The U.S. Treasury Department has unleashed a sweeping wave of sanctions targeting a sprawling network of companies and individuals accused of facilitating Iranian oil and petrochemical exports in violation of existing sanctions. The action, announced Friday, strikes at the financial and logistical infrastructure underpinning Iran’s shadow energy trade—particularly its crude exports to Asia. At the center of the designations is Nasser Zarrin Ghalam and Partners Company, based in Tehran, which U.S. authorities say orchestrates illicit…

The U.S. Treasury Department has unleashed a sweeping wave of sanctions targeting a sprawling network of companies and individuals accused of facilitating Iranian oil and petrochemical exports in violation of existing sanctions. The action, announced Friday, strikes at the financial and logistical infrastructure underpinning Iran’s shadow energy trade—particularly its crude exports to Asia. At the center of the designations is Nasser Zarrin Ghalam and Partners Company, based in Tehran, which U.S. authorities say orchestrates illicit…

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Así se ve un glóbulo blanco humano persiguiendo a una bacteria Los avances de la ciencia no dejan de sorprendernos nos referimos a la publicación de un video en el que puede apreciarse como un glóbulo blanco persigue a una bacteria hasta que consigue envorverla. ...

6 de junio de 2025.- El secretario general del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, anunció que este 7 de junio se llevarán a cabo las asambleas de bases de postulación en las comunidades del país de cara a las elecciones municipales el próximo 27 de julio. Durante una rueda d...

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- "Powell está consiguiendo una pendiente de la curva del mercado terrible que nunca había ocurrido" Sigue el choque Powell-Trump, con el desafío de la FED de mantener los tipos de interés ante la presión del presidente de EEUU de bajar los tipos. Jerome Powell no ne...

ICE Brent is poised to close the week above $66 as trade optimism lifts sentiment, while stubborn geopolitical tensions and shifting wildfire risks keep supply concerns alive. June 6th, 2025 ICE Brent futures are set to close this week above $66 per barrel, a more than 3% weekly gain after markets were buoyed by the prospect of US-China trade talks all the while derailed US-Iran and Russia-Ukraine negotiations have kept geopolitical risk premia intact. Supply risks from Canada’s wildfires seem to be subsiding after Alberta saw some rain earlier…

The fuel economy standards issued under former President Biden exceeded legal authority, the U.S. Department of Transportation said on Friday. Under the so-called Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program (CAFE), the Biden Administration included electric vehicles (EVs) in calculating fuel economy regulations. Now the Trump Administration published a ‘Resetting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program’ rule, in which it declared that the Biden-era rule and rule-making exceeded legal authority. Last month, Transportation Secretary Sean…

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Daniel Baeza analiza el papel creciente de China en la economía global y su influencia estratégica en el sistema financiero. Se plantea que China, aunque desde Occidente aún no se le preste la suficiente atención, ya compite de tú a tú con Estados Unidos en una guerra...

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Vino Jorge Castro, uno de los analistas geopolíticos más prestigiosos de nuestro país (Argentina). Hablamos de todo: el rol de China y EE.UU. en el tablero global, el lugar y el futuro de Argentina y los cambios que sacuden al mundo de hoy. Una charla clave, llena de ...

Wary of the ‘Hockey Stick’, Oil Traders Hedge Their 2025 Exposure - Open interest in WTI calendar spread options - contracts that see market participants bid on the future value of crude oil futures across different delivery months – has reached an all-time high as traders expect this year’s assumed oversupply to only materialize in 2026. - The prompt spread between July and August was trading around $0.90 per barrel for most of this week, whilst the difference between December 2025 and December 2026 was a mere $0.50 per…

.El viceministro de Políticas Antibloqueo, William Castillo, informó a través de la red social X que el despojo de Citgo a la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, fue materializado por un juzgado estadounidense, que se valió de la complicidad de la extrema derecha venezolana, para maquillar de ...

La vicepresidenta de la República, Delcy Rodríguez, aseguró que "Venezuela no reconocerá ninguna sentencia de la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) o de otro organismos internacional sobre el Esequibo", y defenderá el Tratado de Ginebra como único mecanismo para resolver la contro...

Viernes, 06 de junio de 2025.- Kremlin: "Rusia ha destruido toda la chatarra que hemos enviado a Ucrania en el primer año" Eduardo Irastorza, profesor OBS Business School, resalta el carácter simbólico y político de la decisión de Mertz, interpretándola como un gesto desesperado por parte de Alem...

La ministra de Comercio Exterior de Venezuela, Coromoto Godoy, se reunió este miércoles con el embajador de Irán, Alí Chegini, para evaluar los avances en la cooperación comercial entre ambos países. En una publicación en Instagram, Godoy destacó que el encuentro sirvió para analiza...

HSBC’s forecast that Brent Crude prices would remain around $65 per barrel later this year could be too optimistic as OPEC+ continues to raise production, which will result in a bigger-than-expected surplus after the summer ends. “Our new scenario assumes regular hikes from October to December and leaves the 2.2mbd of voluntary cuts fully unwound by the end of 2025,” the bank said in a note on Friday carried by Reuters. OPEC+ producers have just said they would boost July production by another 411,000 barrels per day (bpd), citing…

Venezuela hasn’t waited long to replace Western service providers in its oil industry after the U.S. sanctions, and has signed at least nine agreements with foreign firms, including from China, sources with knowledge of the deals told Bloomberg. Under the U.S. sanctions, Western oil producers were given time until May to wrap up their operations in Venezuela, home to the world’s biggest crude oil reserves. U.S. licenses for the biggest oilfield service providers – Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Weatherford International…

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict On June 1, Ukraine executed Operation Spiderweb, a meticulously planned drone offensive targeting five Russian airbases, including facilities in Siberia. The operation reportedly damaged or destroyed approximately 34% of Russia's strategic bomber fleet, including nuclear-capable aircraft, marking a significant escalation in Ukraine's military capabilities. In retaliation, Russia launched a massive missile and drone assault across Ukraine on June 6, with Kyiv experiencing one of the deadliest attacks since April.…

Turkey is back in the spotlight this week, and Erdogan is at it again. This time, he’s gotten rid of five more opponents as he rather brazenly and publicly picks off his rivals one by one (or in this case, five by five). On Thursday, Erdogan fired five district mayors from the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), allegedly for corruption. That move is intended to shore up his previous move in March to arrest Istanbul’s Mayor, Ekrem ?mamo?lu, his most dangerous political rival, on alleged financial crimes charges. That single…

On the surface, this is not a good time to be investing in alternative energy in the US. The current White House administration is not just pro-fossil fuel but often seems to be actively opposed to alternative and “green” energy.  However, as the recent support for nuclear power, or at least the small modular reactor version of it, shows, that really isn’t the case. Donald Trump may have a curious hatred of wind turbines but other than that, this administration does understand that the energy demands of a modern industrialized…

Light crude oil futures rallied this week, closing Thursday at $63.37 per barrel—up approximately 4.2%—as the market digested a cocktail of bullish catalysts. Traders responded to unplanned supply disruptions in Canada, measured output policies from OPEC+, and escalating geopolitical tensions, while contending with uncertain demand signals and trade-related optimism. OPEC+ Holds Course as Saudi Arabia Defends Market Share OPEC+ stuck to its plan of a 411,000 barrel per day increase for July, reassuring traders who feared a steeper hike…