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Kazakhstan Suspends Major Oil Exports as Black Sea Risks Escalate

India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous The leading economics blog online covering financial issues, geopolitics and trading. Fo...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read

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India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous

US Crude Oil Inventories Build As Hormuz Shipping Headache Drags On What I Cover Julianne Geiger is a veteran energy journalist and market analyst wit...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read

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U.S. Says China Has Slashed Iranian Oil Purchases by 40%

India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous What I Cover Julianne Geiger is a veteran energy journalist and market analyst with more...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read

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Why Kyrgyz Citizens Are Turning Against China's Growing Footprint

India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous RFE/RL journalists report the news in 21 countries where a free press is banned by the g...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read

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September Brent Breaks $90, RBOB Gasoline near Peak

Houthis have now said they intend to blockade Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-launches-iran-strikes-ninth-d...

Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

Noise?

The timing seems off to me, as on apparent new news within the last hour (as of 4pm CT)… Inefficient market? These markets are small enough ($6 millio...

Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

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EPU Jumps

Figure 1: EPU (blue),  7 day centered moving average (red). Source: policyuncertainty.com and author’s calculations. The distinction between policy un...

Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

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U.S. Scientists Tap Seawater to Break China's Rare Earth Monopoly

India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of...

Jul 18, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Still Gloomy: Consumers in the Michigan Survey

Continued rebound for sample June 23 to July 13 — which largely predates the resumed increase in gasoline prices. Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentim...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

China Macro Indicators, As Reported

Catching up with the news overseas, China downside surprise: Goldman Sachs on the official statistics:  China’s real GDP growth slowed to a weaker-tha...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Industrial, Manufacturing Production and Business Cycle Indicators

Along with GDPNow. Industrial production under consensus (+0.1% m/m ov +0.2% Bloomberg consensus), while manufacturing is flat (+0.0% vs. +0.1% consen...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

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Colombia's New Government Prepares Fossil Fuel Comeback

India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption Felicity Bradstock is a writer and journalist based in Mexico City. She writes f...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

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India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption

India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for S...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

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New Jersey Bets Big on Small Nuclear Reactors

India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

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BP, ConocoPhillips Partner In Iraq’s Giant Oilfield

India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for S...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

PPI and CPI, Again

On Monday, Justin Ho on Marketplace had a piece on producer prices. He covered several interesting questions, including the implications of a PPI risi...

Jul 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Monthly GDP Drops for Two Consecutive Months

S&P Global Markets Insights monthly GDP (formerly IHS, Macroeconomic Advisers) online today. Here is monthly GDP againnst other NBER BCDC measures: Fi...

Jul 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Jencap parent announces leadership appointments

Galway Specialty Wholesale, the parent company of wholesaler Jencap Group, on Tuesday announced a series of leadership appointments across the organiz...

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

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Simpson Thacher adds three partners to insurance team

New York-based Simpson Thacher and Bartlett added three partners to its insurance transactional and regulatory team.

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

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$25 million lawsuit over paid leave as an accommodation dismissed

A federal court on Monday dismissed a Department of Homeland Security special agent’s disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, ruling that p...

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read