After powerful hurricane Ida swept into the Gulf of Mexico, oil prices rose about one percent, forcing authorities to close and evacuate hundreds of offshore oil platforms.

In a crisis of lack of e-chips, the crisis in the automotive sector is worsening globally and has an increasingly severe impact directly on the volume of production and, by extension, on the price of cars and spare parts.

In a move to circumvent international sanctions, by the beginning of September, Iran's ban on digital currency mining will come to an end.

For its growing activity in automotive components, two well - known sources said U.S. officials approved license applications for hundreds of millions of dollars to buy chips for China's black - listed Huawei Communications.