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The news reflects ongoing portfolio optimization among legacy energy majors, but such micro-level corporate moves rarely move global risk sentiment. Crypto trading today is driven by macro liquidity, ETF flows, and on-chain activity, not by M&A in the oil & gas sector.

Shell Plc is attracting interest from several potential buyers, including Exxon and Apollo, for its US chemicals business as part of its divestment of underperforming assets, according to the Financial Times.