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Oil Prices Edge Higher, While World Shares Are Mixed After Wall Street Gains
Renewed U.S.-Iran fighting lifted crude prices as AI-driven gains in technology shares helped offset weakness across global markets.
- Oil prices advanced on Thursday as U.S.-Iran fighting intensified, with Brent crude rising 1.7% to $97.25 per barrel after Iran fired at Kuwait in retaliation for U.S. bombardments earlier this week.
- Renewed conflict triggered global bond sell-offs earlier this week, pushing the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield to around 4.78% from more than 4.81% early Wednesday amid inflation and energy shock concerns.
- Investors weighed mixed market results, with AI-related demand driving gains; Nvidia rose 2.2% after announcing a $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, while Snowflake jumped 20.4% on strong quarterly profit results.
- The Labor Department reported Thursday that more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, yet layoffs remain rare and jobless claims stay at historically low levels, indicating labor market resilience.
- Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates before year-end to reach its 2% inflation target, with August inflation figures arriving on Sept. 11 ahead of the central bank's next policy meeting on Sept. 16.
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Oil prices rise again: Brent crosses $97, Asian markets mixed; will concerns increase? Oil prices edge higher, while world shares are mixed after Wall Street gains.
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Nervousness dominates the oil market, with prices returning to the rise after the "correction" that occurred earlier in the wake of a successful business ... The article New jump in oil that "sees" 100 dollars, Brent reached 97 - "Elevator" prices amid crisis in the Middle East was published in NewsIT.
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