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September WTI crude oil (CLU26) closed up +2.07 (+2.75%) on Thursday, and September RBOB gasoline (RBU26) closed up +0.0997 (+3.51%).Crude oil and gasoline prices settled sharply higher on Thursday amid uncertainty regarding a proposed plan by Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  Also, a reported missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker by Houthi rebels gave crude oil prices a boost.  Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.   Crude prices raced to their highs on Thursday after Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported that vessels belonging…

“Toy Story 5,” “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Spider-Man Brand New Day.”Disney | Universal Pictures | SonyBillion-dollar films are back in Hollywood.The theatrical industry welcomed its fourth billion-dollar film of 2026 this week as Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” surpassed the coveted benchmark. It joins the three-comma ranks alongside Universal’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” Lionsgate’s “Michael” and Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5.” The group should soon be joined by Universal’s “The Odyssey,” which has tallied $912 million globally through Sunday and is set to play in theaters through at least mid-September.Box office analysts expect Warner…

Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements have stressed the importance of anchoring inflation expectations and hinted that some central banks may be reacting too slowly to the most significant energy shock in decades.Ryan Niladri Banerjee, Fiorella De Fiore, Marco Jacopo Lombardi and Giovanni Lombardo analyse the challenges of energy shocks and inflation for monetary policy in a bulletin article published today (August 5).“Anchoring inflation expectations is critical,” the Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.To access these options, along with all other subscription benefits, please…

As you can imagine, this specified “one night” would be especially mad in a city like New York, where people are often a little nuts to begin with, and that’s where One Night Only takes place. Owen (Callum Turner, rendering a reasonably believable American accent) runs a pizza joint, and he’s getting ready to close up shop as this special 12-hour night is set to begin. He’s not married, but he does have a girlfriend (played by Maya Hawke), who informs him, when they meet up for their date, that she wants to use this one free night of premarital…

The midpoint of the company’s revenue forecast was below what analysts had been modeling.

R25, an on-chain vault infrastructure protocol, has integrated with Binance Wallet to launch what it describes as the first tokenised emerging-market consumer-credit vault available to a mass-retail audience. The product, named Axil Prime Credit (APC), is a three-month USDC vault targeting a gross annualised yield of approximately 14.3%, though R25 notes this figure is currently supported by a launch incentive campaign and is not guaranteed. The vault is curated by Axil, a private credit manager whose team includes alumni from BlackRock, HSBC and HashKey. It is built on the R25 Protocol and deployed on Pharos Mainnet. R25 says the underlying…

While Figma’s consumption-based AI monetization strategy is showing promise, the company’s margins are taking a hit.

“We can ship higher-quality products much, much more quickly,” an executive said in the wake of the company’s better-than-expected earnings report

Ace pollster John McLaughlin, using an accurate survey of 1,000 likely voters, shows when Republican candidates clearly support free-market capitalism versus Democratic policies of big government socialism, the GOP moves from a virtual tie in the generic Congressional ballot, to a commanding 49 percent to 36 percent lead. Independent and moderate voters show exactly the same move toward the GOP when the subject is capitalism versus socialism. There’s a lesson here. And it’s a pity that the Republicans are not likely to produce a pro-growth, pro-affordability, tax and spending cut budget package. A missed opportunity. However, the second choice if…