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...Brent crude, the international benchmark, added 1 per cent to $77.33 a barrel. The US equivalent, West Texas Intermediate, rose 0.9 per cent to $72.10 a barrel....
...AP Møller-Mærsk, which operates the world’s second-largest container shipping fleet, rose 3.1 per cent, while Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s fifth-largest, jumped almost 8 per cent....
...Oil prices were little changed on Friday, with the international benchmark Brent crude up 0.3 per cent at $76.84 a barrel....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, closed above $90 a barrel yesterday, after breaching that threshold last week for the first time since October....
...Brent crude prices have shot almost 60 per cent higher this year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shook up global commodities markets....
...BP’s decision to bypass the Red Sea pushed oil prices higher on Monday, with international benchmark Brent settling up 1.8 per cent at $77.95 a barrel....
...Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, settled at a two-week high of $79.23 per barrel on Tuesday, up 1.6 per cent on the day....
...Brent crude has risen only slightly this week from $77 to $78 a barrel. BP said its vessels will avoid the route....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, has fallen from about $120 barrel in early June to about $94 a barrel, close to the level it stood at on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine....
...US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said Washington would “take all necessary actions to defend the US and our troops”....
...Gathered in the farthest corner of the lagoon were the mute swans of the Abbotsbury Swannery, once farmed by monks at an adjoining abbey, later used to supply quills to Lloyd's of London....
...The pledge comes a day after the UK said it would cut off the vital Lloyd’s of London insurance market for ships carrying Russian oil, with a waiver for any countries that sign up for the price cap....
...Many UK businesses, from Selfridges, Primark and John Lewis are closing on the day of the funeral to allow employees to pay their respects, as will Lloyd's of London and the Bank of England....
...The latter has arguably become less important as oil prices have eased, declining from about $120 a barrel in June to $85 a barrel today for benchmark Brent....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, has risen from about $100 a barrel at the beginning of May to $120 a barrel, with traders pointing to the looming insurance ban as a key reason for the rise....
...The area west of Kensal Green station and College Road, where there is more postwar housing, can be more affordable, according to Lloyd Malcolm....
...The UK said the Ukrainian city of Kreminna had “reportedly fallen” to Russia Western countries will “keep moving heaven and earth” to supply Ukraine with weapons to defend itself, US defence secretary Lloyd...
...The US pledged a further $322mn in military funding to Ukraine, after Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, defence secretary, made a trip to Kyiv on Sunday....
...Brent crude oil rose 2.4 per cent to $114.24....
...Lloyd Austin, US defence secretary, on Friday ordered an extra 3,000 troops be deployed to Poland at the direction of the president, a Pentagon official said....
...Lloyd Blankfein, former head of Goldman Sachs, said over the weekend there was a “very, very high risk” that the US was headed into a recession....
...Lloyds, HSBC and NatWest have done the same in the past few days. They were all notably upbeat. Rising rates are supposed to fatten up their net interest margins....
...In energy markets, Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose above $80 a barrel for the first time in three years....
...Lloyd Austin, US secretary of defence; General Mark Milley, chair of the joint chiefs of staff; and General Kenneth McKenzie, who heads US central command, are expected to be called as witnesses....
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