IREN Limited ( IREN ) shares are up Wednesday. The S&P 500 gained just 0.04% and the Nasdaq-100 rose 0.34% at the same time. Short Squeeze Risk Builds Short interest on IREN ( IREN ) rose from 41.95 million to 44.47 million shares — 14.03% of the public float. At 30.35 million average daily volume, short sellers need 1.46 days...

* BP's $21 million bid leads auction * Chevron ( CVX ) bids nearly $11.5 million for three blocks March 11 (Reuters) - A sale of drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday ended with $46.98 million in high bids from oil and gas companies, with a single bid from BP accounting for nearly half of the total,...

March 11 (Reuters) - A sale of drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday ended with $46.98 million in high bids from oil and gas companies, with a single bid from BP accounting for nearly half of the total, according to a livestreamed U.S. government auction. The sale, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, yielded...

12:12 PM EDT, 03/11/2026 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with additional information in the second and third paragraphs.) The International Energy Agency's 32 member countries agreed to release a record 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves to combat disruptions in markets stemming from the war in Iran, the IEA said Wednesday. The UK government said Wednesday it will...