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Justin Sun is taking his crypto business Tron public through a reverse merger with a toy manufacturer.

Geopolitics need to alter the trajectory of economic growth and inflation to really matter to markets, argued Deutsche Bank.

Global equity markets rose on Monday as fighting in the Middle East escalated.

Trump issued an order that allowed U.S. Steel and Nippon to finalize their merger so long as they signed a national security agreement with the U.S. government.

Investors have been weighing the odds of further escalation in the conflict and spillover into the broader oil-rich Middle East.

U.S. futures ticked up on Monday, while gold prices dipped. Those moves suggest investors are operating with a cooler head now after the initial panic.

"Never try and predict what the price of oil is going to be, because there's one sure thing: You're going to be wrong," says Baker Hughes CEO Lorenzo Simonelli.

The move marks the biggest intraday jump in Santos' shares since April 2020.

The markets have mostly shrugged off Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war. But Israel's conflict with Iran is still in its early days.

Israel hit two natural gas processing facilities in Iran as well as an oil depot.