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TEHRAN, IRAN – JANUARY 09: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY – MANDATORY CREDIT – ‘IRANIAN LEADER PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT’ – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) Iranâs Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting with residents of Qom on the anniversary of the uprising against the ousted Shah regime that began in this city in January 1977, addressed the events that escalated last night due to economic problems in the country on January 09, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Iran edges closer to a revolution that would reshape the world

By Paul Wallace, Golnar Motevalli, and others

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pavilion in the exhibition hall at the African Energy Week (AEW) conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. Texas Senator Ted Cruz pledged deeper American investment in Africa’s energy industry, casting the US as a strategic alternative to China. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

OPEC+ sticks with plan to keep oil flow steady amid turmoil

By Grant Smith, Ben Bartenstein, and others

Nvidia H100 chips inside a server room at the Yotta Data Services Pvt. data center, in Navi Mumbai, India, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Yotta Data Services is buying thousands of Nvidia chips to offer AI capabilities in India. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images

U.S. mulls letting UAE buy over a million leading Nvidia chips

By MacKenzie Hawkins, Jenny Leonard, and others

Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud arrives for the 186th Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in Vienna on June 3, 2023. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Higher gas prices could soon hit U.S. drivers as Saudi Arabia doubles down on oil production cuts

By Grant Smith, Fiona MacDonald, and others

AUXERRE, FRANCE – MAY 21: Lionel Messi of PSG, left Gideon Mensah of Auxerre during the Ligue 1 Uber Eats match between AJ Auxerre (AJA) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at Stade de l’Abbe Deschamps on May 21, 2023 in Auxerre, France. (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia wants to pay soccer star Lionel Messi a reported $400m a year as part of soft power push into sports, art and music

By Sam Dagher, Ben Bartenstein, and others

Gautam Adani, billionaire and chairman of Adani Group, during an event at the Port of Haifa in Haifa, Israel, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Adani, the Indian billionaire whose business empire was rocked by allegations of fraud by short seller Hindenburg Research, said his company will make more investments in Israel. Photographer: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Inside the selloff in Adani Group stocks that wiped out market value of more than $80 billion in a week: ‘The dust is not yet settled’

By P R Sanjai, Ben Bartenstein, and others

Secretary General of OPEC Haitham al-Ghais, speaks at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on November 16, 2022. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

OPEC+ opts to ‘hunker down’ amid surging volatility and market uncertainty, holds steady on oil production

By Salma El Wardany, Grant Smith, and others

A representative greets an attendee on the Bitica Coin booth during the Dubai Crypto Expo at the Festival Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. An already bad year for cryptocurrencies took another turn for the worse after a $568 million hack affecting Binance Coin became the latest in a string of security incidents to buffet digital assets. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Companies lured to ‘crypto hub’ Dubai have regrets thanks to FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried

By Ben Bartenstein and Bloomberg

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman.

OPEC tries to keep oil prices high and cuts output by 2 million barrels in a move that Biden calls ‘unnecessary’

By Salma El Wardany, Grant Smith, and others

Zhao Changpeng, founder and chief executive officer of Binance, speaks at the Blockchain Week Summit in Paris, France, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. The three-day conference brings together the brightest minds, business professionals and leading investors to help you navigate the blockchain industry, according to the event’s organizers. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bankers following Binance boss CZ are turning Dubai into the ‘Wall Street of Crypto’

By Ben Bartenstein and Bloomberg

Zhao Changpeng, founder and chief executive officer of Binance, speaks at the Blockchain Week Summit in Paris, France, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. The three-day conference brings together the brightest minds, business professionals and leading investors to help you navigate the blockchain industry, according to the event’s organizers. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Binance will cut back services in Russia as sanctions finally hit crypto trading

By Ben Bartenstein, Jake Rudnitsky, and others

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, MBS, Saudi Arabian politician who is the crown prince, deputy prime minister, and minister of defense of Saudi Arabia

Saudi prince wants Wall Street to help fund $500 billion plan for a floating Silicon Valley in the desert

By Vivian Nereim, Matthew Martin, and others