Posts Tagged ‘brent’

Brent hits six-week high as U.S.-Saudi talks raise risk for Iran

Bloomberg | Heesu Lee and Grant Smith: Brent crude extended gains as investors assessed geopolitical risks, with speculation that the U.S. president and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince discussed countering the influence of Middle East producer Iran. Futures rose as much as 1.2 percent to a six-week high, after advancing 2.1 percent on Tuesday. Donald Trump hinted at […]

Iran moves up in FIFA rankings

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian national football team moved up three places to reach No. 39 in the latest FIFA rankings announced on Thursday. Team Melli remains the best Asian Football Confederation team, followed by South Korea (50), Japan (53rd) and Australia (59th). Iran has been pooled in Group A in the final Asian qualifying […]

Iran in talks to build LNG tankers

Iran is in talks with France, Germany and Belgium for construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, head of the country’s tanker company says. Shipping is a driver of Iran’s foreign trade but the sector was the first to come under US-led sanctions. An imminent lifting of the sanctions is expected to put the country back […]

Never let a good crisis go to waste: DHS and TSA to implement ‘unspecified precautionary measures’ to protect flights from the Middle East

     As investigators search for the cause of a plane crash that killed 224 people over the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday and Russia suspends all flights to Egypt, U.S. officials said they are taking unspecified precautionary measures to enhance the security of flights from the Middle East. “While the facts and circumstances surrounding the tragic […]

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