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St Valentine’s Day chocolates are always a great way to show how deep your love is. But this year, it might just also show how deep your pockets are!

The increasing impact of extreme weather on producers has caused coffee prices to skyrocket.

Serbia is the latest to join the boycott, a trend that started in Croatia and quickly caught on in other Western Balkan countries.

The price of bitcoin and other digital assets has soared since Trump won the US elections. A lavish “Crypto Ball” ahead of Trump’s inauguration sold tickets for thousands of dollars. Now, the mood is souring.

Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre is left heading a minority government after coalition partner pulls out over EU market rules it says make it impossible to shield citizens from high electricity prices.

Addressing the World Economic Forum, the US president pledged to apply pressure on OPEC, claiming that a drop in the price of oil would end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The euro has rebounded against the US dollar over the past two trading days on news that the US president-elect may consider a gradual pace of hiking tariffs. However, the trend may be vulnerable to the upcoming US CPI, which is expected to remain sticky in December.

The copper price has been on the rise in 2025, reaching a three-week high amid robust demand in China, given Beijing’s ongoing stimulus measures. However, Trump’s tariffs are expected to cap the uptrend later in the year.

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden have demanded a revision of the price cap on Russian seaborne oil. The cap was set in late 2022 at $60 per barrel and has remained untouched since then.

Crude oil prices rose to a three-week high amid mounting concerns over supply disruptions and increasing demands. However, technical analysts caution that oil markets may be over-bought.