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Qatar Investment Authority doubles stake in Credit Suisse
29. 1. 2023 No Responses

Qatar Investment Authority doubles stake in Credit Suisse

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) now owns 6.8% of Credit Suisse’s shares, second only to the 9.9% stake purchased by the Saudi National Bank last year as part of a $4.2 billion capital raise. Combined with the 3.15% owned by...
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Saudis Confirm Non-Dollar Oil Trade Plans In Davos
20. 1. 2023 No Responses

Saudis Confirm Non-Dollar Oil Trade Plans In Davos

Earlier this month, former NY Fed repo guru Zoltan Pozsar wrote one of his most important reports of 2022, in which he described how Putin could unleash hell on the Western financial system by demanding that instead of dollars, Russian oil exporters...
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EU again postpones final vote on crypto-crackdown bill
19. 1. 2023 No Responses

EU again postpones final vote on crypto-crackdown bill

The final vote on the European Union’s (EU) much-awaited set of crypto rules, known as the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA), was deferred to April 2023. It marks the second delay in the final vote, which was previously postponed from...
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Freeport LNG Denies Reuters Report
12. 1. 2023 No Responses

Freeport LNG Denies Reuters Report

Freeport LNG has denied a Reuters report citing unnamed sources as saying that the restart of its Texas facility will be pushed back to February due to regulatory approval issues. On Wednesday, Reuters published a story citing three unnamed sources as saying...
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Russia Restores Output At Sakhalin-1 Oil Project After Exxon Exit
10. 1. 2023 No Responses

Russia Restores Output At Sakhalin-1 Oil Project After Exxon Exit

Russia has ramped up oil production from the Sakhalin-1 project and expects the field to soon pump at the full level of 220,000 barrels per day (bpd) after the project’s previous operator, U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil, quit Russian operations, an industry...
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Dozen Dead, Over 100,000 Without Power In California
9. 1. 2023 No Responses

Dozen Dead, Over 100,000 Without Power In California

A moisture conveyor belt of atmospheric rivers continues to pound storm-battered California as the latest system could be the most severe yet. Power outages plague Northern California, as a dozen people have died across the Golden State in the last two weeks...
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5 North Korean UAVs flew into South Korea
26. 12. 2022 No Responses

5 North Korean UAVs flew into South Korea

On the morning of December 26th, several North Korean UAVs crossed the demarcation line dividing the Korean peninsula and entered the airspace of South Korea. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of South Korea, several...
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EU Imposes The World’s Largest Carbon Tax Scheme
22. 12. 2022 No Responses

EU Imposes The World’s Largest Carbon Tax Scheme

To prevent “carbon leakage” the European Parliament Reached a Deal on a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, CBAM for short. An EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will be set up to equalise the price of carbon paid for EU products operati...
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BIS sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks
18. 12. 2022 No Responses

BIS sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks

Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) sets a limit of 2% on crypto reserves among commercial banks. The new standard limits crypto reserves among banks to 2% by 2025,...
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Borrell: EU military stockpiles ‘depleted’
12. 12. 2022 No Responses

Borrell: EU military stockpiles ‘depleted’

Josep Borrell – Vice-President of the European Commission: EU military stockpiles ‘depleted’ Darkest hour for warmongers – “Demilitarization of Ukraine” morphed into “Demilitarization of NATO”.  “We have given weapons...
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Dutch Gov’t Attempts To Forcibly Close 3,000 Farms To Comply With ‘Green’ Agenda
11. 12. 2022 No Responses

Dutch Gov’t Attempts To Forcibly Close 3,000 Farms To Comply With ‘Green’ Agenda

Dutch farmers protesting for months over the government’s radical ‘green’ plan to slash nitrogen emissions by 50% – 95% could soon face forced buyouts of their land. “For agricultural entrepreneurs, there will be a stopping schem...
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Wind auction nets $757M in California
8. 12. 2022 No Responses

Wind auction nets $757M in California

For the first time in history, the U.S. government on Tuesday started auctioning off sites for offshore wind development near America’s Pacific coast. The Bureau of Ocean Land Management (BOEM) took bids for the rights to develop wind turbines in...
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Germans banned from using nitrate fertilizers
5. 12. 2022 No Responses

Germans banned from using nitrate fertilizers

Farmers in Germany’s most populous state must severely rein in their use of certain fertilizing techniques under a new set of restrictions apparently aimed at making the industry more “green.” As of Thursday, farmers in North Rhine-Westphalia are requir...
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ANC ‘reformist’ president under fire after $580,000 found stuffed in a sofa
30. 11. 2022 No Responses

ANC ‘reformist’ president under fire after $580,000 found stuffed in a sofa

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s job has come into question after a report claiming that millions of dollars in cash were found at his private game farm. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, embroiled in scandal and under threat of impeachment, has no int...
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A Day In Ukraine Is A Month Or More In Afghanistan
27. 11. 2022 No Responses

A Day In Ukraine Is A Month Or More In Afghanistan

Two-thirds of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have depleted their stockpiles by sending weapons to Kiev, according to an alliance official. Even larger NATO states are struggling to meet the demands of Ukraine’s war effort. The New York Times.....
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