Current price of oil as of October 21, 2026
At 8 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $110.74 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s a decrease of…
Trump’s remarkable mess on electric vehicles: How he made them more expensive and harder to find just as he went to war on Iran
Within three months of the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, the average price of gasoline for American drivers climbed from US$2.94 to $4.35 a gallon.…
Is Anthropic the IPO market’s last hope for 2026? The clock is ticking
Morgan Chittum here. More bad news in the IPO market this week. On Monday, Chinese manufacturer Kepuni Holdings withdrew plans for a Nasdaq listing that had been expected to raise…
Tech futures rise in premarket trading as SpaceX stock rockets overnight—and Wells Fargo’s ‘buy’ signal is triggered
Traders woke up in a cheerful mood today, shaking off the riots in France and the rising price of oil. Asia was mixed, but the European indexes rose in early…
The ex-Kellogg CEO who learned he had ADHD at 65 says it had upsides in the corner office
In today’s CEO Daily: Carlos Gutierrez reflects on his late-in-life diagnosis. The big leadership story: The non-gamer CEO racing to save Microsoft’s Xbox. The markets: Up in the U.S. and…
Databricks sets sights on Abu Dhabi as Middle East growth takes off
Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. We’ll be covering: Databricks to open Abu Dhabi office in regional push Space42 looks to scale growth and footprint Abu Dhabi Department of…
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s 5-step plan to make healthcare affordable targets drug middlemen’s ‘contractual terrorism’
Mark Cuban says many of the customers flooding his low-cost pharmacy have something in common: They already have insurance. And they’re still better off paying cash. “They come to us…
The Bezos Earth Fund has given away $2.4 billion. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos’ latest $100M bet is saving species on the edge of extinction
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are putting $100 million behind the idea that the world’s most endangered animals and plants can still be pulled back from extinction. The Bezos…
‘Tap-dancing through a minefield’: Elon Musk’s $3.5 trillion Tesla-SpaceX merger talks expose his power—and scant accountability
Elon Musk said Tuesday that independent directors at Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to explore combining the two companies—a deal that, at current market values, would create a…
Powerful new AI models are fueling a growing wave of cyberattacks, experts say
Starting on Sept. 25, a hacker set loose an army of AI agents that attempted to break into over 1,200 websites over the following few weeks—autonomously, with no additional work…