Eisenkot Refuses To Join US-Backed 'Unity Government' With Netanyahu

Europe Dodges A Rhine Crisis For The Worst Possible Reason Authored by Natalia Katona via OilPrice.com, Rhine freight from ARA to Karlsruhe has surged from €45/t to €215/t as Kaub remains below the 77-cm threshold needed for normal commercial traffic. The squeeze is disrupting 3.1 million t/y of ethylene capacity and product movements from the 320,000-b/d Miro refinery. Europe is avoiding a deeper crisis only because crackers are running at around 70% and fuel demand is weak. The Rhine has slightly risen from its mid-August record low (when Kaub's water level gauge - at...

Global Oil Demand Growth Completely Wiped Out By Gulf Energy Shock The global demand destruction playbook we outlined last month, describing how the Gulf energy shock would spread across continents, is now materializing on a large scale. The International Energy Agency said in a Tuesday update that global oil demand will decline this year for the first time since 2020. "The Iran war has thoroughly upended the global outlook for oil consumption," the IEA wrote in its Oil Market Report. "Demand destruction will spread as scarcity and higher prices persist." The IEA...

Older Britons Are Working Longer As Youth Unemployment Rises Britain has a strange labor problem: the people who have spent decades working increasingly aren’t leaving, while the people trying to begin their careers increasingly can’t get in, according to Bloomberg. More than 1.7 million people over 65 are now employed in the UK, the highest level on record. Meanwhile, youth unemployment is hovering near a decade-plus high, and nearly one million people between 16 and 24 are neither employed nor in school. The demographic shift is dramatic. About two decades ago, there...