U.S. engaged in indirect diplomacy with Iran
The United States and Iran have begun indirect diplomacy with Europeans and others conveying messages about how they might resume compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Oil Prices Slip As U.S. Rig Count Falls
Baker Hughes reported on Friday that the number of oil and gas rigs in the United States fell by 1 this week. The total number of active oil and gas rigs in the U.S. is now at 402—or 390 fewer than this time last year.
Oil Prices Drop As Traders Take Profits
Speculators have been selling oil over the past two weeks as prices continue higher and the appetite for profit-taking increases.
CIA Policy Has Changed
In the news reports I read that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, March 3 approved veteran U.S. diplomat William Burns as the new U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director.
Another gold price spike ‘is coming’
There is an "over-exuberance" in the financial markets right now with investors piling into assets that don't have any real value, said Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow, adding that gold price will see another spike higher.
Brent crude breaks $70 after Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities attacked by Yemen’s Houthis
International benchmark Brent crude futures popped on Monday, moving above $70 a barrel for the first time in more than a year.
OPEC+ Surprise Sends Oil Past Gulf Budget-Balancing Levels
Oil soared past fiscal breakeven prices for the Middle East’s four biggest producers after OPEC+ kept output largely unchanged and an attack on a highly protected Saudi Arabian oil facility.
Russia, Turkey Want to Salvage Iran Nuclear Deal
Russia and Turkey both see a ‘window of opportunity’ to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement and have called on the US to lift crippling sanctions imposed against Tehran.
US Ain al-Asad base targeted with Katyusha rockets: report
Iraqi sources reported that the US military base in Ain al-Asad was targeted by rockets.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail for corruption
When the verdict came, it reduced the Paris court to a stunned silence: Nicolas Sarkozy was guilty of corruption and influence-peddling and sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended.