2026-03-05
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If oil tankers can't get through the straight of her moves, we could see some crude energy prices.
It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Leanna Byrne.
We'll hear from one migrant worker living in Dubai and why TikTok won't be using end-to-end encryption.
It's day five of the US-Israel war with Iran and global markets are catching their breath.
US and European indices are generally up but earlier today Asian stocks took a battering.
Trading was even paused in Bangkok and Seoul as circuit breakers were triggered to stem traders losses.
To digest all of this we have Russ Mould, Investment Director at AJ Bell.
Russ explain this to me, why are investors hopeful all of a sudden?
I think they're hopeful at the moment and that sounds dramatic with oil up around a sixth