Las Bolsas han encontrado un respiro en el último momento del viernes, pero no el suficiente para borrar las pérdidas de una semana marcada por la escalada del petróleo. El barril de brent alcanza ya los 116, lo que supone el nivel más alto desde abril, ante la falta de avances que permitan vislumbrar el final de la guerra en Oriente Próximo. La subida del crudo añade presión a unos índices que también acusan las dudas sobre la rentabilidad de la mutimillonaria inversión en inteligencia artificial y la crisis de la deuda francesa. El resultado es una semana con una corrección a nivel global en la que el castigo se extiende a ambos lados del Atlántico y también a Asia.

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Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching

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The mother of the youngest alleged victim of Alan Jones continued to seek advice from the broadcaster after the teenager was allegedly indecently assaulted at Jones’s Fitzroy Falls farm, a Sydney court has heard.

The divorced mother told the Downing Centre court she had developed a pattern of not trusting herself and she continued her correspondence with Jones because: “I knew he knew about everything; he had an opinion about everything.

Datacenter and chip costs fueled sharp decrease in AI sector although non-AI stocks still had a strong showing

The latest shudder for stocks in the AI industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday, while oil prices hit their highest levels since May on worries about the war with Iran.

The S&P 500 fell 1.2% for its worst day since July, while the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.6%. The weakness for tech stocks was so overwhelming that it masked strength for the rest of the US market, in which the majority of stocks actually rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 11 points, or less than 0.1%.