War will shake the global economy

“Decapitation is not the end,” says John Authers on Bloomberg. “Anne Boleyn’s lips moved as her head was displayed to the crowd after her execution.” The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatoll

Issue of the week: the oil and gas ...

“Nobody knows anything.” Screenwriter William Goldman’s showbiz aphorism comes to mind when trying to keep up with the markets (see page 4) and global politics (see page 8). President Donald Trump sai

“Was that it?” A friend who used to be in the oil business and has seen quite a few spikes in the oil price was underwhelmed by Monday’s increase of around 7% in the price of Brent crude. The move was

Monday was “one of the wildest days” the oil market “has ever seen”, says Malcolm Moore in the Financial Times. Brent crude prices rocketed as high as $119 on dire warnings of production shutdowns in

“Authoritarian politics and military aggression are a dangerous mix,” says Ben Rhodes in The New York Times. The decision to wage war on Iran was made by Donald Trump with “no legal basis, little publ