Pakistan’s alliance of goods transporters has warned it could launch a nationwide strike over soaring fuel costs in another economic pressure that the South Asian country is feeling from the Middle East crisis. “Transporters across Pakistan should remain prepared; a nationwide strike call can be given at any time,” Malik Shehzad Awan, president of the Pakistan Goods Transport Alliance, said in a statement carried by local media on Friday. The alliance slammed the Pakistani government’s decision to hike fuel prices in the…

Durante las próximas horas del día se espera un incremento de la cobertura nubosa, asociada a lluvias de intensidad variable en zonas de la Guayana Esequiba, Delta Amacuro, Bolívar, Amazonas, Monagas, Sucre, Llanos Occidentales/Centrales, así como en la Región Insular, Andes y Zulia. Además, s...

El representante comercial de Estados Unidos, Jamieson Greer, anunció la entrada en vigor de un nuevo paquete de aranceles de entre 10 % y 12,5 % dirigido a las mercancías de sesenta economías. Esta medida se lanza de forma apresurada justo a tiempo para relevar el esquema arancelario anterior...

24-07-26.-El ministro de Defensa destituido de Ucrania indicó el jueves que ha rechazado los esfuerzos del presidente Volodymyr Zelenskyy por persuadirlo de reincorporarse al gobierno en un cargo distinto, desde el cual podría seguir combatiendo la invasión rusa, que ya supera los cuatro años. My...

At least one oil tanker carrying Saudi crude oil has transited the Bab al-Mandeb Strait with its transponder switched off as risks to vessels in the Red Sea spiked this week after the Houthis announced a blockade on Saudi shipments and targeted vessels offshore Yemen. The Merbabu tanker, owned by a Greek company and laden with Saudi crude oil, transited the Bab al-Mandeb Strait in the so-called dark mode, which many shippers and tanker operators used for months to move undetected to hostile targeting in the Strait of Hormuz. The Merbabu emerged…

El Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela (CIV) denunció ante la Defensoría del Pueblo un “confinamiento indirecto” que afecta a miles de familias en edificios multifamiliares de la capital, debido a la paralización prolongada de los ascensores tras el sismo registrado el pasado 24 de junio. Richard ...

24-07-26.-En esta nueva entrega de Puntualizando el periodista Vladimir Villegas analiza el nuevo escenario de negociación política entre la representación de la Asamblea 2015, y el gobierno presente en Venezuela. [yt=ktWV23dw4NU] ...

September WTI crude oil futures were trading at $92.31 late Thursday, up $10.54 or 12.89% for the week. The contract posted a weekly low at $79.58 before climbing to a weekly high at $92.31. This was not a normal risk-premium rally. WTI started the week with the Strait of Hormuz already impaired, then gained speed as the market realized Saudi Arabia’s alternate export route through the Red Sea was also under threat. By Thursday, traders were no longer pricing one damaged chokepoint. They were pricing a supply system with fewer ways to move…

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Iran has spent the week attacking the military infrastructure that allows the U.S. to wage war across the Middle East. After 12 consecutive nights of U.S. strikes on Iranian command centers, missile sites, air defenses and nuclear-linked facilities, Tehran hit American radar, communications, air-defense and aviation assets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, including facilities tied to the Fifth Fleet, Camp Arifjan, Ali Al Salem Air Base and Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. Iranian attacks have now killed U.S. personnel…

As an energy investor, I am sure you are aware of the expected impact of the AI boom. The servers that AI platforms require demand enormous amounts of power. That, along with expected demand increases from the continued growth of EVs, has made companies with electricity generation power some of the trendiest stocks over the last couple of years. However, those producers can only meet the increased demand if there is significant investment in the infrastructure of electricity generation and transfer, so what about stocks in that industry? Well,…

Trump likes to test big ideas in real time, and very publicly. Earlier this week, Washington was prepared to surrender one of its most valuable bargaining chips with Saudi Arabia, without the conditions one would expect from American foreign policy.  For years, successive U.S. administrations treated domestic uranium enrichment as the one concession Riyadh could not have without paying a strategic price. Most recently, that cost was normalization with Israel. Two days ago, Trump was willing to simply give that leverage away for free as he…

24-07-26.-La Administración de Donald Trump ha pedido al Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos que garantice la inmunidad judicial de la presidenta interina de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, en la demanda civil abierta contra ella en Florida. Así lo ha solicitado el asesor jurídico del Departam...

24-07-26.-El Servicio Nacional de Medicina y Ciencias Forenses (Senamecf) afirmó este jueves 23 que en la morgue temporal de Los Silos, ubicada cerca del puerto de La Guaira, hay 38 cuerpos de niños, niñas y adolescentes fallecidos por los terremotos sin reclamar, por lo que exhortaron a familiares ...

24-07-26.-El Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Prensa (SNTP), hizo un llamado a periodistas, medios de comunicación y usuarios de redes sociales a actuar con responsabilidad en el manejo de la información, especialmente durante situaciones de emergencia, donde la difusión de datos no verifica...

Chinese refiners have bought up all crude oil cargoes set to load from Russia’s Far East port of Kozmino in August weeks earlier than usual, traders with knowledge of the market told Bloomberg on Friday, as risks to Middle Eastern supply spiked this week with attacks on tankers in the Red Sea. China has been snapping up the cargoes at a faster pace, which raised the price of the Russian Far Eastern crude blend ESPO to a discount of just $1 per barrel to the price of ICE Brent, up from a discount of between $3 and $4 per barrel two weeks ago,…

24-07-26.-Farruco Sesto, ex-ministro chavista, habló en las últimas horas sobre la construcción de viviendas bajo los gobiernos que integró. Lo hizo en Madrid, en el marco del foro “Vivienda en Lucha”. Allí, explicando el desarrollo de la Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela dijo, entre otras cosas: “No h...

24-07-26.-El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, aseguró este jueves que el secretario de Energía, Chris Wright, está dirigiendo Venezuela y le felicitó por el trabajo que está haciendo. Durante el acto celebrado este jueves en la sede de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), Trump af...

The U.S. has identified cooperation on small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) as a key priority in its engagement with Southeast Asia as regional electricity demand continues to climb. Speaking after Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Manila, U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN Kevin Kim said the administration was in “deep discussions” with several governments in the region over the new technology.  The renewed push for SMRs comes on the heels of the memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S.,…

24-07-26.-Protección Civil emitió una comunicado oficial en cual niegan haber encontrado sobrevivientes este jueves en las labores que se desarrollan en la OPP26 en La Guaira, luego de los recientes terremotos. En el texto, también se indicó que las actividades se mantienen en la zona y que cualq...

24-07-26.-El precio del dólar en el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) se cotizó este jueves 23 de julio 2026 en Bs.742,22 por unidad según la última actualización en su página web oficial y redes sociales.   &nb...