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CNBC Daily Open: Traders on edge despite reserve hopes
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CNBC Daily Open: Traders on edge despite reserve hopes

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 9, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters What you need to know today Oil continued its wild ride Tuesday, closing more than 11% lower, as traders believed a group of countries would tap emergency crude reserves to mitigate […]

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Asia-Pacific markets trade higher as investors weigh developments in the Middle East
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Asia-Pacific markets trade higher as investors weigh developments in the Middle East

Mount Fuji and the Shinjuku skyline in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened higher on Wednesday as investors assessed the ongoing Middle East war. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.35% in early trade. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.36%, while the Topix […]

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Thom Tillis refuses to budge on blocking Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh confirmation
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Thom Tillis refuses to budge on blocking Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh confirmation

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol during votes on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images There is nothing that Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh can say to get Sen. Thom Tillis to end his blockade on Warsh’s confirmation, the North Carolina Republican […]

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Gas prices threaten Republican lawmaker’s plans to win on affordability
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Gas prices threaten Republican lawmaker’s plans to win on affordability

High gas prices are listed at Chevron gas station in Los Angeles on March 9, 2026, as gasoline prices surge amid the ongoing war with Iran. Frederic J. Brown | Afp | Getty Images Rising gas prices and no clear end of the Iran war are clashing with GOP plans to win the November elections […]

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White House: ‘The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time’
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White House: ‘The U.S. Navy has not escorted a tanker or a vessel at this time’

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, not pictured, speak with the media after attending a meeting, marking the highest-level U.S. visit focused on energy policy to the OPEC nation in nearly three decades, as Washington conducts its first on-the-ground assessment of the oil industry it aims to help rebuild, in […]

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‘Forever war:’ Democrats rebut Trump’s assertion that Iran war nearing end
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‘Forever war:’ Democrats rebut Trump’s assertion that Iran war nearing end

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., from center left, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., Sen Jon. Ossoff, a D-Ga., and Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., during a State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senate Democrats on […]

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Russia told Trump they have not shared intelligence with Iran during war, Witkoff says
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Russia told Trump they have not shared intelligence with Iran during war, Witkoff says

Russian leaders told President Donald Trump during a phone call on Monday that they denied widely reported allegations that they are sharing intelligence with Iran during the United States’s war on that country, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said during a CNBC interview on Tuesday. “We can take them at their word,” Witkoff told CNBC’s […]

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10-year Treasury yield is little changed as oil tumbles after Trump warns Iran over Hormuz flows
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10-year Treasury yield is little changed as oil tumbles after Trump warns Iran over Hormuz flows

The 10-year Treasury yield was little changed on Tuesday as oil prices tumbled after President Donald Trump warned that Iran would be hit “TWENTY TIMES HARDER” if it attempted to halt shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell more than 1 basis point to 4.117%. The 30-year Treasury bond rose more […]

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Traders fear missing out on latest ‘Trump TACO rally’
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Traders fear missing out on latest ‘Trump TACO rally’

One thing became clear in Monday’s big market comeback: Traders don’t think this volatility will persist. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more than 200 points higher Monday, erasing an 886-point decline seen earlier in the day. The turnaround came after President Donald Trump signaled that the Iran war was nearing an end. The moves […]

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How the Iran war and rising energy prices are threatening semiconductor demand
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How the Iran war and rising energy prices are threatening semiconductor demand

SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chips, front, and a LPDDR5X CAMM2 memory module arranged at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images A prolonged conflict in the Middle East could impact the semiconductor industry’s access to key materials while rising costs could […]

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