Oil retreated from nearly two-month highs as traders weighed weakening physical markets and escalating tensions in the Middle East. Barrels of Brent and West Texas intermediate, WTI, fell and were trading near US$86 and US$81 per barrel, respectively.. Oil remains in a tight range as markets show rising US supplies and the Chinese economy appears ...
The holding company of Turkish billionaire Robert Yuksel Yildirim signed an investment of US$750 millionfor the construction of an ammonia plant in eastern Venezuela, according to a senior government official. Venezuela’s state petrochemical company, known as Pequivén, signed an agreement with Grupo Yildirim for the construction of a plant that plans to produce 600,000 tons ...
French inflation slowed slightly, reinforcing the European Central Bank’s decision to start cutting record interest rates and offers a positive point in economic terms for President Emmanuel Macron two days before the legislative elections. Consumer prices in the euro zone’s second-largest economy rose 2.5% in June from a year earlier, after advancing 2.6% the previous ...
The situation on Wednesday in La Paz, Bolivia, put all eyes on what seemed to be a coup against President Luis Arce. A failed attempt by the former commander of the Armed Forces, Juan José Zúñiga by overthrowing the president, revealed a crisis, which is not only political, but also permeates the Bolivian economy. With ...
USA is closely monitoring the situation in Bolivia and urges calm and moderationa spokesman for the White House National Security Council said Wednesday. Bolivian armed forces took control of the capital’s central square early Wednesday, and An armored vehicle stormed the entrance to the presidential palace followed by soldiers who ran inraising fears of a ...
A McDonald’s test of its plant-based burger in San Francisco and Dallas “was not successful in either market,” said Joe Erlinger, the network’s U.S. chief executive, on Wednesday. American consumers are not looking for “McPlant or other plant-based proteins from McDonald’s,” Erlinger said at the Wall Street Journal’s World Food Forum in Chicago. Following the ...
Looking ahead to the first presidential debate between the president, Joe Biden, and the former president and again candidate, Donald Trump, they arrive with a technical tie in terms of the voting intention of the voters of the American Union. According to the most recent survey conducted by YouGov and sponsored by The Economist, the ...
Bolivian President Luis Alberto Arce Catacora denounced an attempted military coup, in your X account, He pointed to “irregular mobilizations of some army units” and armed forces gathering in Plaza Murillo in La Paz. In addition, the statements of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS, Luis Almagro, condemning the events by ...
Julian Assange landed in Australia for the first time in more than a decade, after pleading guilty in a US court that allowed him to return to his home country a free man after serving time in a UK prison and taking refuge in the embassy. Ecuadorian. Assange landed in the capital city of Canberra ...
The Mexican state oil company imported 11% more gasoline in May than the previous month, a sign that it is struggling to meet President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s goal of making the nation self-sufficient in refining. Gasoline imports from Petróleos Mexicanos grew to 358,500 barrels a day in May, according to data released Monday. This ...
