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Delta Air Lines kicked off airline earnings season with a confident tone, as CEO Ed Bastian said elevated airfare is here to stay, putting the carrier's two thousand twenty six profit targets within reach. Investors are watching closely to see whether that pricing power holds across the broader industry as summer travel demand peaks.
Shifting to energy, crude oil slid sharply overnight, with Brent benchmark prices falling two dollars and forty-five cents to seventy-six dollars and eighty cents a barrel. That represents a steep drop of nearly nineteen percent from just one month ago when oil was trading near ninety-four fifty, suggesting demand concerns and easing geopolitical risk premium are both doing real work on prices right now.
And in the crypto space, Strategy sold two hundred sixteen million dollars worth of Bitcoin to fund its dividend obligations, raising hard questions about the sustainability of its business model. When a company must liquidate its core treasury asset to meet shareholder payments, that tension between yield promises and balance sheet health becomes very difficult to ignore for long.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
