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- Ex-Dutch football star Johan Neeskens dies
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- Masood, Abdullah centuries lift Pakistan to 328-4 in first England Test
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- Tunisia's President Saied set for landslide election win
- Barca hoping to return to Camp Nou 'by end of year'
- Trump to open second golf course at Scotland resort in summer 2025
- Super-sub Jhon Duran rewarded with new Aston Villa deal
- US duo win Nobel for gene regulation breakthrough
- Masood hits first ton for four years to power Pakistan to 233-1
- Fritz wins delayed match to reach Shanghai Masters third round
- Naomi Osaka pulls out of Japan Open with back injury
- Weather may delay launch of mission to study deflected asteroid
- China to flesh out economic stimulus plans after bumper rally
- Artist Marina Abramovic hopes first China show offers tech respite
- Asian markets track Wall St rally on US jobs data
- Pakistan 122-1 at lunch in first England Test
- Kazakhs approve plan for first nuclear power plant
- World marks anniversary of Oct. 7 attack on Israel
- 'Second family': tennis stars hunt winning formula with new coaches
- Philippines, South Korea agree to deepen maritime cooperation
- Mexico mayor murdered days after taking office
- Sardinia's sheep farmers battle bluetongue as climate warms
- Japan govt admits doctoring 'untidy' cabinet photo
- Israel marks first anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attack
- Darvish tames Ohtani as Padres thrash Dodgers
- Asian markets track Wall St rally on jobs data
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Oil prices jump, stocks mixed with spotlight on surging inflation
Oil prices rallied Wednesday, adding to soaring inflation concerns, while stock markets diverged.
Crude futures jumped 2.5 percent with Brent North Sea headed towards $120 per barrel.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Wednesday warned that a ban on Russian oil and gas imports over the Ukraine war would drive the world's energy markets to a "collapse".
"It is absolutely obvious that without Russian hydrocarbons, if sanctions are introduced, there will be a collapse of the oil and gas markets," Novak told Russia's lower house State Duma as reported by Russian news agencies.
"The rise in energy prices may be unpredictable," Novak added.
On stock markets, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index was up after official data showed UK annual inflation had surged to 6.2 percent last month, the highest level in 30 years.
While inflation increases company costs it can boost their revenues by sizeable amounts.
The British data were published ahead of a UK budget update Wednesday that could ease a cost-of-living crisis for millions of Britons as inflation rockets worldwide largely owing to soaring energy prices.
"Today's data confirm a worsening squeeze on consumer incomes," said Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK.
"These price rises were dominated by increases in energy, and we expect further rises this year as global energy, food, and other commodities markets are impacted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
Elsewhere, eurozone stock markets fell Wednesday after Asia's top indices closed higher.
Wall Street had rallied Tuesday on optimism that the Federal Reserve's plan to hike interest rates would help to bring inflation under control.
While there remains plenty of concern about the war in Ukraine, analysts said some confidence had seeped back into trading floors as investors bet on consumer resilience and economies continue to reopen.
Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell this week said that the US central bank was prepared to act more aggressively on lifting borrowing costs should American inflation -- already at a 40-year high -- not fall quickly enough.
Officials lifted US rates last week by a quarter of a point but some have advocated bigger increases, a view Powell suggested he was open to believing that the world's biggest economy was strong enough to withstand such a move.
- Key figures around 1130 GMT -
Brent North Sea crude: UP 2.5 percent at $118.38 per barrel
West Texas Intermediate: UP 2.5 at $111.95 per barrel
London - FTSE 100: UP 0.2 percent at 7,493.72 points
Frankfurt - DAX: DOWN 0.7 percent at 14,379.44
Paris - CAC 40: DOWN 0.6 percent at 6,620.93
EURO STOXX 50: DOWN 0.9 percent at 3,892.71
Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 3.0 percent at 28,040.16 (close)
Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: UP 1.2 percent at 22,154.08 (close)
Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.3 percent at 3,271.03 (close)
New York - DOW: UP 0.7 percent at 34,807.46 (close)
Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.0992 from $1.1033 late Tuesday
Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.3208 from $1.3260
Euro/pound: UP at 83.22 pence from 83.16 pence
Dollar/yen: UP at 120.96 yen from 120.82 yen
O.M.Souza--AMWN