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Anna Edwards, Tom Mackenzie and Morwenna Coniam break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade."

Ole Hansen, commodity strategy head at Saxo Bank, discusses the impact of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East on energy markets as oil heads for another weekly gain. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Hansen says everything "points to a higher for longer" scenario. "It will take time to get that supply back, so higher for longer seems to be the risk right now," he adds.

Attacks on oil and gas infrastructure in the Arabian Gulf have escalated in the past two days. After a rebuke from President Trump, Israel says it will no longer target energy assets after its attack on an Iranian gas field sparked retaliatory strikes, cause oil and gas prices to surge. Crystol Energy Global Advisor, Christof Rühl, says the US is running out of methods to keep the oil price low if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened. He spokes to Joumanna Bercetche on Horizons Middle East and Africa.

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.