The semiconducting industry is in trouble, which means the global economy is in trouble. The sector that creates the computer chips that increasingly power our world requires a huge amount of resources to operate efficiently, including a number of different critical minerals and a whole lot of energy. And those supply chains are now facing major disruptions thanks to the war that the United States and Israel are waging in Iran.  Though Donald Trump stated on Monday that the war will end “very soon”, there is cause for concern that…

12 de marzo de 2026.- Con la asistencia de cientos de ciudadanos en la Plazoleta de la Democracia de la Registraduría Nacional de la Nación, el senador Iván Cepeda Castro inscribió este miércoles su candidatura a la presidencia de Colombia. Cepeda estuvo acompañado de su fórmula vicepresidencial ...

Ukraine on Thursday hit in a drone attack a key pipeline hub of Russia’s crude oil exports in the southern region of Krasnodar as Kyiv intensifies strikes on Russian energy and military infrastructure. The pipeline terminal at Tikhoretsk, which hosts a major oil depot and a pumping station, was hit and a large fire broke out as a result, a source with knowledge of the situation told Bloomberg. Tikhoretsk is a major oil transshipment and pumping station for Russian oil supply in it southern regions and for exports from its Black Sea ports…

Iraq will maintain crude oil production at roughly 1.4 million barrels per day as the war disrupting the Persian Gulf continues to cripple the country’s export routes, Oil Minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani said Thursday, according to the state news agency. The figure represents a dramatic collapse from Iraq’s normal production levels. Before the conflict effectively froze tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq had been pumping a little over 4 million barrels per day, according to recent OPEC data and secondary-source estimates cited…

12 de marzo de 2026.- Múltiples familias en Japón rindieron hoy homenaje a seres queridos víctimas de uno de los peores accidentes nucleares de la historia, ocurrido en la central eléctrica de Fukushima Daiichi, hace 15 años. Más de 19 mil 711 personas perdieron la vida a consecuencia del desastr...

Exploiting Afghan territory for training, recruitment, and cross-border operations, these groups have claimed hundreds of Pakistani lives in recent years. The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been shaped by mutual grievances. Pakistan supported the Taliban during the 1990s and throughout the post-2001 insurgency in Afghanistan. However, relations have deteriorated in recent years as the Taliban-led government in Kabul has refused Pakistan’s repeated demands to crack down on the TTP despite sustained diplomatic pressure.…

El especialista Asdrúbal Oliveros propone incrementos realistas de hasta USD 100 para trabajadores activos y entre USD 50 y USD 80 para pensionados, en función de la capacidad fiscal del Estado. Ante el panorama económico actual, el economista Asdrúbal Oliveros insistió en la necesi...

TotalEnergies is capping the price of gasoline and diesel at its stations in France to protect consumers from the “exceptional market volatility” since the beginning of the war in the Middle East, the French supermajor said on Thursday.  From March 13 until March 31, 2026, the price of gasoline and diesel at TotalEnergies will be capped at 1.99 euros and 2.09 euros per liter, respectively.  TotalEnergies will reassess the measure and the state of the global fuel markets in early April, it said today.    Oil…

El nuevo líder supremo de Irán, Mojtabá Jameneí, segundo hijo del ayatolá Alí Jameneí, asesinado el primer día de los masivos bombardeos de Washington y Te...

While Europe and Asia are reeling from the highest natural gas prices in three years following the closure of 20% of global LNG flows amid the Middle East war, the United States remains relatively insulated from the biggest price shock since the 2022-2023 energy crisis. U.S. natural gas futures have remained in the $3.10-$3.40 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) range since the war began and forced Qatar, the world’s second-largest LNG exporter, to shut in production at Ras Laffan, the world’s biggest liquefaction complex.…

El sector empresarial de los Estados Unidos inició una ofensiva legal contundente contra las políticas fiscales de la Casa Blanca. El bufete sin fines de lucro Liberty Justice Center anunció este lunes la presentación de una nueva demanda que impugna el impuesto del 15% decretado por el presid...

La presidenta encargada, Delcy Rodríguez, se pronunció este miércoles sobre el anuncio de Estados Unidos (EE. UU.) de reconocer al Gobierno legítimo de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, e informó que es un reconocimiento a un país que tiene derecho a recuperar y normalizar su vida polític...

Germany-based utility giant RWE is expanding its U.S. portfolio beyond renewables, focusing a large part of planned $19 billion investments in the United States by 2031 on gas-fired power generation.  RWE – which ditched U.S. offshore wind last year after the Trump Administration signaled renewables would not be a priority and wouldn’t be supported going forward – is now betting big on flexible gas peaking capacity in the United States, where electricity demand is soaring and gas is cheap and abundant.   “In…

La compañía aérea brasileña GOL anunció la reanudación de sus vuelos entre São Paulo y Caracas, suspendidos en noviembre pasado debido a la ofensiva militar estadounidense y a una alerta de seguridad emitida por la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA). La ruta que se inauguró en...

Irán ha advertido de que todos los puertos y centros económicos en el Golfo Pérsico serán sus objetivos legítimos si Estados Unidos ataca los puertos iraníes. El portavoz de las Fuerzas Armadas de Irán, el general Abolfazl Sheka...

US President Donald ‌Trump claimed the United States has "won" the war against Iran ‌but says its forces will continue to attack until the job is finished, while Tehran has hit at least six vessels in the region and vowed further strikes. "You never like ‌to say too early you won. We won," Trump said during a campaign-style rally in Kentucky on March 11. "In the first hour it ‌was over," he said. Comments from Trump and the White House over recent days have varied, from speculating that the war could last four to six weeks or…

La producción petrolera de Venezuela aumentó un 10 % en febrero, cuando volvió a superar el millón de barriles por día (bpd), según cifras oficiales recogidas en un informe publicado este miércoles por la Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo (OPEP).

El precio minorista promedio nacional de la gasolina superó los 3,50 dólares por galón esta semana para alcanzar su nivel más alto desde mayo de 2024, mostraron datos de los servicios de seguimiento de precios AAA y GasBuddy, en un contexto de fuerte volatilidad en el mercado internacional de ...

12 de marzo de 2026.- Un brote de fiebre amarilla en los estados Barinas, Aragua, Lara y Portuguesa obligó a las autoridades sanitarias a adoptar medidas para contener la propagación de la enfermedad, según una nota oficial del Ministerio de Salud. No obstante, la ministra de Salud Nuramy Gutiérr...

Este jueves se estima nubosidad fragmentada, al alternar con zonas parcialmente nubladas en la mayor parte del país; no obstante, durante parte de la mañana se prevén mantos nubosos asociados a lluvias o lloviznas en Delta Amacuro, este de Sucre, sur de Bolívar, Amazonas, este de Miranda, este...