Investment bankers are hitting the road to raise more than $15 billion across initial public offerings in the coming weeks, nervously eyeing market volatility as a standoff with Iran threatens a fragile ceasefire.

Chile’s new government is looking to boost copper production faster than previously projected by speeding up permitting and making regulatory changes, the nation’s top mining official said in an interview.

The European Union’s executive arm is set to propose lowering energy taxes and power grid charges, after the Iran war added urgency to a plan to help the region’s struggling industries.

The economist Carmen Reinhart has made a career out of studying the causes of economic crises and the responses to them. Her most famous book, published in 2009 with co-author Ken Rogoff, dove into what they called “eight centuries of financial folly” across 66 countries and five continents and identified predictable patterns. Its title – This Time is Different – mocked the speculators, politicians and pundits pushing the idea that any moment in history can defy economic gravity.

Two sanctioned supertankers laden with Iranian crude have dropped anchor off Indian ports, marking what could be the first such cargoes to arrive in the country in nearly seven years, just as the US escalates efforts to curb Tehran’s exports.

US President Donald Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz after talks with Iran collapsed over the weekend risks widening a war now entering its seventh week, lifting oil prices and raising the prospect of further economic pain around the globe.