Prices of wholesale natural gas in Britain hit record highs last week
Beyond the Evergrande saga, Gregori Volokhine of Meeschaert Financial Services blamed the standoff over the US debt ceiling
Oil prices have bounced back strongly, and inched up despite the International Energy Agency saying global crude demand had dropped for three straight months
Oil prices rose further following last week's gains
Fears about the much more contagious variant have rattled world markets as it forces some governments to reimpose containment measures
US stocks had dropped the last two sessions, with analysts pointing to a weak retail sales report amid the Delta variant
Wall Street's streak of five straight records for the Dow and S&P 500 indices ended with a thud
Oil prices were down around 1.5 percent on the weak Chinese economic data.
World central bankers will meet later this month at an annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Crude prices rallied on Tuesday, with some analysts saying the worries over the hit to demand from the Delta variant have been overstated.
Oil prices were down by more than two percent on Monday.
China has also been confronted with a worsening resurgence of Covid-19.
A bigger unknown may be the platform's fate when the stock market no longer sees steadily climbing equity values as it has in recent months.
Bitcoin briefly climbed above $40,000 after Tesla expressed fresh support for the world's most popular cryptocurrency
Twitter shares were up more than five percent in after-market trades that followed release of the earnings figures.
Despite this, reports issued by the OECD have stated that the rise of Artificial Intelligence, Business Tools and Automation is unlikely to lead to any significant fall in total employment in the future.
The Delta variant has been in the headlines for weeks, but concerns on Wall Street grew after Los Angeles reimposed an indoor mask mandate over the weekend
British data showed unemployment dipped to 4.8 percent in the three months to the end of May from 5.0 percent in the three months to February.
The Fed has said repeatedly that stiff increases in consumer prices will be transitory, and so far the markets have largely accepted that argument.
US stocks ultimately recovered somewhat from their session lows, but all three major indices ended solidly down, with the Dow shedding 0.8 percent.