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US existing-home sales unexpectedly rose in February and the prior month was revised up. Contract closings increased 1.7% to a 4.09 million annualized rate, according to National Association of Realtors data released Tuesday. Mike McKee reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest."

Hundreds of ships are stacking up near Hormuz as conflict shakes oil markets and disrupts shipping lanes.  Group CEO of V.Group René Kofod-Olsen joined Bloomberg Open Interest to discuss what he's seeing int he region as traffic in the Strait comes to a virtual standstill.

Qantas is hiking international fares about 5% as jet fuel prices spike on Middle East tensions. Savanthi Syth, Airlines Managing Director at Raymond James joined Bloomberg Open Interest to discuss the stress points in the airline industry as the war upends travel.

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.