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Oil Prices Rise After Russia Pounded Ukrainian Energy Targets

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 12, 20261 min
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Plus: Stocks are mixed today. And Bumble shares soar on news that it may go private at $1 billion valuation. Alexis Moore hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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This podcast is brought to you by HPE. Every business has a there. Automation, transformation, scale, maybe all of the above. The HPE self-driving network gets you there

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with a network that's self-optimizing, self-healing, and self-protecting, and only continues to get smarter. Whether you run it or rely on it,

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it's a network that gets you there. Learn more about this self-driving network at hpe.com slash networking. Here's your closing bill brief for Monday, October 12.

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