to respond to demand. And when physical supply is tight, prices fly high and take a while to go back down if the situation normalizes, even accounting for the destruction in demand that high oil prices would inevitably cause. “We’re very much in the $150 range but I don’t think it’s ridiculous at all to [suggest] $200. It would be very fair given we are basically having a crisis-a-day right now equivalent to supply

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‘Unprecedented in spread’: UK races to contain deadly meningitis outbreak

Britain will ⁠roll out meningitis vaccines to students at a university in southeast England after an “unprecedented” outbreak of the disease killed two people while the number of new cases jumped to 20. The UK Health Security Agency said all those affected were young people. A 21-year-old student at the University of Kent and a teenage student at a school in ‌the town of Faversham have died. Six of the nine confirmed cases are group B (MenB), the agency added. It was also aware of a baby with a...

Signal or Noise: What VR Adviser's Spyre Theraputics Buy Means for Fools

Spyre Therapeutics focuses on antibody therapies for inflammatory bowel disease, advancing a pipeline aimed at gastrointestinal health.

$200 Oil No Longer Crazy Idea as Middle East Supply Collapses

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/200-Oil-No-Longer-Crazy-Idea-as-Middle-East-Supply-Collapses.html By Irina Slav - Mar 18, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT Middle East oil exports and production have collapsed, removing over 7–10 million bpd from global supply and creating a severe physical shortage. Tight supply and limited storage mean prices could surge to $150–$200+ per barrel, with some analysts warning of extreme spikes if disruptions persist. Even if the conflict ends, recovery will be slow, and temporary relief won’t fully offset the shortage, keeping prices elevated. A month ago, any analyst suggesting international oil prices could soar all the way to $200 per barrel would have been laughed out of the studio. Now, some are beginning to acknowledge that this is a real possibility, and with good reason. Oil and fuel exports from the Middle East stood at 25.13 million barrels daily in February, Reuters reported this month, citing data from Kpler. By mid-March, this had plummeted by close to two-thirds, to 9.71 million barrels a day. Vortexa has even more worrying figures, putting the February daily average at 26.1 million barrels of crude and fuels, and the mid—March average at just 7.5 million barrels daily. Yet even worse than daily shipments is the situation in production. Everyone in the Middle East is cutting oil production—and those wells take a while to restart. The reason they are cutting is that storage capacity is limited—and some of those “export” barrels are actually going on tankers for storage rather than shipment to clients. A fifth of global oil, in other words, is severely disrupted, and even if the bombs stop flying tomorrow, it will take a while for things to get back to normal. Iraq has reportedly curbed oil production by some 2.9 million barrels daily, ING commodity strategists said in a note earlier today. In Saudi Arabia, the cuts are to the tune of between 2 million barrels daily and 2.5 million barrels daily. The UAE has reduced production by 1.5 million bpd, and Kuwait has slashed output by a reported 1.3 million barrels daily. That makes a total of over 7 million barrels daily gone. For context, the International Energy Agency had predicted the oil market would this year be in a surplus of around 3.7 million barrels daily.Not only is that now gone , but there is more supply frozen because of the crisis. Indeed, the IEA itself estimates shut-in production at 10 million barrels daily. What all this means is that there is no physical oil to respond to demand. And when physical supply is tight, prices fly high and take a while to go back down if the situation normalizes, even accounting for the destruction in demand that high oil prices would inevitably cause. “We’re very much in the $150 range but I don’t think it’s ridiculous at all to [suggest] $200. It would be very fair given we are basically having a crisis-a-day right now equivalent to supply outages,” Onyx Capital Group CEO Greg Newman told CNBC this we

Algorand Foundation Cuts Workforce By 25% Amid Market Uncertainty

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Algorand Foundation cuts 25% of staff, citing macro uncertainty

The Algorand Foundation said it has a “more sustainable alignment” of resources with the protocol’s long-term business priorities.

Whale investor buys $111 million worth of Ethereum one year after selling: onchain data

A whale trader has reportedly bought 50,706 ETH with 111.62 million USDT on Wednesday, after selling holdings a year earlier.

Three women killed in occupied West Bank missile attack

Three women in an occupied West Bank hair salon became the first Palestinian deaths of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

World’s ‘happiest’ places revealed as social media weighs on us

Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and western Europe according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published on Thursday. The annual report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, also found that Finland was the happiest land in the world for the ninth year in a row, with other Nordic countries such as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden...

Micron outlines >$25B FY26 CapEx plan while expanding NAND and DRAM capacity amid persistent supply constraints

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Saudi FM warns Iran that patience in Gulf not ‘unlimited’ amid attacks

Foreign minister warns Iran that regional neighbours have 'significant' capabilities with which to respond to attacks.

Reader callout: are you feeling the petrol pinch in Australia, and how is it affecting you?

Have you cancelled a holiday? Are you working from home more or taking fewer journeys? Tell us your experience Global oil market prices have surged, with the US-Israel war on Iran disrupting key shipping routes. The strait of Hormuz, where as much as a fifth of global fuel supply travels through, has been closed due to the conflict. Asia is deeply affected by the crisis, relying heavily on imported energy that passes through the strait. Continue reading...

Lynas Expands Rare Earths Clout With First Batch of Samarium

Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. has started producing samarium — a metal used across advanced industries — at its plant in Malaysia, bolstering the company’s standing as an alternative to China in supplying critical materials.

Senate Republicans vote down Democrats’ war powers resolution to check Trump on Iran – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. Trump news at a glance: president’s war on Iran is putting billions on the US till Sign up for Breaking US News US emails Rand Paul seemed immediately frustrated with Mullin as he opened the hearing. While he was speaking, he suggested that Mullin wasn’t listening to his remarks, during which he pushed Trump’s nominee on his vote against Paul’s amendment to stop all funding for refugee welfare programs. “You decided to transfer the blame. You told the media that I was a ‘freaking snake’ and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted,” Paul said, referring to when he was attacked by a neighbor in Kentucky in 2017, which resulted in Paul breaking several ribs and developing pneumonia. Continue reading...