Alaska’s oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic
When John Kurz left Alaska’s North Slope in 2009, he was staring at a grim future for what had once ...
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The more generous U.S. ceasefire terms are, the more suspicious Iran becomes about another attack
Iran’s regime may be wondering if an emerging deal to extend its ceasefire with the U.S. is too good to ...
As U.S.-Iran deal nears, Trump ally warns against creating perception Tehran controls Hormuz
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is near, but a top ally ...
Markets jittery as oil crisis bleeds into debt selloff, while Trump weighs military options on Iran
Stock futures dipped Sunday as investors were forced to confront the inconvenient reality that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed ...
U.S. allows Russia oil sales waiver to expire despite tight market
The Trump administration allowed a waiver that encouraged more Russian crude sales to lapse, even as the Iran war stokes ...
How Trump’s ‘unusual’ brokerage account traded around his own market-moving decisions
On Feb. 10, an AI founder named Matt Shumer published a 5,000-word essay arguing that most of the world was ...
Current price of oil as of May 11, 2026
As of 8:55 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil sold for $107.67 per barrel (using Brent as the benchmark, which we’ll ...
Markets dip as US-Iran ceasefire goes nowhere, leaving Trump with a military option to reopen Hormuz
Hopes for a peace deal with Iran waned on Sunday, raising the risk that the global energy crisis will drag ...
Iran war is draining world’s oil buffer at an unprecedented pace
The world has burned through oil inventories at a record speed as the Iran war throttles flows from the Persian ...
Markets on alert as Trump vows Project Freedom for Hormuz after renewed attacks on ships
Financial markets were muted on Sunday as investors were reluctant to bite on the latest well-timed social media post from ...
Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz, but Trump seems unlikely to accept
Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade on the country and ...
‘Tethered to a galaxy far, far away’: former diplomats doubt Trump’s Iran talks can deliver in time
Sometime on Tuesday, two New York real estate developers will walk into a hotel in Islamabad to try to end ...
Markets shudder as Hormuz becomes a combat zone. ‘We’re prepared to subject you to disabling fire’
Stock futures tumbled and oil prices jumped on Sunday after hopes that the Strait of Hormuz would fully reopen were ...
The US is ready to seize Iran-linked ships with boarding parties, as Marines practice maritime raids
Conditions for the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran deteriorated on Saturday as the Strait of Hormuz became more ...
Iran’s Hormuz whiplash highlights divided regime. ‘The fight between different factions has started’
Iran’s military declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again on Saturday after a head-spinning 24 hours of mixed messages from ...
Russian warship & sanctioned oil tanker sail through the English Channel ‘on way to break Trump’s Cuba blockade’
A RUSSIAN warship and sanctioned oil tanker has sailed through the English channel and is potentially headed for Cuba. The ...
Trump reveals secret ‘discombobulator’ weapon used in Maduro raid as Don says US has taken oil from seized tankers
DONALD Trump has revealed the existence of a secret new weapon called “The Discombobulator” that was crucial to the capture ...
US seizes another oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast & warns ‘we will stop you’
DONALD Trump ordered the capture of another oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a dramatic early morning operation. ...
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