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Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport was struck again in a Houthi attack that killed people and injured hundreds, and Bloomberg shows markets immediately reacting: stock and bond futures rose while oil fell, the Nasdaq extended its winning streak, and traders queued up US inflation data and central bank meetings. The clip ties that geopolitical shock to oil-market technical calls, Goldman raising its Brent forecast and the IEA urging diesel stock releases, while also reporting corporate headlines, from Satya Nadella’s call for an “emergency brake” on advanced AI systems to takeover chatter around Amazon and Nvidia. The combination explains why risk assets and energy prices moved in opposite directions in the same minutes.