16-04-25.-El Colegio Nacional de Periodistas (CNP) seccional Caracas ofreció este martes 15 de abril una rueda de prensa en la que alertaron sobre el deterioro de las condiciones para el ejercicio del periodismo en el país y condenaron la detención de 13 trabajadores de la prensa. «En los últimos...

16-04-25.-La Casa Blanca criticó este martes a la jueza que anuló la orden del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, para revocar el programa migratorio que da un estatus legal a 530.000 venezolanos, cubanos, nicaragüenses y haitianos, conocido como ‘parole humanitario’, y adelantó que apelará...

16-04-25.-Familiares de los más de 200 venezolanos detenidos en una cárcel salvadoreña pidieron este martes pruebas de vida de sus parientes, deportados por EE.UU. al país centroamericano acusados de presuntamente pertenecer a la banda criminal Tren de Aragua, y con quienes dicen haber perdido conta...

16-05-25.-La diputación del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) salvó el voto en la discusión del decreto de emergencia económica presentado por la vicepresidenta Delcy Rodríguez en la Asamblea Nacional el pasado jueves. El diputado Oscar Figuera explicó en rueda de prensa este lunes que ante l...

16-04-25.-El precio del dólar en el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) se cotizó este martes 15 de abril 2025 en Bs.79,78 por unidad según la última actualización en su página web oficial y redes sociales. El euro se cotizó en Bs....

15 de abril de 2025.-El ICE deporta a un adolescente venezolano a pesar de que, según informes, sabía que no era un objetivo. Merwil Gutiérrez fue enviado de Nueva York a una prisión de El Salvador, aunque su familia dice que no tiene antecedentes penales ni vínculos con pandillas, informó E...

15 de abril de 2025.-El presidente Donald Trump ha pedido que la Universidad de Harvard pierda una valiosa exención fiscal, horas después de que su administración anunciara la congelación de más de 2000 millones de dólares (1500 millones de libras) en fondos federales para esta prestigiosa ins...

15 de abril de 2025.-La jueza federal que supervisa el caso de un hombre deportado por error a El Salvador declaró que permitiría una investigación acelerada para determinar si la administración Trump está cumpliendo con su orden de "facilitar" su regreso de una de las megaprisiones ...

Previously, we reported that the ESG investing boom of yesteryears has gone bust. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing spiked in 2020 and 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic with low oil prices driving more investments beyond fossil fuels, while fund managers tried to appear more climate-conscious. However, the oil price boom of 2022/2023, political backlash against ESG led by Republican politicians as well as claims about greenwashing have made ESG investing lose plenty of luster.  To wit, Texas has barred state entities, including…

15 de abril de 2025) - El gobierno de Trump anunció la transferencia de emergencia de casi 110,000 acres de tierras federales a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México al Ejército para ayudar a prevenir la inmigración ilegal, informó el martes el Departamento del Interior, inform...

“The sky won’t fall,” the spokesman of China’s customs authority said this week, referring to President Trump’s trade war in China, just as the authority reported an over 12% jump in exports for March. China is preparing to respond to the tariffs—by going gray in trade. The New York Times reported this week that there is a growing fear in Europe that China may start redirecting its cheap, subsidized products to European markets in response to U.S. tariffs. Examples included electric cars, steel—which Europe…

The fact that U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a pause on the raft of new tariffs against most of the world’s countries – but not on most of those directed at China – highlights what these new levies are really all about. They are in large part specifically aimed at finally correcting a longstanding imbalance in the trade deficit between the U.S. and China since the Ccmmunist country developed a capitalist twist in the 1990s under former leader Deng Xiaoping. This gap has become increasingly more dramatic through China’s…

Over the past 100 years of US utility regulation, we’ve witnessed a great inversion of power: a once muscular administrative state has been severely weakened. In boxing terms, the utilities have won this round decisively vs big government. The financial implications are that state utility commissions and risk taking equity investors have become unnecessary. Why? Because if regulators uncritically approve every major utility capital initiative while authorizing generous returns on capital, then those jurisdictions already operate in a regime…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 2.4 million barrels for the week ending April 11. Analysts expected a loss of 1.680 million for the week. The API estimated a 1.057 million barrel drop in the prior week. So far this year, crude oil inventories have climbed more than 24 million barrels, according to Oilprice calculations of API data. Earlier this week, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) climbed 0.3 million…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States rose by 2.4 million barrels for the week ending April 11. Analysts expected a loss of 1.680 million for the week. The API estimated a 1.057 million barrel drop in the prior week. So far this year, crude oil inventories have climbed more than 24 million barrels, according to Oilprice calculations of API data. Earlier this week, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) climbed 0.3 million…

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has concluded the 83rd session of its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 83), marking a significant advancement in maritime decarbonization efforts. A pivotal outcome of this session was the approval of the IMO Net-Zero Framework, despite reservations expressed by certain member states, including the US and several oil production states.Rystad Energy's research highlights that the IMO's direct compliance targets are notably more ambitious compared to those set by FuelEU Maritime. Under the…

15 de abril de 2025.- Más de la mitad de los colombianos, el 53,7%, respalda la consulta popular que el Gobierno de Gustavo Petro pretende realizar tras el fracaso de la reforma laboral en el Congreso. Un reciente estudio de Datexco revela que el 53,7% de los colombianos apoya la consulta popula...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for upholding multilateral trade as he landed in Vietnam as part of a high-stakes tour of Southeast Asia's most export-reliant economies as he looks to capitalize on global trade tensions with the United States. The three-country visit, which begins with a two-day state visit to Vietnam on April 14, will also take Xi to Malaysia and Cambodia as he aims to emphasize China as a stable partner in contrast to the United States, which has imposed and then suspended punishing tariffs across the region and roiled global…