This chapter covers the debut of Instacart on the public market, the upcoming IPO of Clay Vio, and the increase in oil prices, with insights from the FT's US Energy Editor.
Shares in grocery delivery group Instacart jumped more than 10 per cent on their first day of trading, oil prices climbed above $95 a barrel for the first time in 2023, and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau sparked fury in India when he said authorities were investigating whether “agents” of New Delhi were behind the June killing of a prominent Sikh activist in a Vancouver suburb.
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