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08.01.26 - 09:36
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US To Control Venezuelan Oil ′Indefinitely′; Iran Protests | Horizons Middle East & Africa 1/8/2026 (Bloomberg)
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The US plans to control future sales of Venezuelan oil indefinitely, with President Donald Trump saying the country will use revenue only to buy US-made goods. Also on the show: Bloomberg News has learned Russia targeted South African video gamers as part of a recruitment drive for its war in Ukraine; Iran's president has ordered security forces not to target peaceful protesters; Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share Index jumped as much as 2.5% on Wednesday; Samsung says its 4Q profit more than tripled to a record high. Guests include: Jun Bei Liu, Ten Cap, Founder; Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Control Risks, Senior Analyst. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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07.01.26 - 09:19
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Trump′s Venezuela Oil Play; Saudi Opens Up Stock Market | Horizons Middle East & Africa 1/7/2026 (Bloomberg)
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US President Donald Trump says Venezuela will send the US as much as 50M barrels of oil. Also on the show: Nvidia and Siemens are expanding their partnership using AI to transform industrial systems; President Trump is not ruling out the use of military force to acquire Greenland; Saudi Arabia is moving to open its real estate market to foreign buyers; Saudi is also opening its stock market to all foreign investors. Guests include: Maurice Gravier, Emirates NBD, Group Chief Investment Officer for Wealth Management; Rachel Ziemba, Ziemba Insights, Founder. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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06.01.26 - 18:24
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Cuba′s Security-State Colonization In Americas, Proven By Delta Force Killing 32 Intel Agents Surrounding Maduro (ZeroHedge)
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Cuba's Security-State Colonization In Americas, Proven By Delta Force Killing 32 Intel Agents Surrounding Maduro
Submitted by The Bureau's Michael Lima,
For years, the Cuban regime has insisted that its presence in Venezuela was benign—limited to doctors, nurses, and sports trainers offering humanitarian solidarity. The deaths of 32 Cuban military and intelligence personnel while defending Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro have now shattered that fiction.
As early as March 2019, Cuba's ambassador to Canada, Josefina Vidal, appeared on CBC News to denounce Canadian reporting on Cuba's security intervention in Venezuela. She dismissed the claims outright: “The assertion that thousands of Cubans would allegedly be inserted into the structures of the armed and security forces of Venezuela, supporting the government of (legitimate) President Nicolás Maduro, is a scandalous slander,” she said, demanding proof.
Today, that proof is unmistakable. These men did not die treating patients or...
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05.01.26 - 15:45
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Stocks, Gold, Bitcoin All Jump As Venezuela Concerns Outweighted By AI Optimism (ZeroHedge)
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Stocks, Gold, Bitcoin All Jump As Venezuela Concerns Outweighted By AI Optimism
Global stocks, US futures, gold, the dollar and bitcoin all rose after the purge of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro fanned geopolitical risk, while renewed momentum in the AI trade powered tech heavyweights in Asian hours. As of 8:15am ET, S&P futures were up 0.3% while Nasdaq futures gained 0.6%, with chip stocks such as AMD, Micron Technology and Intel gaining more than 3% in premarket trading. . In Europe, the Stoxx 600 rose 0.4% and was on course for a record close with most of the upside coming from a handful of sectors. Tech stocks are leading, as they did in Asia overnight. Spot gold advanced nearly 2% to climb above $4,410 an ounce, while silver jumped more than 3%. A gauge of the dollar headed for its biggest gain in two weeks. The US economic calendar includes December ISM manufacturing at 10am; ahead this week are S&P Global US services PMI, ADP employment change, ISM services index, JOLTS ...
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16.12.25 - 08:06
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A hurricane destroyed their homes in Jamaica. Now they fear losing the jobs they rely on in the US (The Guardian)
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Thousands of Jamaican workers who come to the US on an H-2A visa say they aren't sure if they'll be able to return from one year to the nextFarm worker Owen Salmon has picked apples in upstate New York for almost a decade, some 1,500 miles (2,400km) from home. In the midst of harvest season this year, Hurricane Melissa, a record-breaking category 5 hurricane, made landfall in Jamaica.“It was terrifying,” said Salmon, whose wife and two children were at home near Black River, a town on the country's south-western coast. “For days, I couldn't hear from them. When I finally did, I heard my roof was completely gone. My wife and kids had to run for their lives, but thank God they're alive.” Continue reading......
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04.12.25 - 07:42
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NTT DATA To Acquire Brazil SPRO IT Solutions (AFX)
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TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - NTT DATA Group Corp. (NTDTY, 3850.T), a Japanese IT and business services company, on Thursday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a SAP provider in the agribusi......
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29.11.25 - 10:30
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OT vulnerabilities push cybersecurity to core competency in manufacturing (Digitimes)
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As global supply chains realign and tariff barriers rise, Taiwan's manufacturing sector—at the heart of this storm—feels the uncertainty acutely. At the Fortinet Cybersecurity Carnival 2025 held on November 26, 2025, in Taipei, IDC senior research analyst Yvette Lin stressed that amid geopolitical tensions and rising operating costs, manufacturers must treat cybersecurity not as a simple cost of protection but as a core competitive advantage that ensures uninterrupted production and reinforces operational resilience....
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