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Iran has responded to US and Israeli attacks by launching a series of counterstrikes against states across the Middle East, with serious consequences for the oil and gas industry and the global economy.Map of Iranian strikes in the Middle EastTehran has attacked oil facilities in neighbouring countries, while shipping traffic through the strait of Hormuz – the crucial bottleneck at the mouth of the Gulf – has all but ground to a halt.The seaway between Iran and Oman – barely more than 20 miles wide at its narrowest point – is an unavoidable choke point through which about 20% of…

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Paramount Skydance plans to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into one streaming service, chief executive David Ellison announced during a call with investors, days after the company said it would acquire HBO parent company Warner Bros Discovery.The deal would allow major HBO Max titles, such as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Succession, to sit alongside Paramount offerings including Yellowstone and Survivor. Ellison said combining the two platforms would give the company more than 200 million direct-to-consumer subscribers.“We think that really positions us to compete with the leaders in the space,” Ellison said.Ellison said he wants HBO to “operate…

Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. MongoDB — Shares plunged 23% in extended trading. MongoDB said it sees first-quarter adjusted earnings per share of between $1.15 and $1.19 and revenue of between $659 million and $664 million. Analysts polled by LSEG expected earnings of $1.21 per share and $662 million in revenue for the first quarter. Asana — Shares of the enterprise work management software platform dropped more than 1% after the company issued disappointing guidance. Asana, which beat fourth-quarter expectations on top and bottom lines, said it expects first-quarter revenue to come out between $202.5 million…

Crypto is built on a powerful idea: align incentives correctly, and rational actors will secure the system.Most protocol design rests on this belief.But there’s a blind spot few teams model seriously:What if harming the network is rational — just not within the network itself?This is the foundation of what we can call crypto griefing markets: situations where actors willingly lose money on-chain because they profit elsewhere.Not hacks.Not exploits.Not rug pulls.But economically rational sabotage.Defining Crypto GriefingIn game theory, griefing refers to behavior where an actor accepts a cost in order to impose a cost on others. Traditionally, it’s seen as irrational…

The U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, and one relatively obscure U.S. company seems ready to reap the benefits of a surge in global natural-gas prices following the U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran and the widening conflict in the Middle East.

November 2023 (Revised March 2026) Debt Flexibility Rhys Bidder, Nicolas Crouzet, Margaret M. Jacobson, and Michael Siemer Abstract: How flexible are corporate loans after origination? Theory predicts coordination problems should make syndicated loans harder to modify than single-bank loans. We show the opposite. Using comprehensive regulatory data, we document that syndicated loans are modified frequently and respond to borrower distress, while single-lender loans are half as likely to be modified. This gap is not explained by covenants or performance pricing. Instead, syndicated loans are monitored more intensively. We show theoretically and empirically how fixed monitoring costs generate scale economies: larger…

Defense spending is set to get “more urgent and less controversial,” an analyst notes, and numerous stocks could benefit.

Airline stocks drop as the Iran conflict sparks worries about rising fuel costs.

President Donald Trump (L), and JP Morgan CEO, Jamie Dimon.ReutersJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Monday that while President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking $5 billion in damages for shuttering his accounts was without merit, he sympathized with the president’s anger over the episode.Trump is accusing JPMorgan and others of closing his accounts for political reasons in what his conservative supporters have called discrimination. “The case has no merit,” Dimon told CNBC’s Leslie Picker in an interview on the sidelines of a JPMorgan conference in Miami.”But I agree with them,” he said. “They have the right to be angry. I’d be…