Two contradictory forces are shaping the 2026 oil market simultaneously: a structural glut large enough to keep prices depressed for...
On July 15, 2026, during a routine Chinese foreign ministry press briefing, spokesperson comments took on unusual significance for global energy and trade watchers: Beijing strongly...
Global oil markets are unwinding one of the sharpest supply shocks in decades as tanker traffic resumes through the Strait of Hormuz following a US-Iran memorandum...
Gasoline shortages have begun appearing at filling stations in and around Moscow, a striking domestic symptom of strain in an economy the Kremlin has long held...
Pakistan’s petrol price hit Rs. 316.15 per litre by mid-July 2026 as global crude climbed toward $89 a barrel following disruption in the Strait of Hormuz....
Gulf oil producers are fast-tracking at least seven new or expanded pipelines — from Iraq’s Kirkuk-Baniyas line through Syria to the UAE’s second Fujairah link —...
Tankers stranded in the Persian Gulf during the US-Iran conflict have sat idle long enough for warm-water barnacles, algae and marine growth to colonize their hulls,...
Four years into a sanctions regime designed to choke off the revenue funding Russia’s war in Ukraine, 2026 has produced an outcome few architects of that...
Markets have a habit of treating a crisis as “priced in” the moment the headlines fade. That instinct may be badly wrong this time. According to...
Russia’s GDP contracted 0.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, and full-year growth projections have been cut to just 0.4%, worse than 2025’s 1% expansion...