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- Opinion
- Middle East at war
Markets are down on Iran war, but the slump could be a lot worse
Investors’ relatively calm response to the attack on Iran will be short-lived if the hostilities drag on.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
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- Explainer
- Petrol prices
The narrow strip of water off Iran affecting petrol prices
About a fifth of the world’s oil and LNG passes through the Strait of Hormuz every day. What happens when a war breaks out across it – and how does it affect petrol prices?
- Angus Holland, Jackson Graham and Madeleine Heffernan
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
Dire straits: The oil industry is facing its worst nightmare
The US-Israeli assault on Iran has brought into sharp focus a critical choke point for global shipping.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Explainer
- Venezuela crisis
Once the epitome of glamour, Venezuela is in crisis. How did it get to this?
After months of military build-up, the US attacked Venezuela and took President Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody. Why might this intervention feel like deja vu?
- Angus Holland, Jackson Graham and Felicity Lewis
- Analysis
- Venezuela crisis
The former bus driver who squeezed the life out of Latin America’s richest nation
Nicolás Maduro’s arrest by US special forces ends an unlikely 13-year presidency dressed up in myths and lies.
- Simeon Tegel
- Opinion
- Fossil fuels
The future is electric: Hot metals are exposing the fossil fuel fantasy
Drill, baby, drill: The arrival of the revanchist Trump administration was seen by the carbon industry as an opportunity to demonstrate fossil fuels’ indispensability to the world. It didn’t work out that way.
- David Fickling and Ruth Pollard
- Opinion
- Oil
America’s new sanctions on Russian oil may be biting too late
Had the West focused earlier on the flow, rather than the price, of Russian oil exports, the outcome of the war in Ukraine might have been very different.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
Blacklisted: Trump puts the squeeze on Putin
The US decision to sanction two Russian oil giants was perfectly timed and is set to affect Putin’s ability to conduct the war the way he wants.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Energy
Trump dealt a blow as the world is flooded with oil
The OPEC+ oil cartel is trying to take back control of the market with a strategy that might be self-destructive. It also undermines a key plank of Donald Trump’s economic strategy.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
The alarm bells should be ringing louder in markets
From the Middle East crisis to Trump’s trade wars and everything in between, investors are seemingly ignoring the escalating risks growing for markets. They may live to regret it.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz