Russia's largest liquefied natural gas producer Novatek is expanding its fleet serving Arctic projects through the acquisition of ​at least two Arc4 ice-class LNG carriers, registration ‌and shipping ...

Britain seeks to stop private creditors delaying sovereign debt deals; Ethiopia has yet to settle with holders of its defaulted $1 billion Eurobond.

Six Democratic and six Republican senators wrote a letter calling on President Trump to withdraw from his recent deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management has added Nvidia's Jensen Huang and AMD's Lisa Su to its advisory board, a move the article reads as a signal of continued industry dialogue between China and global tech leaders despite export controls and geopolitical tensions.

With the midterms 20 days away, the Trump administration was confronted Wednesday with a “big escalation” in its war against Iran, geopolitical expert Brett Erickson warned, one that could soon send o...

Iran has escalated its strikes on commercial ships transiting Hormuz in recent weeks, as it tries to choke off a rebound in crude oil exports.

VSMC, the VIS–NXP joint venture, has opened Singapore's first 12-inch wafer fab, focusing on mature-node mixed-signal, power-management and analogue chips as well as silicon interposers. First-phase capacity is fully booked and mass production is due in Q1 2027.

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Global oil supply sharply rebounded in September, but the gains remain fragile because of increasing attacks on energy targets by Iran and the Yemen-based Houthis, the IEA said today.

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Iran is reportedly changing its tactics against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, while Saudi Arabia and the Houthis exchang...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung welcomed the PanStar Acro and its crew home on Tuesday after the container ship completed the country’s first round-trip

2026 Huawei Kirin Media Conference is underway, and the company revealed that it has shipped more than 100 million Kirin chips devices since 2023. That’s a big figure, especially as the US continues to tighten chip export controls on Chinese companies. The Minister of Wireless Device Chipset Product Management at Huawei, Xu Songyu, stated at […]

The IMF–World Bank meetings open in Bangkok under an energy shock from the closed Strait of Hormuz. Banga warns of fuel and fertilizer costs; developing countries fear IMF austerity conditions could spark unrest.

How precision warfare, Saudi vulnerability and new regional alignments are changing the balance of power in the Red Sea by Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd), BasisPointInsight.com

US authorities have imposed a $1.2 billion (€1.07bn) penalty on Bank of America over failures to tackle money laundering. The bank also settled alleged sanctions violations involving Iran and Russia.

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Russia’s crude oil production fell again in September, averaging 8.643 million barrels per day, according to OPEC data. That was 38,000 bpd below August, which itself was down 174,000 bpd from July. S...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung welcomed the PanStar Acro and its crew home on Tuesday after the container ship completed the country’s first round-trip commercial trial through the Arctic to Europe, hailing the voyage as a potential alternative to traditional shipping lanes even as questions …

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The IMF says risks in the government bond market have worsened and that yields could jump sharply and disorderly.

Over the weekend of October 11–12, 2026, CXMT President Dr. Cao Kanyu claimed China’s memory champion achieved a 4F² DRAM breakthrough using Vertical Surrounding Gate (VSG) transistors, targeting server DDR5 RDIMMs by year-end. This announcement triggered a 7% plunge in Samsung and SK Hynix shares.

Ahead of US polls, Iran shifts Hormuz attack tactics, report says Iran is deploying new tactics to target ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to keep oil prices high and influence the US midterm elections, two senior Iranian officials told Reuters. The two officials declined to provide details of the new strategy, but one said that Iran had started using different offensive tactics against vessels it considered in violation of its restrictions about 10 days ago, adding that this had led to an increase in attacks on such ships. The strategy included a change in the type as well as the pace of attacks, with one goal being to influence the outcome of the US vote, they said. "The aim is to frustrate efforts by the United States and its allies to bring down global oil prices," one of the two officials said. The decision to adopt the new strategy had been taken at the highest levels of Iran’s leadership and was fully coordinated across the country’s ruling system, the offi

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Strait of Hormuz in October 2026: 257 detected ship crossings, 17 outbound oil tankers, ~11.0 million barrels of seaborne oil. AIS-based monthly statistics.