Category: 1. Iran

The big picture:

President Donald Trump has escalated pressure on Nicolás Maduro, repeating accusations of drug trafficking and threatening military action.

According to the Niskanen Center, even limited airstrikes…

The story is not the “death of religion,” as it may appear from social media snippets depicting once unheard of public concerts and women spurning the mandatory hijab, but a fundamental reordering of how Iranians relate to faith.

Recent…

Dec 8 : Most global brokerages expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to deliver an interest rate cut this week, with Nomura and Standard Chartered being the latest, reversing their earlier stand of the central bank holding rates amid dovish signals….

Dec 8 : Netflix’s $72 billion Warner Bros deal led to several price target cuts by Wall Street analysts as U.S. President Donald Trump warned of market-share concerns, underscoring the tough scrutiny that the acquisition is likely to face.

The…

HOUSTON, Dec 8 : Oil prices slipped 2 per cent on Monday after Iraq restored production at one of its oilfields which accounts for 0.5 per cent of world oil supply, while investors weighed ongoing talks to end the war in Ukraine. 

Brent crude…

Dec 8 : U.S. utility company NextEra Energy has expanded its partnership with Alphabet’s Google Cloud to build new energy supplies for the company’s operations across the U.S., the groups said on Monday.

NextEra and Google currently have 3.5…

Dec 7 : Robinhood Markets will acquire Indonesian brokerage firm Buana Capital Sekuritas and licensed digital asset trader Pedagang Aset Kripto, marking the retail trading platform’s entry into one of Southeast Asia’s major crypto hubs, the…

NEW DELHI, Dec 8 : Japan’s top power generator JERA has signed its first long-term liquefied natural gas export deal with India’s Torrent Power to deliver 4 LNG cargoes annually for 10 years from 2027, the Japanese company said on Monday.

Torrent…

Dec 7 : IBM is in advanced talks to acquire data-infrastructure company Confluent for about $11 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, in a move aimed at boosting Big Blue’s ability to capture growing demand for cloud services.

The…

BERLIN, Dec 8 : Only a handful of automotive companies are likely to sustain ambitious artificial intelligence investment in the coming years, a study released on Monday showed, raising doubts over whether current industry “euphoria” will deliver…