West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices were up 2.5% in Monday trading at 2:42 p.m. ET, reaching $58.17, as tensions flared in Yemen and hopes for a peace deal on the Russia-Ukraine front dissipated following unsuccessful talks between Kyiv and Washington.  In Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition has vowed to retaliate against any military ‌moves by the main southern separatist group backed by the UAE, the Saudi state news agency reported on Saturday. Last week, an escalation of fighting killed two people from the separatist group. Meanwhile,…

JP Morgan congeló cuentas como medida preventiva ante posibles vínculos con sanciones. La medida refleja presión de organismos como la OFAC sobre bancos globales. JP Morgan fue el banco estadounidense que congeló las cuentas bancarias de la startup Kontigo que da soporte ...

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores ruso, Serguéi Lavrov, denunció que el régimen de Kiev, intentó atacar con más de 90 drones una residencia oficial del presidente de Rusia, Vladímir Putin. «En la noche del 28 al 29 de diciembre, el régimen de Kiev llevó a cabo un ataque ter...

2025 was the year artificial intelligence (AI) took the driver’s seat, literally. Not just in boardrooms or on trading floors, but increasingly on the tarmac, in showrooms, and behind the wheel itself. From record-breaking EV sales in the UK and Europe to autonomous taxis navigating San Francisco streets and preparing to arrive in London next year, the automotive world shifted into a new era. The technology set the pace, but human decisions in policy, investment, and adoption alike determined whether the ride would be smooth or bumpy. Britain…

Iran’s Central Bank governor Mohammad Reza Farzin stepped down on Monday after protests erupted in Tehran and other cities following a sharp collapse in the rial. The currency plunged on Sunday to around 1.42 million rials per dollar on the free market before stabilizing slightly at about 1.38 million on Monday. For perspective, Iran’s currency traded at roughly 32,000 rials per dollar when Tehran signed the JCPOA nuclear accord in 2015 under then-U.S. President Barack Obama. Iran's economy has been grappling with major challenges,…

En la ciudad capital se han conformado 102 consejos campesinos que posicionaron a Caracas como una región que logró producir 5.860 toneladas de hortalizas, frutas, legumbres, café y proteínas este 2025, para distribuir en Clap, mercados parroquiales, ferias, escuelas y hospitales. L...

2025 has proven to be an annus horribilis for clean energy after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) rolled back major tax credits and imposed new restrictions, pressuring early-stage solar and wind energy pipelines. Indeed, a Cleanview analysis of U.S. power projects has revealed that developers have cancelled 1,891 power projects with a combined 266 GW of generation capacity in the current year, including 86,466 MW of solar power, 79,045 MW of storage and 54,328 MW of wind power projects. Meanwhile, Europe has witnessed disappointing…

Following the Ukrainian drone attack that damaged a key export terminal on Russia’s Black Sea at end-November, Kazakhstan’s crude and condensate production has fallen by 6% so far in December compared to the average output in November, an anonymous industry source told Reuters on Monday.  A Ukrainian attack damaged infrastructure through which the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) exports most of Kazakhstan’s oil near the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.  Oil has continued to flow, but at lower rates, while…

With a two-month "quarantine" placed on Venezuelan oil by the Trump administration in a foreign policy move called "gunboat diplomacy," new data estimate that roughly $900 million worth of crude is currently loaded on tankers, unable to depart Venezuela due to the U.S. blockade. "Based on our visual analysis from both shore and space, we estimate that there are around 17.5 million barrels of crude oil floating onboard tankers in Venezuela which are unable to depart due to the ongoing US blockade," independent research Tanker Trackers wrote on X.…

La violencia no da tregua en la costa ecuatoriana. Cerca de las 09:00 locales del domingo 28 de diciembre de 2025, el malecón de Puerto López se convirtió en el escenario de una nueva tragedia. Varios hombres armados con fusiles automáticos, que se desplazaban en una camioneta y dos motociclet...

CNOOC Ltd, China’s top offshore crude oil and natural gas producer, has announced the discovery of a major new oilfield in the Bohai Sea.  The Qinhuangdao 29-6 discovery in the shallow Neogene formations of the Bohai Sea is yet another oilfield estimated to hold more than 100 million tons of crude, or about 730 million barrels, and discovered by CNOOC recently, the company said.   Through continued exploration, the proved in-place volume of Qinhuangdao 29-6 Oilfield has exceeded 100 million tons of oil equivalent.  The…

Una jornada de luto envuelve al proyecto ferroviario más importante del sureste mexicano. El Tren Interoceánico de pasajeros, pieza clave del Corredor Multimodal que conecta el Pacífico con el Atlántico, sufrió un fatal descarrilamiento la mañana del domingo en las inmediaciones de la comunida...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy concluded his talks with US President Donald Trump without a peace deal, but he said US and Ukrainian teams will meet again soon and that a gathering of leaders -- including those from Europe -- will be held in Washington next month. Zelenskyy, on December 28, posted on social media that "we had a substantive discussion on all issues," including matters concerning all-important security guarantees, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. "We discussed all the aspects of the peace framework and…

Un bebé de dos meses falleció en la ciudad de Gaza a causa del frío y en medio de las incesantes lluvias que afectan a la Franja palestina, informó este lunes el Ministerio de Sanidad gazatí, que eleva a tres el número de recién nacidos muertos por hipotermia desde que comenzó la temporada de ...

Daniel Dale de CNN diseccionó sin piedad a Donald Trump enumerando sus 25 "principales mentiras de 2025". En un análisis escrito el 27 de diciembre, el verificador de datos detalló todas las falsedades que Trump difundió este año, bromeando que era difícil reducirlas a "solo 25". En...

Saudi Arabia is expected to further lower the price of its crude oil bound for Asia in February, as global supply remains plentiful and spot benchmarks in the Middle East have dropped, a Reuters survey of six Asian refining sources showed on Monday.   Saudi Arabia, the biggest crude exporter in the world, is poised to reduce the price of its flagship Arab Light crude by $0.10 to $0.30 per barrel for February loadings to Asia, the participants in the survey said.  The expected drop would bring the price of Arab Light to a premium…

29 de diciembre de 2025.- La Asociación CANAÁN en su Canal YouTube: PALESTINA 11MIL AÑOS DE HISTORIA, tiene como invitada a la notable documentalista, Liliane Blaser. Ella es venezolana de raíces europeas, de madre de confesión religiosa judía. Liliane Blaser Aza en relación al anacronismo eu...

Oil prices rose by 2% early on Monday in thinner-than-usual trading after the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents said progress had been made on a peace agreement, but issues still remain to be discussed.   As of 7:43 a.m. ET on Monday, the U.S. benchmark crude price, WTI Crude, was up by 2.43% on the day and traded at $58.12.  The international benchmark, Brent Crude, moved to $62 per barrel, up by 2.24% from Friday’s close.  U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on Sunday at Mar-a-Lago…

29-12-25.-La doctora colombiana Carmen Hurtado, conocida como ‘Dra. Orejitas’ se viralizó en redes sociales luego de obsequiarle una ‘otoplastia’ para arreglar la forma de sus orejas a un niño venezolano y así evitarle el trago amargo de que siguiera sufriendo bullying en su escuela. El niño, de ...

China’s exports of electric vehicles surged by 87% in November from a year earlier, with Asia and Europe taking the highest number of Chinese EVs, per data from China’s customs office cited by Bloomberg. Asia remained the top export market for China-made EVs, with a 71% jump in sales, to 110,061 units in November compared to the same month of 2024. Sales in Europe surged by 63% to nearly 43,000 vehicles last month, according to the official Chinese export data. The region of Latin America and the Caribbean saw sales of China-made EVs…