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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to meet with President Donald Trump this week to discuss the war against Iran and other issues.  According to Ynet, Netyahu and Trump will likely meet for the eighth time in the past 18 months this week or next. One of the Prime Minister’s top goals will be […]

75 Gulf Energy Assets Damaged In U.S.-Iran War As Supply Shock Intensifies International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol was interviewed by the French newspaper Le Figaro earlier on Tuesday and warned that the Gulf energy shock "is more severe than those of 1973, 1979, and 2022 combined" because it is affecting oil, gas, food, fertilizers, petrochemicals, helium, and global trade all at once. Birol said in the interview that more than 75 energy sites across the Gulf region have been attacked, with about a third severely damaged, suggesting tens...

Asia's Gold Producers Start Hoarding Their Own Metal As Faith In The Dollar Erodes For most of modern history, the gold trade worked one way: emerging-market mines dug it up, shipped it out (often as cheap ore, more often through the back door), and London and New York did the rest. But that arrangement is now quietly breaking down. According to a must-read report in Nikkei Asia, countries across Asia are moving to capture more of the value from the gold boom by refining domestically, taxing exports and having their central...