COMMODITIES

Brent crude futures were higher at $3.13, or 2.7%, at $118.61 a barrel at 1100 GMT. Prices had earlier dropped to a low of $114.45. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI)

Gold futures were under 0.40% to $1,935.40 by 12:24 AM ET (4:24 AM GMT), falling about 2.4% in the week to date. Tiger Brokers chief strategy officer Michael McCarthy told

Corn and soybeans dropped on worries that demand from top consumer China could reconcile because of increasing coronavirus cases. The most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday inflicted an immediate ban on Russian oil. Talk that Ukraine was no longer seeking NATO membership behind some news reports this week on the