Oil dips after a White House official says the U.S. and Iran are close to a temporary peace agreement. Vice President JD Vance says he feels ‘pretty good’ about how negotiations are progressing. Today’s fall in crude prices are close to 20 per cent on the month. Equities in the U.S. have ended a stellar month of May while European markets lag behind. A.I. giant Anthropic builds up its latest round of funding by almost 200 per cent, bringing its market value to just short of $1tn to overtake OpenAI and become the most valuable A.I. start-up on the planet. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin suffers a major setback in its bid to compete with SpaceX as a test rocket explodes into a gigantic fireball on lift-off.

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Oil prices whipsaw with Brent up almost 3 per cent following an Iranian missile and drone attack on a U.S. air base in Kuwait. The strikes were followed by the U.S. targeting of a ground control station in Bandar-e-Abbas just hours after optimistic peace talks comments from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had pushed crude lower. Federal Reserve governors Neel Kashkari and Austan Goolsbee warn CNBC rising inflation and price pressures are not easing. Global equity markets fall into the red again following yesterday's record session on Wall Street. The EU is reportedly looking to decrease its dependency on American technology and champion European companies. Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch tells CNBC he welcomes the bloc’s direction.

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SK Hynix becomes the latest company to be valued at $1tn due to investor enthusiasm for A.I.-linked semi-conductor stocks. Iran accuses the U.S. of breaching the ceasefire with President Trump set to hold a cabinet meeting with high-stake peace negotiations ongoing. New car registrations in the EU surge 5.1 per cent with high fuel costs prompting renewed interest in EVs. However, Ferrari share plummet as its first EV offering, the Luce, is widely criticized. BP ousts its chairman Albert Manifold after less than a year in the position amid concerns over his conduct, governing standards and oversight.

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U.S.-Iran peace talks remain undecided, keeping oil markets volatile. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is positive a good deal will be reached but settling all details will require more time. The UK market returns after the spring bank holiday while in Europe the Stoxx 600 hits its highest level in more than two months, clawing back losses since the start of the Gulf conflict. Ferrari launches its first ever EV, the Luce, which is co-designed by former Apple CDO Jony Ive. We speak to CEO Benedetto Vigna who says the move is a daring new direction for the Prancing Horse.

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European equities look set to enjoy a day in the green following the Dow’s record close yesterday. Bond yields also dip slightly after a volatile week. Crude prices inch up as Washington D.C. and Tehran remain at loggerheads over reopening the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio slams reported suggestions of a permanent Iranian toll system in the Gulf which would make any diplomatic agreement ‘unfeasible’. Luxury cosmetics giant Estée Lauder sees shares surge in after-hours trade after merger talks with Puig collapse. The tie-up would have created a $40bn beauty titan. And the White House hits pause on an EO on A.I. as President Trump said certain aspects of the plan could hamper American leadership in the sector.

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Nvidia notches another stellar quarter with revenue soaring by 85 per cent to more than $80bn. The chip giant has also announced the same amount in share buy-backs. CEO Jensen Huang tells our colleagues Stateside that demand in the new era of A.I. is ‘sky-high’. SpaceX files its prospectus ahead of what will be the biggest listing of all time on Wall Street. The company is eyeing future data centres to be built in space and a million-resident colony on Mars. In further IPO news, OpenAI is also reportedly aiming at a listing as soon as next week in what could be a trillion-dollar offering. Stakeholder Softbank sees shares soar in the Asian session as a result.

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Fixed income continues to sell off across Europe which focuses investors’ minds on UK April inflation. Crude prices slip on news that several tankers were able to exit the Strait of Hormuz. There are mixed messages from Washington with U.S. President Trump warning of renewed strikes on Iran but Vice-President JD Vance claiming progress was being made in talks with Tehran. In tech news, Google unveils its latest A.I. model in a bid to keep pace with competitors but today’s attention turns to Nvidia which is expected to post a near-80 per cent boost in revenues when it reports after the bell today.

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We are live in Paris at the G7 finance ministers’ meeting where European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis tells us that Europe is facing a stagflationary shock amid the energy crisis while French finance minister Roland Lescure says lawmakers need to work to reassure bond markets. Crude prices fall slightly after U.S. President Trump says he postponed fresh strikes on Iran, citing diplomatic progress on ending the conflict with Iran. Elon Musk loses his case against OpenAI after jurors ruled the Tesla CEO had filed his suit too late to proceed. Musk had claimed the ChatGPT maker had violated an agreement to only run the AI start-up as a charitable non-profit organisation.

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