Economics 14 August 2025

Barclays Stock Price Today: Shares Slip After 5% Jump as Oil Rebound Clouds BoE Outlook

Barclays Stock Price Today: Shares Slip After 5% Jump as Oil Rebound Clouds BoE Outlook

Barclays shares fell 1.05% to 413.4 pence in London on Wednesday after oil prices surged, cutting into the previous day’s 5.13% rally. Brent crude rose 3.8% to $91.11 a barrel as traders doubted the impact of an IEA reserve release amid the Iran war. Barclays reported UK card spending up just 1.1% in February and faces a £495 million exposure to collapsed lender Market Financial Solutions.
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Asteroid Mining

The New Gold Rush: How Asteroid Mining Could Create Trillionaires and Change Earth’s Future (2025 Update)

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned 250 grams of Bennu material in 2023, revealing water-rich clays and organics. The DART mission altered Dimorphos’s orbit by 32 minutes in 2022. Psyche launched in 2023 to a metal-rich asteroid valued at $10,000 quadrillion, with arrival set for 2026. China’s Tianwen-2 and AstroForge’s Odin and Vestri missions target asteroid sample return and mining by 2027.
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