Oil prices above $100 per barrel, rising fuel costs for consumers and shortages of metals and petrochemicals refined in the Gulf region could hurt automakers.
Iran has continued to ship crude oil via the Strait of Hormuz to China even as the war between U.S.-Israel and Iran has disrupted broader energy supplies via the waterway.
Google is rolling out a feature that lets civilian and military personnel build custom AI agents for unclassified work on the Pentagon's enterprise AI portal.
The IEA's members are advanced economies in North America, Europe and Northeast Asia. They collectively hold about 1.2 billion barrels of oil in reserve.
A prolonged U.S.-Israel war against Iran could lead to shortages of key chipmaking materials and higher energy costs which could hurt semiconductor demand.