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Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, one of the world's largest crude oil producers and exporters, with vast reserves and production across the kingdom.
SpaceX closed its Nasdaq debut on Friday, June 12, 2026, at $161.11 after opening just above $150, up nearly 20% on the largest IPO in stock market history. At that close, the shares SpaceX sold were worth about $14.5 billion more than it collected.
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A missile strike hit part of Saudi Aramco's headquarters, following Houthi attacks on Riyadh airport that killed at least 20, Fortune reported. Analysts it quotes say Washington has answered with words while the Nov. 3 midterms and gasoline prices weigh on any decision to strike back.
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Houthi forces reportedly hit Saudi Aramco's Dhahran headquarters after an assault that killed 13 and closed Riyadh's airport. Aramco says oil production and exports are unaffected; a prediction market puts a Saudi airspace closure by January 1 at 16.5%.
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IEA members agreed Oct. 7 to speed up the 400 million-barrel oil release and put diesel first, with public stocks near 1.1 billion barrels. Those stocks were above 1.2 billion in March, a fall of about 100 million, a quarter of the pledge.
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FAO's September food price index rose to 136.0, its highest since November 2022, while its cereal index climbed 17.2% from a year earlier. With Gulf urea supply cut and El Nino's harvest boost due to fade, the larger cost risk sits with next year's planting.
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Kpler says about 40% of Gulf crude now leaves without crossing Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, as exports regain prewar levels. Iran's own exports are blockaded to almost nothing, and it can still strike the onshore oil assets that now carry more of the flow.
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Gulf producers have restored about 80% of Hormuz crude flows with shuttle runs and a partly restarted Saudi pipeline, Seoul Economic Daily reports. Insurance on those runs and Iran's continued force in the strait keep prices on course to stay elevated through year-end.
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S&P 500 stocks hit a record on tech gains as Goldman Sachs forecast that Nvidia and Micron would supply a third of the index's third-quarter earnings growth. That leaves the season's headline growth rate dependent on two chip suppliers.
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Brent fell to $99.49 as Gulf crude flows outside Iran climbed past 81% of pre-war levels and the G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels. Rising tanker attacks near Hormuz keep the cost of shipping and insuring those barrels high.
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Saudi-backed Yemeni forces said they secured Bab el-Mandeb from the Houthis a day after launching their Dawn of Yemen offensive. Any easing of Red Sea shipping risk depends on that hold lasting, in an oil market where Iran still calls the Strait of Hormuz closed.
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Gulf producers are paying $30 million to $40 million a voyage to shuttle crude out of Hormuz, about $15 to $20 a barrel before insurance. They are taking it out of their own margins, and how long that lasts depends on repairs to a damaged Saudi pipeline.
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International oil prices have passed $100 while the US Navy narrows its Hormuz escort windows to two a day, and the overland pipeline that was the alternative to the strait is offline after a drone attack.
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The US national average hit a record $6.505 a gallon on September 21, about 50 cents above where it sat ten days earlier, with inventories 13% under the five-year average as harvest demand arrives.
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September exports came back above 4 million barrels a day from a decade low of 2.4 million in August. The entire Saudi export book now leaves through two Gulf terminals and a transfer anchorage inside the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump left Camp David early on Saturday after the first missile reached Riyadh since hostilities resumed. The contract on a US invasion of Iran by the end of 2026 went from 16 percent to 16.5 percent YES, a relative move of about 3 percent.
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After Riyadh promised a significant response to Houthi strikes on energy infrastructure, the chance of the Saudi oil pipeline restarting by September 30 fell from 54% to 34%. In odds terms that is a 56% cut.
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Hang Ten Systems has raised $85m across two seed rounds that closed thirty-five days apart, the second larger than the first, priced on enterprise contracts the company describes only as multi-million-dollar.
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Vishal Sikka's four-month-old startup added $53 million five weeks after a $32 million seed. It says two to four engineers can deliver what once took about 30 people, with customers or third parties still running the final quality checks.
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Caracas puts the bill above $100 billion for reserves the White House says more than double America's, a stock claim with no schedule attached while the only new barrels come from Chevron tuning old wells.
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Cryptobriefing.com, citing Reuters, reports Anthropic is in early talks to raise up to $100 billion at roughly $2 trillion before the November midterms, with Nvidia weighing $10 billion of that book, the same sum it committed to Anthropic's compute in 2025.
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