Retail speculators have driven volatility in the oil market to a six-year high

Has oil become a "meme stock"? Private investors have broken pricing in the crude market

Netflix, Inc.

Oracle Corporation

Seagate Technology Holdings plc

Futures on U.S. stock indices and shares of the Asia-Pacific region collapsed amid a rally in oil prices The cost of Mark Brent at one point exceeded $100 per barrel. Donald Trump's administration has launched trade investigations against China, the EU and more than a dozen other economies, preparing the legal basis for new duties. Netflix is going to buy Ben Affleck's AI company, Bloomberg sources have learned. About these and other topics - in our review of key events for the morning of March 12.

Oil soared above $100 per barrel. Why didn't the IEA's plan to lower prices work?

Apple Inc.

Despite the similarities to the iPad, the foldable iPhone will run on standard iOS, not iPadOS

iPad interface, multitasking: Bloomberg has learned new details about the "foldable iPhone"

U.S. storage facilities are just over half full

US taps strategic oil reserve to drive down prices. How quotations react 

Morgan Stanley

That said, the bank did maintain its forecast for a rate cut at the Fed's June meeting

Fed may delay rate cuts due to oil shock, Morgan Stanley warned

Amazon.com, Inc.

Uber Technologies, Inc.

"Daughter" Amazon Zoox creates atypical robot cars - where passengers sit facing each other

'Pleasant surprise': Uber's stock rises - Amazon robotaxis will appear on its app

Stocks in the U.S. mostly fell in price on Wednesday, March 11, due to a renewed rise in oil prices, with Brent rising more than 5% to above $92 a barrel. This is despite the International Energy Agency announcing the release of 400 million barrels of oil, the largest use of reserves in history, CNBC wrote. The UK said at least three ships were damaged near the Strait of Hormuz, and oil storage facilities in Oman were attacked by drones.

Dow at its lowest since December, Brent above $92, Oracle holds Nasdaq: results of the 12th day of the war

Shopify Inc.

Snowflake Inc.

Box, Inc.

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc.

Dynatrace, Inc.

ServiceNow, Inc.

Datadog, Inc.

Software developer stocks bounce off lows

'Concerns have peaked': Wall Street considered - 'soft-apocalypse' complete

NVIDIA Corporation

Meta Platforms, Inc.

LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, Societe Europeenne

Tesla, Inc.

Investors' fear of AI's disruptive effect on traditional businesses and the war in Iran have driven down asset values

The fortunes of eight of the top 10 richest billionaires have fallen since the start of the year. What is it

The world can withstand a protracted war, but no one will benefit economically from it, says the expert 

"There will be a cold fall in the economy": Movchan on the risks of crisis due to the war in Iran

Shell plc

TotalEnergies SE

Liquefied natural gas supplier Shell has declared force majeure (a notice that provides for the release of the company from liability for failure to fulfill its contractual obligations) to its customers across Asia following the <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/ceny-na-gaz-v-evrope-podskocili-na-47-posle-priostanovki-spg-kompleksa-v-katare">shutdown</a> in Qatar amid hostilities of the LNG complex with a capacity of 77 million tons per year. This was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-totalenergies-others-declare-fm-their-clients-who-take-lng-qatar-sources-2026-03-11/">reported by</a> Reuters sources and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-11/shell-declares-force-majeure-on-lng-contracts-from-qatar">confirmed by</a> Bloomberg interlocutors.