Trump sends mixed messages; stocks recover, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to the free edition of the world in brief from The Economist. |
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| 0:29.5 | free edition. |
| 0:35.1 | This is the world in brief from The Economist. |
| 0:41.7 | Our top stories. |
| 0:44.6 | Donald Trump said that the Iran war would be over very soon, but simultaneously insisted America |
| 0:51.7 | was going to go further. |
| 0:53.7 | He vowed to hit Iran harder if it tried to block oil supplies |
| 0:57.6 | and said his administration might lift oil-related sanctions |
| 1:01.7 | on certain countries to reduce prices. |
| 1:06.0 | The comments followed a statement he gave to CBS News |
| 1:09.6 | claiming the war was, quote, very complete, pretty much. |
| 1:15.8 | Brent Crude, the global oil benchmark, fell below $90 a barrel and Wall Street stocks steadied after |
| 1:23.4 | Mr. Trump's comments. The SMP 500 mostly recovered after falling by more than 1%. |
| 1:30.6 | The oil price had reached almost $120 after Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries |
| 1:38.8 | announced that they had begun cutting production following Iran's effective closure of the straight-off Hormuz. |
| 1:47.3 | Anthropic is suing the Pentagon for labelling it a supply chain risk. |
| 1:52.5 | The designation, which blocks the AI firm from defence work, has never been applied to an |
| 1:58.5 | American company before. Pete Hegseth, America's Secretary of War, blacklisted Anthropic last Thursday |
| 2:05.8 | after the company refused to remove limits on its technology being used for autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance. |
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