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...
Oil markets spent Tuesday whipsawing between a one-month high and a partial retreat after President Donald Trump first threatened a 20% “reimbursement fee” on all cargo...
Every textbook says the same thing: when oil prices fall, inflation cools, and central banks get room to cut rates. In the second half of 2026,...
The June 17, 2026 US-Iran ceasefire is officially over, and global equity markets from New York to Seoul to London are recalibrating for a second wave...
Brent crude posted its steepest one-day gain since May 2020 on July 13, 2026, after President Donald Trump announced the United States would reimpose a naval...
Russia’s crude oil export revenues nearly doubled from $9.75 billion in February 2026 to $19 billion in March, driven paradoxically by the very Middle East crisis...
One of the least-covered consequences of the Western sanctions campaign against Russia is a quiet but historically significant shift in which currency actually settles global oil...
If you’ve followed headlines about the Strait of Hormuz over the past several months, you’d be forgiven for losing track of whether it’s actually open. That...
On June 29, a tanker called the Sierra pulled into the Indonesian port of Balikpapan carrying just under 770,000 barrels of Russian crude oil, worth roughly...
For months, the story of the global fuel market has been the Strait of Hormuz. Now there’s a second front, and it’s coming from a completely...