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Israel said it will no longer target energy infrastructure after an attack on an Iranian gas field sparked retaliatory strikes against energy assets across the Middle East, causing oil and gas prices to surge and prompting a rebuke from President Donald Trump. "Israel acted alone," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference on Thursday, after Israeli officials previously said they had informed the US about the attack. Netanyahu also said Israeli forces would help the US attempt to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and that the war would be over faster than people think, in comments that helped calm markets on a day that already-elevated energy prices spiked once again.

1994 NBA All-Star and New York Knicks legend John Starks discusses collegiate sports, March Madness, how the NBA has changed since his playing career ended, and the Knicks playoff push. He talks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close."

Matthew Diczok, head of fixed income strategy, Merrill and Bank of America Private Bank said the market doesn't expect their to be a sustained increase in energy. he world's bond markets were whipsawed by unusual volatility as investors rushed to bet on higher interest rates after key central banks signaled fresh concern the surge in oil prices will deliver an inflation shock. Three weeks into the war in Iran, the fallout unleashed a major repricing of short-term bonds during much of Thursday's trading day by dashing once widespread expectations that central banks would cut rates this year to spur growth.  The selloff was led by the UK, where the surge in yields held echoes of 2022, when former Prime Minister Liz Truss' fiscal plans sent the market into a tailspin. The two-year rate jumped as much as 40 basis points to 4.49% after the Bank of England on Thursday said it "stands ready" to act to prevent inflation from accelerating.

Well, pull out the party hats and dust off the stock tickers. 

Lithium, the commodity that investors and analysts had all but left for dead in the great market purge of 2023-2024, is back.

The stock market has long treated Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) less as a traditional automaker and more as a futuristic technology cult, with its valuation soaring on the gravitational pull of its CEO, Elon Musk. 

This persistent "Musk Premium" has burned countless short-sellers. 

Bitcoin has vaporised more than US$800 billion in its latest crash and sucked US$1 trillion out of the broader crypto market.

With nearly US$2 trillion in market value and rising allocations from Wall Street firms, ETFs, pension funds, and insurers, Bitcoin is increasingly woven into traditional finance.

Global energy markets are reeling as oil tracks toward its most significant weekly gain in four years, fuelled by escalating conflict in the Middle East.

Global oil prices held steady on March 3 as energy markets braced for an intensification of conflict in the Middle East.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will officially stop collecting billions in trade duties at 12:01 a.m. EST on Tuesday, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling that declared President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to levy tariffs illegal.