Oil prices slip and world shares are mixed as investors sell AI stocks in Asia

Oil prices bounced between gains and losses on Thursday and world shares were mixed, with South Korea’s Kospi falling again after losing more than 16% over the past two days due to selling of stocks related to artificial intelligence-related. Crude prices remained volatile after the U.S. said early Thursday it had conducted a “heavy wave” of strikes against Iran, responding to an attack on a U.S. base. It was trading around $72 a barrel in late February, before the Iran war began.