Gareth O’Connor

BBC 10pm news reports a “giant U.S. bomber” has arrived at a UK airport

Daily Telegraph: Putin helps Iran attack the U.S. #TomorrowsPapersToday

Pres. Obama at the Jackson service:

"We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope. Each day, we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions."

"If we don't step up, no one else will. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him."

#TomorrowsPapersToday The National in Scotland

CNBC: Dow falls 450 points, posts worst week in nearly a year as oil tops $90, jobs data disappoints

Wales playing with heart #SixNations #IrevWal

Realpolitik

Weekend FT: Qatar warns Gulf will be forced to halt exports of oil and gas ‘in days’ #TomorrowsPapersToday

Saturday press preview #TomorrowsPapersToday

Petrol pump prices ⛽️ 6.3.26

Former President Obama giving oration at Jesse Jackson’s memorial celebration of life in Chicago

Update: Ghanaian UNIFIL forces in Lebanon were attacked today and there were casualties. Irish troops are providing support after the attack. Defence Forces have condemned the attack

Defence Forces in Dublin say all Irish UNIFIL peacekeeping troops in Lebanon are safe and accounted for

🚨 Brent crude oil price hits $90 a barrel

Wall Street opens lower 📉

Cuba next?

Trump posts there will be no Iran deal without an unconditional surrender

All eyes on Wall Street open to see how markets react to this and growing energy shock/war fears

CNN: U.S. economy lost 92 thousand jobs in February, worse than expected.

New Eirgrid data shows 48% of electricity came from renewable sources in February

Qatar’s Energy Minister has told the FT oil could rise to $150 a barrel, which would trigger a global economic shock

Axel Springer poised to buy Telegraph in £500mn deal German media group has gatecrashed a proposed acquisition by the owner of the Daily Mail

Massive UK media scoop - Germany's Axel Springer is poised to agree a shock £500mn deal for the Telegraph in a move that will scupper the acquisition of the UK newspaper group by the Daily Mail. W/ the FT's finest @JFK_America @ArashMassoudi

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The crisis in the Middle East is adding to an already urgent debate in Europe over what to do about cripplingly high energy prices.

But the solutions flying around are either politically explosive, unworkable, or unlikely to make a quick difference.

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One pet theory I have is that when numbers get really big, markets tend to ignore possibilities for a while. The bias is ignore this, until we are forced to think about it.

Getting this vibe extremely strongly

WAPO: “.. Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.”

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UNHCR says a major humanitarian emergency unfolding in the Middle East

Qatar's energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could "bring down the economies of the world", predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks and drive oil to $150 a barrel. Saad al-Kaabi told the FT that even if the war ended immediately it would take Qatar "weeks to months" to return to a normal cycle of deliveries following an Iranian drone strike at its largest liquefied natural gas plant. Qatar, the world's second-largest producer of LNG, was forced to declare force majeure this week after the strike at its Ras Lattan plant. While Qatar only exports a small proportion of its gas to Europe, the energy minister said the continent would feel significant pain as Asian buyers outbid Europeans for whatever gas is available on the market, and as other Gulf countries find themselves unable to meet their contractual obligations.

The Iran War could “bring down the economies of the world”, Qatar’s Energy Minister tells the FT.

Wave energy #SpeirGorm

Genuinely fascinating divergence.
Oil and energy market types: really beginning to freak out.
Global macro types: mostly relatively calm and expecting this to all blow over.

FT: Qatar warns war to stop energy exports within weeks