3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (82+ words) Emma Cline’s ‘gut-twisting’ new novel about a former executive’s journey to Zurich for medically assisted suicide. This novel follows the final days of a wealthy executive, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, on his way to Switzerland to be euthanized It is…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (492+ words) View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand Semafor View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand One lesson from the return of crude oil prices back above $100 per barrel is that US President Donald Trump seems to…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (456+ words) View / Oil executives are anxious about Venezuela Semafor View / Oil executives are anxious about Venezuela Big Oil companies have always moonlighted as geopolitical risk assessment firms. That capability faces a big test now. It takes guts to thrive in the…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (166+ words) Semafor Oil importers less vulnerable to supply shocks than expected Maritime shipping lanes may not be the most important chokepoint facing the global oil market. The evidence of the past few months suggests that most oil-importing countries are less economically…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (464+ words) Venezuela is not just another member of OPEC. It is one of the group’s five founders, present when the organization was conceived in Baghdad in 1960 as a counterweight to the “Seven Sisters,” the Western oil majors that held the upper…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (194+ words) The company, whose 700,000 barrels-a-day oil plant is Africa’s largest, is set to raise about $1.6 billion. The Dangote Refinery has secured the approval of Nigeria’s securities regulator to launch an initial public offering on the stock exchange in Lagos The…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (133+ words) semafor.com Beijing to inject $45 billion into banks and insurers China will inject $45 billion into its largest banks and insurers, its biggest recapitalization push in decades as Beijing looks to boost the country’s faltering economy. China’s growth target is already…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (727+ words) Saudi Arabia’s deepest crude discount since the pandemic points to deeper divisions within the world’s most important oil group, and potentially to Riyadh’s mounting anxiety about losing market share. Saudi Aramco has priced its flagship Arab Light crude for Asian…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (145+ words) Washington recently took a stake in a firm in an effort to tap the world’s largest oil reserves and tame fuel prices at home. Venezuela’s August crude exports jumped almost 30% from the previous month, as the Trump administration prepares…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (185+ words) The deputy ruler of Abu Dhabi is a major shareholder in the holding company of a new US bank linked to World Liberty Financial. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed reportedly has interests in two stablecoin initiatives, one in the US and…...