Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, stated that Europe has maybe six weeks or so of jet fuel left, warning of possible flight cancellations soon if oil supplies remain halted by the war.
Nearly half of firms (48%) expected turnover to grow over the next 12 months in the first quarter of the year, up from 42% in the final quarter of 2025.
The 21.2% surge in gasoline prices in March was the biggest single-month percentage increase in records that date back to the 1960s, driving the overall Consumer Price Index to its highest one-month surge since the peak of the Biden-era inflation in 2022.
Major indices, including the Nasdaq Composite, S&P 500, and Dow Jones Industrial Average, all recorded gains, with the Nasdaq delivering its strongest weekly performance since November.
The enormous expectation that was created after the U.S. intervention against Nicolas Maduro in January and its still meager results in the domestic finances of ordinary Venezuelans is threatening both the plans of Chavismo to remain in power and those of Washington to continue exploring the possibilities that Venezuela has opened up.
We may be, in the course of 2026, coming to a point where the whole thing becomes unsustainable, because so much of the Russian economy has been distorted so much by the building up of the war economy at the expense of the civil economy. I think defying the laws of economic gravity can only go on for so long.
China's exports have decelerated as the Iran war starts to affect global demand and supply chains, according to Gary Ng, a senior economist for Asia Pacific at French bank Natixis.
