Investment banks have instructed employees to work from home
The central bank aims for 2% inflation, though it has not met that goal for the past five years
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has said the company has "no choice" but to challenge in court the Pentagon's formal designation of the artificial intelligence firm as a risk to US national security.
The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, jumped 8.5 per cent as the US-Israel war upended the world's energy and transport sectors.
