14-01-25.-La Oficina de Control de Activos Extranjeros (OFAC, por sus siglas en inglés), perteneciente al Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, removió este 13 de enero a la empresa Elemento Oil & Gas Ltd., y a sus propietarios Alessandro Bazzoni y Francisco Javier D’Agostino Casado (cuñado de ...

14-01-25.-El secretario general nacional del MAS, Felipe Mujica, aseguró que Venezuela se encuentra en el mismo punto desde el pasado 28 de julio, fecha de la elección presidencial. “Continúa la incertidumbre en el país y en presencia de un conjunto de eventos que no terminan de perfilarse ni de ...

14-01-25.-Las autoridades militares de Venezuela retuvieron un tanquero de bandera de Guyana, el cual ingresó sin permiso en aguas venezolanas, reseñó el portal Últimas Noticias.  El procedimiento transcurrió en el Puerto de Guamache, estado Nueva Esparta, donde atracó el b...

2024-12-27 Gaceta Oficial 43036 SUMARIO PRESIDENCIA DE LA REPÚBLICA Decreto 5067, que nombra a los Miembros del Consejo Directivo Provisional de la Universidad Nacional de las Ciencias Dr. Humberto Fernández–Morán, a los ciudadanos y ...

Oil trading in 2024 was marked by the near complete dominance of algorithmic trading. While not a new trend, algo trading arguably reached its peak last year, with technical analysis largely displacing any factual fundamentals considerations. Instead of making traders money, however, algo trading has lost them money. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that 2024 was a loss-making year for algo traders—and it was the second loss-making year in a row for them. Throughout the year, driven by algorithms, oil traders bet on a demand slump in…

The history of the Middle East since the 1990s has been in many aspects been defined by China’s need to secure sufficient energy to power its economic growth to rival the superpower status of the U.S., and Washington’s efforts to keep these efforts in check. The ebb and flow of these competing forces has been felt nowhere more acutely perhaps than Iraq, with its very conservatively estimated 145 billion barrels of oil reserves and 3.5 trillion cubic metres of gas. While U.S. forces remained on the ground following the 2003 overthrow…

With just a week to go before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ascends into the Oval Office for a second term, the oil and gas industry will be watching keenly to see what measures he will adopt to achieve his “Drill, Baby, Drill” agenda. Trump says he’ll push shale producers to ramp up output, even if it means operators “drill themselves out of business.” However, it’s not clear he intends to accomplish this feat since U.S. oil is produced by independent companies and not a national oil company (NOC). Exxon…

The United States power grid is under enormous stress. Ageing infrastructure coupled with rapidly changing supply and demand patterns are pushing the grid to its limits, threatening national energy security. All of this volatility is leading to price shocks and punishing electric bills for households across the country, with rising energy prices outpacing inflation.  The rapid rise of renewable energy and increased adoption of electric vehicles are changing the inflows and outflows of energy to the grid. Renewable energies such as solar and…

After decades of competition over dwindling resources in Central Asia’s agricultural heartland, the leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are embracing a spirit of cooperation as they jointly confront global warming-related challenges. That spirit of cooperation was on display January 8, when the prime ministers of the three states gathered at a remote location in the FerghanaValley where the three nations’ frontiers meet, to mark progress on settling long-standing border disputes.  Helping to pave the way for the gathering…

Es 13 de enero de 2025 y faltan 352 días del nuevo año para su terminación. Hoy es lunes. Las efemérides se refieren a sucesos, celebraciones o conmemoraciones significativas para un área del conocimiento, la cultura y las artes, la historia o la ciencia, ocurridos en una mis...

13 de enero de 2025.- El canciller de la República, Yván Gil, denunció este lunes los ataques producidos a varias sedes en consulados de Venezuela en Portugal, Alemania, Colombia, España y Costa Rica, quienes han sido atacadas por "un sector extremista" y coordinada por "los comanditos del fascismo ...

Brexit, Donald Trump’s tariffs and changing relations with China will hamper British trade growth in the next decade, a new report suggests. UK trade will only grow by 0.7 per cent annually between 2023 and 2033, according to new projections from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), down from a previous estimate of 0.9 per cent. This would see trade growth fall behind domestic GDP growth, which BCG expects to average 1.6 per cent in the decade to 2033, meaning trade is a less significant part of economic activity. Global trade, in contrast, is…

13 de enero de 2025.- Desde las 5 de la mañana de este lunes 13 de enero se abrieron nuevamente los pasos fronterizos entre Colombia y Venezuela por el estado Táchira, culminada de esta manera la medida preventiva de cierre temporal, tal cual lo habían anunciado las autoridades. El gobernador de ...

The oil price rally that kicked off last week after the Biden administration announced the harshest sanctions yet on Russian oil has carried over into the new week. WTI crude for February delivery was up 3.0% to change hands at $78.77 per barrel while Brent crude for March delivery was trading at $81.18 per barrel at 12.00 pm ET, good for a 1.8% increase. Last week, Reuters reported that a purported U.S. Treasury document circulating among traders in Europe and Asia, revealed that some 180 vessels, several senior Russian oil executives, dozens…

13 de enero de 2025.- La jornada de protestas afectó algunos servicios como el reparto de correos, la recogida de desechos y las cárceles. En Bélgica, numerosos sindicatos de los transportistas organizaron y llevaron a cabo masivas protestas en contra de los planes del futuro Gobierno Federal res...

I recently noticed that the elevator at my favorite cinema has been out of order for weeks now. The less mobile patrons need that elevator to transport them downward to this underground theater. I then learned of America's "elevator crisis" and my mind wandered to the struggle to maintain the Roman Empire. I'll explain the connection below. But first a refresher on Rome's predicament: The Roman emperor Trajan brought the Roman Empire to its greatest extent during his reign (98 to 117 A.D.) with his successful conquests in what we today would call…

13 de enero de 2025.- Los gremiales liderados por Antonio Siñani se movilizarán el lunes en la ciudad de La Paz, ese mismo día se prevé que la caminata “evista” llegue a la urbe paceña. Ambos sectores presionan al Gobierno con demandas, principalmente, económicas. De acuerdo con Siñani, la marcha...

13 de enero de 2025.- El fiscal general de la República, Tarek William Saab, informó que el Ministerio Público ha solicitado una orden de aprehensión contra el prófugo de la justicia Leopoldo López, quien se sumó al llamado a una intervención militar extranjera en Venezuela realizado por el expre...

Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has vowed to dismantle wind parks and wind turbines should it win power in the upcoming presidential elections in February, aligning itself with similar sentiments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. AfD asserts in its election platform that it “rejects the further expansion of wind energy” and has called for cuts to renewable subsidies.  German offshore-wind group BWO has hit back at AfD’s anti-wind policy, saying Putin would be the biggest beneficiary…

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has once again kicked up a storm with his pursuit of Greenland, this time refusing to rule out the use of force to gain control of the Arctic island from ally Denmark for national-security reasons. But Washington was interested in acquiring Greenland to mitigate threats emanating from the Arctic long before Trump came along, even offering Denmark $100 million in gold for the icy island shortly after the conclusion of World War II. That interest has only expanded in recent years as Russia and China step up their…