Brent is clinging to $60 per barrel, but markets have become even less sensitive to geopolitical risk. Friday, December 19, 2025 Things are not looking good for oil, with Trump’s belligerent rhetoric vis-à-vis Venezuela only pushing ICE Brent futures to $60 per barrel after a slide below that psychological threshold earlier in the week. Sanctions against Russia or threats thereof have by now desensitized the market towards Russian supply risks, once again demonstrated by the lack of price movements after Ukraine targeted another shadow…

Las sanciones tienen el objetivo de elevar los costos de exportación de petróleo iraní y reducir los ingresos que Teherán obtiene por cada barril vendido. El Gobierno de Estados Unidos incluyó este jueves a 2...

Un hombre alemán fue declarado culpable de drogar, violar y filmar a su esposa inconsciente durante años,

Una organización nacionalista puertorriqueño sumó su repudio a la política de agresión estadounidense contra Venezuela, subrayando su apoyo al pueblo venezolanos. El Movimiento Ñin Negrón de Puerto Rico denunció el jueves "las burdas acciones del imperio y los crímenes de lesa ...

The international gold and foreign exchange reserves held by the world’s biggest oil-producing nations in the EU could be at risk, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, after EU leaders discussed using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.  “This is not just a blow to its image; it is an undermining of trust in the euro zone,” Putin said in year-end remarks to the Russian press, as carried by Reuters.  “The fact is that many countries keep their gold and foreign exchange reserves in the euro zone, not…

El canciller de la República, Yván Gil, expresó en nombre del presidente Nicolás Maduro y del pueblo venezolano su agradecimiento a la Federación de Rusia por el mensaje de solidaridad frente a las recientes amenazas de Estados Unidos. Gil destacó que la postura rusa reafirma el der...

The European Union will provide a 90 billion-euro ($106 billion) interest-free loan to Kyiv to help fund the war-torn country after failing to agree on a proposal to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine's economic and military needs in the coming years. European Council President Antonio Costa said in a post on X on December 19 that the funds will be for 2026 and 2027. "We committed, we delivered," he said. EU officials began meeting on December 18 to agree on a solution for funding. The talks focused on a proposal to use tens of billions…

    La plataforma Hegoak, integrada por más de una decena de organizaciones políticas, sindicales y sociales vascas, ha hecho público un comunicado en el que "denuncia la implementación de una `estrategia neo-colonial´" basada en injere...

El ministro de Finanzas israelí aprobó construir 3600 viviendas en el asentamiento de "Meshmar Yehuda", en el este de Al-Quds ocupada. Según la agencia de noticias palestina Safa, Bezalel Smotrich, ministro de finanzas del régimen israelí, anunció que este nuevo asentamien...

En una muestra clara e irrefutable de la voluntad popular, los resultados de una medición de opinión realizada del 16 al 17 de diciembre por Dataviva, revelan el rotundo rechazo del pueblo venezolano a las recientes declaraciones agresivas y a las amenazas del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, l...

China expresó este jueves su respaldo a Venezuela ante las presiones unilaterales de Estados Unidos, después de que el presidente Donald Trump anunciara un "bloqueo total" a petroleros vinculados al país latinoamericano. A través de un comunicado del ministerio de Exterior...

Recordado por su papel del el yerno Michael "Meathead" Stivic en la serie cómica de los años 70 'All in the family' (Mi familia), como director 'This is Spinal Tap', en 1984; y por la comedia romántica 'Cuando Harry conoció a Sally', con Billy Cristal y Meg Ry...

WTI crude futures are trading around $55.81 through Thursday’s close, down 2.60% for the week with one session left. Prices have held within a $54.84–$56.85 range so far, reaching fresh five-year lows before geopolitical headlines generated brief recoveries. The setup continues to reflect a market dominated by oversupply concerns, with traders using geopolitical rallies to sell into strength rather than reprice the broader fundamental picture. Across the week, geopolitical risks, refinery outages, U.S. inventory data, OPEC+ policy decisions,…

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict New drone attacks on oil-related infrastructure in Sudan have reinforced the risks surrounding South Sudan’s export route to Port Sudan. The attacks did not halt flows, but did further expose the GNPOC pipeline corridor to Sudan’s raging civil war. That corridor runs through West Kordofan, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controls territory around Balila and can restrict movement or interrupt operations without operating the fields themselves. Operators have responded by limiting…

It’s that time of year again, when those who follow or opine on financial markets take stock of the year just gone and look forward to the year to come. In many ways, it might seem like a pointless exercise. I mean, if a year is a long time in politics, it is an eternity in trading, and there is no way of knowing even what will be driving commodity prices twelve months from now, or in which direction. Despite that, though, sober year-end reflection does have a purpose for traders and investors. It enables you to look back at what you got…

The current U.S. approach to Venezuela is a deliberate financial strangulation strategy, as we have previously noted, with the objective of degrading Maduro’s ability to fund his patronage network and parallel economic networks. This week’s escalation in the form of asset seizures and tanker interdictions is designed to raise transaction costs prohibitively, if it doesn’t backfire first. This is classic soft regime change logic that assumes–perhaps erroneously–that this economic pain will fragment the elite faster…

Adani Group, the conglomerate of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is in talks with the state government of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state on a public-private partnership to build small modular reactors (SMRs) as India opens its nuclear energy sector to private investment.  Adani Group is in discussions with Uttar Pradesh officials to build eight SMRs with capacity of 200 megawatts (MW) each at yet-to-be-identified sites in the state, anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg on Friday.  A potential deal…

El presidente de EEUU, Donald Trump, declaró que "no descarta" una posible guerra contra Venezuela tras ordenar lo que llamó un "bloqueo" de los petroleros sancionados que entran y salen del país. El mandatario aseguró que habrá más incautaciones de petroleros ce...

El Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) programó para el martes 23 de diciembre una reunión de urgencia solicitada por Venezuela para tratar la "agresión abierta y criminal del imperialismo estadounidense" tras la incautación de un buque petrolero venezolano por parte de...

La organización nacionalista puertorriqueño sumó su repudio a la política de agresión estadounidense contra Venezuela, subrayando su apoyo al pueblo venezolanos. El Movimiento Ñin Negrón de Puerto Rico denunció el jueves "las burdas acciones del imperio y los crímenes de lesa h...