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Oil futures drop for a third day despite a below-expected buildup in US crude inventories

Oil futures are heading for their third red day this morning in early commodity trading action despite a slower than expected inventory buildup in the United States, with analysts citing an upcoming nuclear deal between the US and Iran as a potential negative catalyst for crude prices. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its…

How inflation affects stocks and why the markets are worried about it?

Yesterday, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the highest annualized inflation in the country since the days of the financial crisis and the markets have reacted quite negatively to the development even though economists have warned that this was a plausible risk resulting from the government’s unprecedented intervention to support the economy during the…