Energy shocks rarely remain confined to energy markets. They propagate through bond markets, fiscal balances and inflation expectations, says Helen Thomas As Winston Churchill once warned: “The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given he is no longer the master of policy, but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.” The conflict in Iran is already affecting global markets. Oil prices have surged, bond yields are rising and traders are rapidly reassessing the outlook for inflation and…

Desde el pasado fin de semana, portales internacionales y redes sociales han difundido la noticia del presunto fallecimiento de Iddo Netanyahu, médico y hermano del primer ministro de Israel. La información se viralizó acompañada de un video de una residencia en llamas, sugiriendo un ataque di...

The U.S.–Israel attacks on Iran and the Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict threaten Central Asia’s plans to establish southbound trade routes to markets in Asia and Africa. Military escalation between Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government and Pakistan threatens several emerging trade, transport, and energy corridors linking Central Asia to South Asia, the Persian Gulf, and global markets. Risks are both direct (insecurity along routes) and indirect (border closures, investor withdrawal, and partner-state reluctance). Pakistan…

EE.UU. enfrenta una creciente crisis logística tras el rechazo de sus aliados a las peticiones de ayuda de Trump en la guerra contra Irán. Mientras la guerra contra Irán entra en su duodécimo día, el Ejército estadounidense se enfrenta a una grave escasez de misiles de defensa aérea...

Los precios del petróleo cayeron con fuerza y las bolsas asiáticas y europeas repuntaban este martes tras la sugerencia del presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, de que la guerra en Oriente Medio podría terminar pronto. Los inversores se apresuraron a reaccionar ante estos coment...

Intent on staying on Tehran’s good side, Armenia and Azerbaijan have both saluted the elevation of Mojtaba Khamenei to be Iran’s Supreme Leader. The congratulatory notes sent by Yerevan and Baku highlight the delicate geopolitical balance that both are trying to maintain amid the ongoing US-Israeli air campaign to cause the Islamic Republic’s collapse. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan share a frontier with Iran. Meanwhile, both are heavily invested in developing a US-backed trade corridor, known as TRIPP or the Trump Route for International…

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Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco is requesting from Asian buyers to nominate crude loading plans for April for both its key export port in the Gulf and the export alternative on the Red Sea, multiple sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The crisis at the Strait of Hormuz has reverberated through global markets. With the Strait effectively blocked for tanker traffic, Saudi Arabia has diverted part of its crude oil exports from the Ras Tanura export terminal in the Gulf that needs free-flowing traffic through Hormuz to the Yanbu export port on…

La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, encabezó desde el Palacio de Miraflores la graduación de 1.660 nuevos Médicos Integrales Comunitarios. Los profesionales se incorporarán de inmediato a la red asistencial nacional para robustecer la atención primaria y especiali...

El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, anunció este martes en su cuenta de Truth Social la construcción de "la primera refinería de petróleo de EE.UU. en 50 años"...

Iranian drones struck oil storage facilities at the Port of Salalah in Oman on Wednesday, marking the latest attack on Gulf energy infrastructure as the regional war expands into a full-scale confrontation over global oil supply. Fuel storage tanks at the port were hit in the strike, according to maritime security firm Ambrey and Omani state media, though no merchant vessels in the area were damaged.OSINT account Visioner shared video footage of the oil storage facilities after the attack: ????????????BREAKING | A few minutes ago, Iranian drones…

El Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (Inameh) informó este martes que a partir del sábado 21 de marzo se presentará una declinación solar, hecho que provocará un aumento significativo de temperatura en el país. «Para el sábado 21 de marzo, un día después del equi...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) and its member nations have agreed to release a record 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves in an attempt to stabilize global energy markets as the war involving Iran continues to disrupt crude flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The coordinated action, announced Wednesday by the IEA, represents the largest emergency oil release ever organized by the group and only the sixth such intervention since the IEA was created following the 1970s oil shocks. The move comes as tanker traffic through the…

The International Energy Agency (IEA) and its member nations have agreed to release a record 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves in an attempt to stabilize global energy markets as the war involving Iran continues to disrupt crude flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The coordinated action, announced Wednesday by the IEA, represents the largest emergency oil release ever organized by the group and only the sixth such intervention since the IEA was created following the 1970s oil shocks. The move comes as tanker traffic through the…

Crude oil inventories in the United States increased by 3.8 million barrels during the week ending March 6, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The increase brings commercial stockpiles to 443.1 million barrels according to government data, which is still 2% below the five-year average for this time of year. The EIA’s data release follows API’s figures that were released a day earlier, which reported that crude oil inventories fell by 1.7 million barrels in the period. Crude…

El Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC) anunció el inicio formal del primer

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, está evaluando "opciones adicionales" para contener los precios de la gasolina, que se han visto afectados por los bloqueos derivados de la guerra de Irán en el estrecho de Ormuz, una vía por la que circula aproximadamente una quinta par...

La Agencia Internacional de Energía (AIE) propuso liberar más de 182 millones de barriles de petróleo —la mayor de su historia— como medida para frenar el alza de los precios del crudo,

Las compañías internacionales Chevron y Shell están cerca de concretar sus primeros acuerdos significativos de explotación petrolera en Venezuela desde la captura de Nicolás Maduro en enero, según informaron a

Driving past the gleaming skyscrapers of downtown Tel Aviv, a huge video billboard catches the eye as the advertisement switches from groceries to a giant portrait of the US president with the caption: "Thank you, God and Donald Trump!" The tribute bears witness to Israeli gratitude for America's role in the military strikes on Iran. Israeli officials have repeatedly stressed that the two countries are in lockstep. "The cooperation is historic between the US military and the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and between the Israeli Air Force and the…