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US munitions depleted by Iran war will take years to restore, analysis finds

Replenishing stockpiles of critical weapons systems could take until 2030 or 2031, creating a "window of vulnerability," a new analysis found.

Senior Ukrainian commander sees imminent ‘turning point’ in war

Ukraine has a six-month window in which to seize the battlefield initiative from Russia and strengthen its hand for peace talks, a senior commander said.

Strategists Predict Week on Week USA Crude Stock Drop

Macquarie strategists revealed that they are forecasting that U.S. crude inventories will be down for the week ending May 22.

Hafnia Posts Higher Q1 Profit

'Looking ahead, the outlook remains highly uncertain and depends largely on the duration of the disruption to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the time required for oil production and global refinery operations to recover'.

Germany eyes heat pumps as Iran war drives energy costs up

The war in the Middle East is threatening fossil fuel supplies and causing energy prices to rise in Germany. Could that drive a surge in demand for heat pumps?

Italo in Germany: Deutsche Bahn needs true competitors

The private Italian train operator Italo wants to run on German tracks, but the DB declares the routes to be occupied. The motto should apply: dare to have more competition.

Germany warns on trade imbalance as economy minister visits China

Katherina Reiche arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a three-day trip, the latest senior German official to head to Berlin's top trading partner

Japan's Chiyoda to resume construction on Qatari LNG plant

America’s Water Crisis Can No Longer Be Ignored

Policymakers, politicians, and the media have been talking about the need for better water policy in the desert southwest of the United States for decades. As the Colorado River, a major source of water for much of that area, continues to shrink, policymakers are having a hard time keeping up with nature. A new 10-year plan contemplates cutting water supplies for Arizona, Nevada, and California by up to 40 percent, depending on availability. Not surprisingly, these states don't like the plan tha

Neue Konzernstrategie: Wenig Glanz für Stellantis

Der neue Konzernchef des zweitgrößten europäischen Autokonzerns, Antonio Filosa, muss einen Neustart versuchen, weil der Vorgänger Carlos Tavares viele Fehler machte. Damit wird er vorerst nicht zum Börsenliebling.

Iran’s president orders reopening of international internet access, state media reports

⁠Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access, Iranian state media reported on Monday, citing an official after a ‌near-90-day blackout in the wake of the war against US and Israel. The report cited the head of public relations at Iran’s Communications Ministry. The mechanism for how and when Iran would reconnect to ⁠the global web following the decision was unknown. “The decree aimed at restoring internet access to its pre-January state was...

The Infrastructure Gap Threatening Britain's EV Transition

Motorway services will be central to the EV transition, but urgent action is needed to unlock grid capacity, writes Tim Gittins The UK has now passed a significant milestone with more than 2m electric vehicles on the road. It is a powerful signal of the pace at which transport is changing, and of the scale of the challenge now facing policymakers and industry alike in ensuring the infrastructure exists to support that transition at pace in practice, not just in principle. Since the opening of Wa

Future Tech Still Needs Old-School Metals. How Are People Thinking About Copper Exposure?

The more I look at AI infrastructure, grid upgrades, defense spending and electrification, the harder it is to ignore the metals side of the trade. Data centers need power cables, transformers, switchgear, busbars, substations, cooling systems and grid connections. Defense systems, robotics, EVs and renewables add more demand on top. Copper is the obvious volume metal in that stack, while silver, rare earths, gallium and germanium show up in more specialized parts of the supply chain. The part I

Europe’s Gas Prices Drop 5% On Renewed U.S.-Iran Talks Optimism

European natural gas prices fell more than 5% to around €46.3 per megawatt hour, their lowest level in two weeks, amid optimism that the United States and Iran could soon reach a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz following U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that a deal was nearing finalization after extensive calls with Middle Eastern leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hours later, Trump shifted his tone on the social media site, revealing that he had instructed U.S. r

Iran's president orders reopening of international internet access, state media reports - Reuters

Iran's president orders reopening of international internet access, state media reports Reuters

Buch Empfehlung - Staatsschulden

Hallo zusammen, ich würde mich gerne etwas in das Konzept Staatsschulden einlesen - habt ihr da konkrete Buchempfehlungen? Nach einer ersten Recherche hab ich vor allem folgende Titel gefunden: - How Countries go broke, Ray Dalio - Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years (Das verfehlt das Thema etwas denke ich, da es generell um das Konzept Schulden geht) - What We Owe, Carlo Cottarelli Kontext: ich bin recht Finanz- und Ökonomie-interessiert, habe Wirtschaftsstatistik studiert und be

Data Centers Are Outgrowing Europe’s Clean Power Deals

European data center power purchase agreement (PPA) volumes fell from 4.2 gigawatts (GW) in 2024 to 2.6 GW in 2025, even as capacity buildout accelerated sharply. The drop reflects offshore wind delays and increased challenges in agreeing on PPA price points due to falling capture rates and rising frequency of negative wholesale power price hours, particularly for solar PV. In addition, the race to secure power has led some major hyperscalers to reassess their clean energy ambitions, moderating

Kazakhstan Won’t Enforce $1.4B Gazprom Asset Seizure

Kazakhstan will not enforce a special court's decision allowing Ukraine's Naftogaz to collect a $1.4 billion international arbitration award from Russia's Gazprom, Justice Minister Erlan Sarsembayev has declared just days after Kazakhstan’s AIFC court upheld the award. The legal battle stemmed from a 2019 contract for Russian natural gas transit through Ukraine. Following Russia's 2022 invasion, Naftogaz declared force majeure at a major distribution station, prompting Gazprom to stop fully payi

Kazakhstan's First Nuclear Plant Faces More Delays

Beset with financing difficulties, Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear energy entity, is begging for more time to start building Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Balkhash. The site was selected after extensive study by Kazakh authorities. But at a recent meeting in Moscow, Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev told the head of Kazakhstan’s Atomic Energy Agency, Almassadam Satkaliyev, that the Russian entity will need “at least a year of observation of the site in order to form all the

Geht es noch jemandem so, dass Konsum irgendwann einfach seinen Reiz verliert?

Ich habe das Gefühl, dass die meisten Dinge, die man kaufen kann, am Ende hauptsächlich Platz wegnehmen und nur kurz glücklich machen. Reisen, Erlebnisse oder gutes Essen finde ich noch am sinnvollsten, weil davon wenigstens Erinnerungen bleiben. Aber selbst da gewöhnt man sich irgendwann dran. Viele größere Anschaffungen macht man außerdem nur einmal: gute Möbel, Technik, Küche, Auto usw. Wenn man halbwegs vernünftig kauft, hält vieles dann ewig. Dadurch frage ich mich gerade besonders bei Gutv

Iraq’s Oil Collapse Sparks Race for New Export Routes

April was indeed the cruellest month for decades for Iraq’s crude oil production, with an average of 1.389 million barrels per day (bpd) over the period. This compares to a monthly average of 3.47 million bpd from January 2002 to the end of March this year, and an average of over 4.1 million bpd in the three months leading up to the onset of the U.S./Israel-Iran War on 28 February. The last time oil production fell to the current level in the country was in the early 2000s, during and immediatel

Strait of Hormuz Crisis Triggers Global Fertilizer Supply Shock

The closed Strait of Hormuz has created a major fertilizer shock and threatens food security in developing nations as sulfur and phosphate exporters from the Middle East struggle to ship supply to the global markets. Since the Iran war began, supply from the Middle East has crashed, forcing fertilizer producers to reduce output and leading to major price spikes in these markets. SABIC and Ma'aden, two Saudi chemicals giants, have tried to re-route part of their shipments from the ports on the Re

Greentech: „Indirekt hilft Trump China“ – Wie das Land vom Iran-Krieg profitiert

Die Energiekrise treibt weltweit die Nachfrage nach Solaranlagen, Batteriespeichern und Elektroautos an – und macht China zum Gewinner der globalen Suche nach Alternativen zu Öl und Gas.

Vucic and Xi agree to strengthen ‘ironclad friendship’ between Serbia and China

China and Serbia agreed to deepen security and economic cooperation, with the leaders of the two nations hailing the “ironclad friendship” and strategic bonds between their countries during Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s first state visit to Beijing. In a comprehensive joint statement issued on Monday, the two sides said they would deepen cooperation in counterterrorism, preventing colour revolutions and the tightening of security for major events and Belt and Road Initiative...

The Iraq Sanctions Strike That Signals Washington’s New Middle East Playbook

Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Oil, Ali Maarij Al-Bahadly, along with many other individuals and businesses, was last week included by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in sanctions targeting the exploitation of Iraq’s oil sector to benefit Iran and Iran-aligned militias. These moves by OFAC are part of a ramping up of pressure on Iraqi entities that continue to deal with Iran, effectively bankrolling its current regime and the activities of its military, politica

Hauskauf - welche Möglichkeiten gibt es?

Hallo zusammen, Meine Frau und ich (36f u 38m) haben kürzlich ein Haus gefunden welches wir kaufen wollen. Termin bei interhyp und ing sind schon gemacht. Wir machen uns ein wenig Gedanken wegen der Finanzierung. In meinem Gedankenprozess würde ich sagen man bezieht gemeinsam eine Hypothek aufs Haus und fertig ist. Jedoch haben wir kein großes Eigenkapital ( knapp 20k) und mussten neben dem Hauskauf auch die Nebenkosten abdecken. Jetzt habe ich letztens noch gelesen, dass man auch ein Eigenkapit

Crude oil falls below $100 as tanker traffic through Hormuz picks up, raising hopes of US-Iran deal

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Ich bin ein verzweifelter Bär und nicht glücklich

Moin Leute, es ist wieder Zeit für so einen Beitrag. Die FOMO kickt gerade richtig und muss hier mal stellvertretend für alle Bären eine offene Diskussion anstoßen. Ich sitze noch auf viel Cash, was ich investieren will. Natürlich nur in ETFs, bin ja auch auf diesem Sub unterwegs😉. Ich weiß auch, dass time in the market besser ist als timing the market….ABER gerade in der aktuellen Zeit kann ich mich selbst nicht von dieser Rationalität überzeugen. Es kann absolut nicht sein, dass der Markt wei

North America Adds 21 Rigs Week on Week

North America added 21 rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes' latest North America rotary rig count.

China's Solar Additions Drop 79% in April as Domestic Market Slumps

China installed much less solar power capacity in April from a year earlier as the domestic solar market continues to adjust to a change in policy following record-high installations and a major glut in recent years. Chinese developers added just 9.52 gigawatts (GW) of new solar power capacity last month, per official data from China's National Energy Administration cited by Bloomberg. The new capacity compares to the massive 45 GW solar expansion in April 2025, when companies rushed to install