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Now, let's take a look at some of the stocks on the move to Daniel obviously, I'm James Wilcock and when with Caroline Hecker and we are joined as ever at Bloomberg Reports to cloim Melee, let's start play with some of the moves for equinor coming hot on the heels of a new deal.
Yeah, so we were seeing a big drop in the oil price today because it looks like we might get a piece still in Iran, and so we are seeing some of those oil majors reacting to that. Of course, so Trump said that an agreement was closed and that he wouldn't strike Iran, and so that came just hours after he said that he would actually hit the Islamic Republic very hard, very hard in all caps, and also
threatened to seize its oil infrastructure. Iran has not confirmed anything about this potential peace still, and of course there's been a hope of a deal quite a few times since the war started a few months ago. So there is nothing that is really set in stone yet, but the markets reacted very strongly regardless, and we have oil really plunging, and then in turn, of course, that is leading all of this oil majors down. So Equinor in the red today the one that is doing the worst.
But then we've also got Shell, any BP, all of those names also in the red. So there's obviously been quite a lot of up and down in that sector as we've seen tensions ease and then flow up again. But overall, since the beginning of the war, those companies have been doing pretty well. You know, Shell is about eighteen percent year today, Equinor up about forty seven percent. But today yeah, seeing a little bit of weakness as
maybe that piece deal will actually happen. Yeah. Well, speaking of which, it's also affecting other parts of the market.
You think about airline and travel and leisure. Talk to us about Ryana.
Yeah, So usually when we get those oil majors down, we get those airlines up, and so we are seeing that happening today. Ryanair doing very well, very much in the green. Of course, the enter the conflict would mean the reopening of the Strait of Hormus, and then that would potentially mean that then a normalization of oil flows over time, and following on from that, normalization of fuel costs, and so of course that would be great for all
of those airlines. Obviously that would take a while, even if we do get a deal this weekend. You know, the output would need to be to need to ram back up some. A lot of the facilities in the Middle East, the oil facilities have also been damaged, so it could really take months or years to get back
on track. But there is still quite a lot of optimism in that travel sector this morning, and I seeing Ryanair a two E Leftanza, even some of the airport operators themselves, so you know, companies like Aeroboda, Bari or for Airport which operates the Frankfurt Airport, all of those names in the green this morning. But again it is worth noting that those fuel costs will not come down overnight even if we do get that piece still this weekend.
And detergent Maker Bride have plunged this morning. Why have they been cleaned out?
So yeah, I mean this is very much still within this war theme. So McBride is an example of how the Iran war has really affected so many different sectors in both you know, major companies like Shell and Luftanza, but also there's much smaller firms. So McBride makes cleaning products, as you said, and it's down massively today because it cut its guidance because of the higher costs from the
Iran war. So you know, cleaning products are made with raw materials that are derived from the petrochemical industry, and they are also packaged in plastic, which is also derived from that industry, and then they need to be shipped and those ships obviously need oil to transport goods, so that means across the entire supply chain, McBride is facing all of that cost pressure, and so it said that it did not expect cost to rise further or to decline any time soon, so at least it's steady, but
of course it does have a financial impact and it expects profit to be down as much as ten percent and lower than expectations, and so of course shares plunged as a result.
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