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Standard Chartered Says Hormuz Oil Flows Are Far From Normal
Standard Chartered Says Hormuz Oil Flows Are Far From Normal
Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com,
Gulf oil exports rebounded to roughly 16.5 million bpd in September, near pre-war levels, despite only 60% of those barrels crossing Hormuz versus 83% before the war.
Exporters have adapted through pipelines, bypass ports and extensive ship-to-ship transfers, but the system is more expensive, inefficient and increasingly stretched, with elevated freight and security costs.
Iran’s ability to choke off regional oil exports has weakened, while its own seaborne crude exports have fallen from around 1.7 million...
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Jun 2, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17%
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The market may be in full-blown face-ripping bubble mode, and software stocks are now gripped in by a category 5 gamma squeeze hurricane, but not even that is helping the ongoing debacle that is private credit.
The flagship private credit fund of Cliffwater, a fund which has was slammed by redemption requests in the past quarter as the private credit crisis came to a fore, has again gated investors by capping redemptions at 5% in...
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Apr 24, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Iran FM Expected In Islamabad, But Will Not Meet With US Side, As US Prepared To Attack Mine-Laying Boats
Iran FM Expected In Islamabad, But Will Not Meet With US Side, As US Prepared To Attack Mine-Laying Boats
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Avalanche of Friday morning headlines speculating on Iran FM travel to Pakistan, and potential US delegating arriving too - Iranians will just engage Pakistan mediators in this visit.
Third US aircraft carrier, the George HW Bush, has finally arrived in Mideast regional waters after taking the long way around Africa.
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May 18, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The Too-Long Goodbye
The Too-Long Goodbye
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
“. . . we are witnessing mass formation in real time, where the group delusion becomes the only permissible reality.”
- LH Grey on X
Last week, Stephen Colbert celebrated his May 21 departure from late-night TV by French-kissing his fellow late-night soul-mate hosts goodbye, perhaps to honor the French origins of the Woke political ideology that guided his rocket flight to fame — Michel Foucault (1926–1984), who argued that power was all that mattered and that you could talk any absurdity about sex,...
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