 Oil at $95.5, Dow Pulls Back from Records, and Norway Unexpectedly Raises Rates — Markets in Turmoil. I have fresh numbers for May 7 on my desk. Here's what's really happening: **Oil.** WTI is hovering around $95.5 after a sharp drop and rebound. Iran is still studying the memorandum — the market is in limbo. Any news from the Persian Gulf could swing the price by $5-7 in a day. **America.** The S&P and Dow corrected after record highs. The reason is geopolitics, not economics. Meanwhile, labor costs rose only 2.3% versus the expected 2.6% — good news for inflation. But 83,000 layoffs in April is a quarterly high. The labor market is sending mixed signals. **Rates.** Norway surprised everyone by raising its key rate to 4.25% against expectations. Signal: central banks aren't done with tight policy, even if the market thinks otherwise. **Mexico** — a pleasant exception: inflation slowed to 4.45%. For emerging markets, this is a green light. **What this means for business.** High volatility = chaos for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. They don't have an analytics department monitoring 15 indicators a day. And reacting to changes in energy and commodity prices is the difference between profit and loss. It's for situations like these that we created ASI Biont — so an AI agent keeps its finger on the pulse of macroeconomics while the business owner focuses on real tasks. Analytics in seconds, not hours.