Qatari liquefied natural gas producer QatarEnergy will be forced to declare force majeure on long-term contracts for up to five years due to Iran's attack on its largest LNG plant. This was stated by QatarEnergy head and Qatar's energy minister Saad al-Qaabi in an <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iran-attack-damage-wipes-out-17-qatars-lng-capacity-three-five-years-qatarenergy-2026-03-19/">interview with</a> Reuters. According to the top manager, this will affect supplies to Italy, Belgium, South Korea and China. QatarEnergy has previously declared force majeure - but for a short period of time, now it will increase, al-Kaabi noted.

QatarEnergy warned of force majeure on LNG contracts for up to 5 years due to attacks

Rivian Automotive, Inc.

Tesla, Inc.

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Uber has struck a $1.25 billion deal with Rivian to create a fleet of unmanned robot cabs

Bank of America Corporation

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft

Aegon Ltd.

The day before, the bank's strategists recommended clients to short the securities of 17 European financial companies, including Deutsche Bank, because of the risks to which they are exposed due to the private lending sector

BofA withdraws advice to bet against EU financial firms due to 'errors of fact'

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Tech giant loses profits in retail 'price wars' but plans fivefold growth in cloud revenues

Alibaba's securities have the strongest collapse in a year. Why doesn't the market believe in the "Chinese Amazon"?

Air Astana

Jet fuel prices have risen more than 50 percent since the war in the Middle East began

Air Astana to raise ticket prices due to rising fuel prices 

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. may ease sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea in the coming days to ease pressure from rising energy prices caused by the war in the Middle East. He <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/bessent-rules-out-government-intervention-oil-futures-market-during-iran-war">said</a> this in an interview with Fox Business television channel.

The U.S. allowed the easing of sanctions against Iranian oil. Brent fell to $109

Venture Global, Inc.

Cheniere Energy, Inc.

Equinor ASA

Norwegian Equinor, a major European producer of natural gas, also grew its securities

Shares of U.S. gas exporters jump after damage to Qatar LNG plant

U.S. Treasury bonds have fallen in price and traders have stopped pledging the likelihood of a U.S. interest rate cut this year. Such sentiment in the bond market Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/bond-traders-no-longer-price-in-any-chance-of-fed-cut-in-2026">recorded</a> after the Bank of England fueled concerns that global central banks may soon have to act to rein in inflation. Meanwhile, some bond market participants are already hedging against a possible rate hike in the coming months, the agency said.

The market is no longer mortgaging the likelihood of a Fed rate cut this year

Brent crude oil slowed at the opening of the US trading session and is trading at nearly $113 a barrel - after an intraday high above $119

US stocks continued to fall: investors are pricing in a "prolonged energy shock"

This is the sixth consecutive time the ECB has made such a decision

The European Central Bank, following the Fed, kept rates unchanged amid the war

"We're moving from a supply chain problem to a potential supply problem itself - that's a big difference," Pickering Energy Partners said

'Turning point': analysts warn of new energy shock over war

Perfect Corp.

Shares of Perfect Corp., a small-cap developer of AI-powered beauty solutions and a partner to global brands including L’Oréal, surged nearly 30% on Wednesday after the company <a href="https://ir.perfectcorp.com/news-and-events/news-releases/news-details/2026/Perfect-Announces-Receipt-of-Preliminary-Non-Binding-Going-Private-Proposal/default.aspx">said</a>&nbsp;it had received a preliminary <a href="https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001899830/a78d3f1c-b1a9-470f-b4c6-7f9fc0aec3c0.pdf">buyout offer</a>&nbsp;from Taiwan-based software developer CyberLink and founder Alice Chang.

Stanley Druckenmiller