Oil prices pulled back Friday, but not because the market suddenly feels safe. This is more of a tactical breather than a trend change. Brent slipped back toward the $109 level, while WTI hovered in the high-$90s, easing from the week’s Thursday spike that briefly pushed Brent near $120. The trigger wasn’t a shift in fundamentals—it was policy. Washington is scrambling to throw barrels at the problem, and allies are lining up behind a coordinated effort to stabilize flows through the Strait of Hormuz, including by sending additional…

Oil prices pulled back Friday, but not because the market suddenly feels safe. This is more of a tactical breather than a trend change. Brent slipped back toward the $109 level, while WTI hovered in the high-$90s, easing from the week’s Thursday spike that briefly pushed Brent near $120. The trigger wasn’t a shift in fundamentals—it was policy. Washington is scrambling to throw barrels at the problem, and allies are lining up behind a coordinated effort to stabilize flows through the Strait of Hormuz, including by sending additional…

Amid the Iranian war and oil price crisis, the Department of Energy, alongside the Department of Commerce, has unveiled a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio that centers on one thing the AI boom desperately needs but rarely talks about plainly—power. Not theoretical power. Not intermittent power. Real, dispatchable, grid-ready megawatts, mostly from natural gas. At the core of the plan, revealed in a Friday press release, is a 10-gigawatt data center campus at the Portsmouth Site in southern Ohio, backed by an equally massive…

Amid the Iranian war and oil price crisis, the Department of Energy, alongside the Department of Commerce, has unveiled a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio that centers on one thing the AI boom desperately needs but rarely talks about plainly—power. Not theoretical power. Not intermittent power. Real, dispatchable, grid-ready megawatts, mostly from natural gas. At the core of the plan, revealed in a Friday press release, is a 10-gigawatt data center campus at the Portsmouth Site in southern Ohio, backed by an equally massive…

20 de marzo de 2026.- El capitán de la selección venezolana recién proclamada campeona en el Clásico Mundial de Béisbol, Salvador Pérez, donó parte de su indumentaria con la que participó en el torneo al Salón de la Fama de Cooperstown de las Grandes Ligas junto a su compatriota, Eugenio Suárez. ...

As the world braces for a potential “Battle of Hormuz” to reopen the world’s most important energy chokepoint, governments and energy markets are scrambling to answer a daunting question: What happens if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed for weeks or even months? The narrow waterway between Iran and Oman is the most critical chokepoint in the global energy system. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply moves through it every day, along with enormous volumes of natural gas and petrochemical feedstocks. In practical terms,…

20 de marzo de 2026.- Las operaciones aéreas entre la República Dominicana y Venezuela quedaron oficialmente restablecidas tras una suspensión de casi dos años. El reinicio de esta conexión se concretó con el vuelo inaugural de la aerolínea Laser Airlines, lo que marca el fin de las restricciones...

En el marco del proyecto "Medios de Subsistencia Agrícolas de Emergencia para las Comunidades Afectadas por las Inundaciones", la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), con apoyo del Fondo Central para la Acción en Casos de Emergencia de las ...

Refiners in Asia are paying huge premiums for crude that could replace some of the supply stuck in the Middle East, with the most suitable grades from Norway and the U.S. being bid at record-high double-digit premiums over Dated Brent.  Many refineries in Asia, which is the most dependent region on Middle East supply, are designed to optimally run on the sour and heavier grades that the Gulf producers export. Now that most Gulf supply is either curtailed at the upstream level or stuck on tankers unable to pass the Strait of Hormuz, refiners…

Refiners in Asia are paying huge premiums for crude that could replace some of the supply stuck in the Middle East, with the most suitable grades from Norway and the U.S. being bid at record-high double-digit premiums over Dated Brent.  Many refineries in Asia, which is the most dependent region on Middle East supply, are designed to optimally run on the sour and heavier grades that the Gulf producers export. Now that most Gulf supply is either curtailed at the upstream level or stuck on tankers unable to pass the Strait of Hormuz, refiners…

Oil is heading for a fifth straight weekly gain, with Brent near $109, as the Strait of Hormuz remains shut for a third week, keeping supply tight despite policy efforts to ease the market. Friday, March 20, 2026 Oil markets are set to post their fifth consecutive weekly gain (excepting WTI which will see a minor week-over-week decline), with ICE Brent trading around $109 per barrel. Whilst the Trump administration has sought to defuse market concerns using any means available – waiving the Jones Act, easing Russian sanctions further or de-sanctioning…

La Habana, 19 mar (Prensa Latina) Organizadores del Convoy solidario europeo Let Cuba Breathe (Dejen respirar a Cuba) denunciaron hoy aquí la política de máxima presión del gobierno de Estados Unidos contra la isla, y reafirmaron su respaldo al derecho de esta nación caribeña a la paz y la aut...

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El ministro de las Comunas, Ángel Prado, informó que todo el equipo del despacho que dirige se irá a la calle para "trabajar junto al Poder Popular en la fase de ejecución de los proyectos" seleccionados en la Consulta Popular Nacional del 8 de marzo. Detalló que la ruta d...

Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices soared this week after Qatar’s key LNG hub sustained extensive damage in Iranian missile attacks, with European gas prices on track for a 20% weekly jump early on Friday as the market braces itself for years of disrupted supply out of the world’s second-largest LNG exporter.    The April 2026 contract of the Dutch TTF Natural Gas Futures slightly eased early on Friday from the surge on Thursday and was trading flat at about $72 (62 euros) per megawatt-hour (MWh) as…

Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices soared this week after Qatar’s key LNG hub sustained extensive damage in Iranian missile attacks, with European gas prices on track for a 20% weekly jump early on Friday as the market braces itself for years of disrupted supply out of the world’s second-largest LNG exporter.    The April 2026 contract of the Dutch TTF Natural Gas Futures slightly eased early on Friday from the surge on Thursday and was trading flat at about $72 (62 euros) per megawatt-hour (MWh) as…

De manera unilateral, el gobierno costarricense limitó las relaciones con la Mayor de las Antillas al ámbito consular El presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rechazó la decisión unilateral del gobierno de Costa Rica de «…rebajar el nivel de las relaciones con Cuba, lim...

El vicepresidente sectorial de Planificación, Ricardo Menéndez, advirtió sobre los riesgos asociados al uso de la inteligencia artificial, especialmente en la manipulación de la información y su incidencia en la libertad de pensamiento de la sociedad venezolana. Así lo dejó saber du...

When Israeli jets struck the South Pars gas complex near Asaluyeh, they hit more than pipes and compressors. They struck the single piece of infrastructure most essential to Iran's ability to function -- a field that provides 75 percent of Iran's domestic gas supply and powers roughly 80 percent of the country's electricity generation. The strike halted output at two refineries with a combined daily capacity of around 100 million cubic meters, sending prices soaring and triggering Iranian retaliatory strikes on energy infrastructure in Gulf Arab…

El Instituto Venezolano de los Seguros Sociales (IVSS) anunció que el pago de las pensiones correspondientes al mes de abril se realizará el viernes 20 de marzo, según una publicación difundida en su cuenta oficial de Instagram. El organismo recordó a los beneficiarios que pueden realizar sus ...