ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 The world of business spent this week confronting two realities at once. The first was exuberance. Artificial intelligence returned to the center of the market, pushing semiconductor companies higher, lifting the Nasdaq to a record and propelling AMD beyond a valuation once reserved for only the largest corporations on…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 This was the week when several assumptions underpinning the global economy became harder to defend. Investors who spent years waiting for cheaper money watched the Federal Reserve raise interest rates for the first time in more than three years. Japan pushed borrowing costs to their highest level…
ABE NEWS | September 15, 2026 For much of the past few years, the global economy has been waiting for relief. Inflation had retreated from its worst levels, businesses had adjusted to a world of higher interest rates, and investors were increasingly looking toward the moment when borrowing costs could finally begin moving lower….
ABE NEWS | September 12, 2026 Saudi Arabia has spent decades preparing for a crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. The kingdom knew that concentrating so much of its oil-export infrastructure around one of the world’s narrowest and most politically sensitive waterways created an obvious vulnerability. If tankers could no longer move safely through…
ABE NEWS | September 6, 2026 OPEC+ has decided to keep its oil-production policy unchanged for October, pausing further increases after months of gradually restoring supply while escalating tensions involving Iran continue to disrupt one of the world’s most important energy corridors. The decision was taken Sunday by the group of producers that has been…
ABE NEWS | September 5, 2026 The war between the United States and Iran has entered another dangerous phase. U.S. forces struck three Iranian crude-oil tankers on Saturday after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships, according to U.S. Central Command. The American vessels — an aircraft carrier…
ABE NEWS | Week in Business | Friday, September 4, 2026 Welcome to ABE NEWS Week in Business — our Friday look back at the companies, markets, money and economic developments that defined the week. And this week delivered something remarkable. Nearly everywhere you looked, businesses were confronting the same fundamental question: How much…
ABE NEWS | September 4, 2026 Africa could be days away from one of the biggest stock-market listings in its history. Nigeria’s Dangote Group is preparing to sell shares in the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, the enormous Lagos-based industrial complex built by billionaire entrepreneur Aliko Dangote. According to people with direct knowledge of the transaction,…
ABE NEWS | September 1, 2026 Russia’s oil industry — one of the financial engines that has powered the country for decades and helped Moscow sustain more than four years of war in Ukraine — is facing mounting pressure. A Russian government draft economic forecast reviewed by Reuters has cut the country’s expected 2026…
ABE NEWS | September 1, 2026 Two enormous oil tankers carrying millions of barrels of Saudi crude have been struck by unknown projectiles while attempting to leave the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, marking another dangerous escalation around the waterway that sits at the centre of the world’s energy system. The attacks…
