Traders braced for a volatile and risk-off open to the week for global stock markets after the US and Israel attacked Iran, with the focus turning to energy and defense companies as potential havens amid expected losses in airlines and other consumer sectors.

The escalating Mideast war is testing global market resiliency anew as investors brace for the open of stock, bond and energy markets Sunday evening in New York.

The head of South Africa’s budget office resigned last week, after helping the National Treasury stabilize public debt.

The oil market’s nightmare scenario came true this weekend. Now the race is on to deal with it.

The United Arab Emirates said its two key markets will close for two days of the week, avoiding a possible meltdown after the Gulf country was repeatedly hit as Iran retaliated against US-Israeli airstrikes.

“When you're dealing with opaque illiquid assets like credit, that's a place that one would clearly have to look.” Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Bloomberg’s David Gura discussed the risks of private credit and being cautious when dealing with investors’ money. Subscribe to the Big Take podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or iHeart (Source: Bloomberg)

Goldman Sachs’s former CEO Lloyd Blankfein sits down with David Gura, host of the Big Take Podcast and Bloomberg This Weekend, to talk about the risks of private credit, what he thinks about Goldman's reaction to its former top lawyer, Kathy Ruemmler's ties to Epstein and how he thinks companies – and executives – should and shouldn’t engage with politics. Subscribe to the Big Take podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or iHeart. (Source: Bloomberg)

US Senator Mark Warner of Virginia says he was briefed on plans for the attack on Iran and that President Trump had been considering several options. He speaks with David Gura and Christina Ruffini on 'Bloomberg This Weekend.' (Source: Bloomberg)

The US dollar’s traditional role as the currency of choice in times of uncertainty is increasingly in question, leading to a weak currency, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel.

US Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat and ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticizes President Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes on Iran that have so far resulted in three U.S. service members killed and five wounded. Senator Warner questions why President Trump initiated the attacks without congressional authorization, despite no imminent threat to the US. He speaks on "Bloomberg This Weekend." (Source: Bloomberg)

Jen Gavito, former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and Senior Adviser at The Cohen Group, discussed the differing diplomatic perspectives following recent Iranian attacks on Gulf States. She speaks with David Gura and Christina Ruffini on “This Weekend.” (Source: Bloomberg)

With Big Tech no longer leading stocks higher, traders are eyeing newly listed contracts to trade short-term opportunities in some of the biggest names.

Bloomberg Intelligence's Mike McGlone explains what the US and Israeli strikes on Iran mean for oil and commodities prices. He speaks on "Bloomberg This Weekend." Iran has no intention to close the Strait of Hormuz and has kept it open so far, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview to Al Jazeera TV. (Source: Bloomberg)

After US attacks on Iran, Republican US Representative Michael McCaul of Texas says the Iranian people will have a chance to take back their country. He speaks with David Gura and Christina Ruffini on 'Bloomberg This Weekend.' (Source: Bloomberg)

For years, retail investors were crypto’s most reliable fuel — the dip-buyers, the memecoin speculators, the momentum traders that powered every rally. Now they’re moving on, stalling the demand engine that digital assets have depended on for a decade.

The Gulf states have faced an unprecedented wave of missile and drone attacks, as Iran retaliates for US and Israeli strikes which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Joumanna Bercetche explains. (Source: Bloomberg)

After US and Israeli attacks on Iran, Colonel Wayne Sanders looks at the next potential military steps in the country. Sanders, a senior defense research analyst for Bloomberg Intellilgence, speaks with David Gura and Christina Ruffini on 'Bloomberg This Weekend. (Source: Bloomberg)

Mark Esper, former US Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, says US attacks could render Iran defenseless. He speaks with David Gura and Christina Ruffini on 'Bloomberg This Weekend' (Source: Bloomberg)

Guinea has signed a $143 million memorandum of understanding with the US to boost health systems in the West African nation, Finance Minister Mariama Ciré Sylla said in a video posted on Facebook.

The world’s largest container carriers are rerouting ships to avoid the Persian Gulf, as a widening military conflict pitting the US-Israeli alliance against Iran threatens to disrupt global merchandise trade.

Home prices have doubled over the past decade, first-time buyers are older than ever, and housing affordability has become a political flashpoint on both sides of the Atlantic. With construction productivity stagnant for decades, policymakers and investors are looking abroad to Sweden, where factory-built modular housing is far more common, to see whether rethinking how homes are built could lower costs, boost supply, and reshape the economics of housing. (Source: Bloomberg)

Lloyd Blankfein, who led Goldman Sachs Group Inc. through the 2008 financial crisis, is now ringing alarm bells as Wall Street steers cash from US savers into its latest lending binge: private credit.

Col. Wayne Sanders (Ret.), Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Defense Analyst, discussed the potential duration and dynamics of the ongoing US and Israel strikes against Iran. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nancy Youssef, National Security Writer at The Atlantic, said recent US-Iran negotiations mediated by Oman exposed sharp differences over both substance and trust. She speaks on Bloomberg's "This Weekend" with David Gura and Christina Ruffini. (Source: Bloomberg)

OPEC+ agreed to resume oil production increases at a slightly accelerated pace as a conflict sparked by US-Israeli strikes on Iran threatened to bolster a rally in crude prices.

As the latest earnings season wraps, investors could be forgiven for missing some of the fireworks, what with AI’s stranglehold on the market narrative, geopolitical angst and renewed trade uncertainty.

The fast‑moving conflict across the Middle East is heightening investor anxiety and strengthening the case for safe‑haven trades such as Treasuries, gold and the Swiss franc.

Ali Khamenei, Iran’s anti-Western supreme leader who dominated the Islamic Republic for more than three decades, has died at 86. Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin explains. (Source: Bloomberg)

US payrolls growth probably settled back in February after the strongest month of hiring in a year, returning to a more moderate and likely sustainable pace of hiring.

President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran creates new risks for a significant chunk of the world’s oil supply.