Tracking The Last UK-Bound Jet Fuel Tanker As Shortages Near

Newly elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va, and her Democratic-controlled state legislature set their sights firmly on the Second Amendment after taking office earlier this year. The Governor signed a litany of bills into law including a ban on the sale and manufacturing of so-called “assault weapons,” including the wildly popular AR-15, and a ban on […]

Three Levers China Is Pulling To Weather Gulf Energy Shock; How Long Can Beijing Hold Out? The new troubling development is that maritime chokepoint chaos spread overnight from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, where Iran-backed Houthis targeted two Saudi Arabian tankers. The attacks expose yet another maritime chokepoint and risk further physical market tightening, forcing traders to price a larger war-risk premium into Brent crude futures and pushing the benchmark above $100 a barrel Thursday morning. Oil headed to Asia generally does not flow through both chokepoints....

America’s Gulf Arab allies, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are pushing President Donald Trump to continue the war against Iran until a decisive outcome is reached.  According to US, Gulf, and Israeli officials speaking with The Associated Press, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain have argued that the US needs […]