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LNG Deliveries to China Rebound in May

The world's largest LNG buyer stepped up purchases ahead of peak summer demand, reversing a months-long decline following disruptions to Middle East supplies.

I may have to die sooner than planned

Hello, I may be affected (!) by familial Alzheimer's disease. My father died relatively young, at 52. There is a 50/50 chance that it will be passed on. The test to see whether it was familial was never carried out. The disease is incurable and the chances of recovery are currently hopeless. The general tenor is that you shouldn't get tested because it doesn't help and doesn't change anything other than taking away all the joy in your life

Nikkei and Topix: Stock markets in Asia nervous - investors between AI hope and Middle East worries

After its record high, the Japanese stock index Nikkei is trading weaker. Statements from Nvidia boss Jensen Huang are causing price movements in technology stocks.

What are the pros of opening a managed investing account (Robinhood)?

I’m 20M heading into my 3rd year of college. I have no student debt, and won’t. I am starting a new job as an RA and will not be paying rent as of August. For sure after August I will be having a monthly income of $1000. I have an individual investing account, ROTH IRA, and am looking at using the Robinhood strategies feature. Please keep criticism at a minimum… hopefully. I am really just looking for some straight forward advice. submitted by /u/theshortirishman [link] [comments]

In Japan, ethylene shortage may cause bananas to ‘disappear’ from dining tables

Japan is slipping towards a banana shortage crisis, the latest disruption linked to the Middle East conflict. The reason: the country ships in the tropical fruit while it is still green, then ripens it in rooms filled with ethylene before bunches reach store shelves. Supplies of the naphtha-derived gas are running low in an economy that imports more than 90 per cent of its crude oil. Japan bought about 1 million tonnes of bananas last year, making the fruit one of the country’s most important...

Pakistan plans strategic oil reserve as Iran crisis bites

Indonesian oil palm farmers bemoan new export rules after crop prices dive

United Nations: Baerbock demands: not to leave the field to UN destroyers

For the President of the UN General Assembly, there is no alternative to the United Nations. She advocates tough reforms - and clear signals in international law.

+++ US tariff policy +++: Trump reduces tariffs on certain metal products

EU agrees on full implementation of customs deal with USA +++ US appeals court reinstates Trump's global tariffs for the time being +++ The news blog.

Oil just surged after CENTCOM struck Iran, is anyone actually positioned for this or did everyone get washed out on the dip?

Vance's comments on May 28 fueled optimism around a potential US-Iran deal, helping push oil lower as traders priced in de-escalation and a possible reopening of Hormuz. But renewed military action and uncertainty around negotiations have since reversed part of that move. Brent is back around $95 and WTI near $92 after a sharp rebound from last week's lows. The market keeps swinging between "deal incoming" and "conflict escalating" narratives, and that uncertainty is now driving oil more than fu

Auto industry: “It’s like a Trojan horse”: How China’s car manufacturers are taking advantage of utilization problems faced by manufacturers like VW

As the EU imposes tariffs, more and more Western car manufacturers are opening their factories to Chinese manufacturers. Experts warn: Europe's auto industry could make its strongest rival big.

Why oil-hungry Asia ignores risks linked to Russia’s ‘dark fleet’

Asia’s fuel needs may take priority over the strategic risks of relying on oil from heavily sanctioned Russia, according to experts. Currently, there is little political appetite to treat the surge of Moscow’s crude flowing eastward through a “dark fleet” of tankers as a potential security issue. The US-Israeli war on Iran has caused the price of Brent crude – the benchmark measure – to spike to above US$100 since March, although talks with Washington have seen the price soften in recent days to

China boy with 97% burns dreams of becoming top badminton player, practises daily despite pain

A boy in eastern China who survived catastrophic burns is battling daily pain on the badminton court, determined to become a champion like his idol Lin Dan. Xuanxuan, 12, from Jinan in Shandong province, was asleep with his family when a fire tore through his parents’ small noodle shop six years ago, Qilu Evening News reported. He suffered the worst injuries, with burns covering 97 per cent of his body, while his parents and younger sister were also injured. His mother told the mainland media...

The Pentagon Is Too Fixated on China

It’s unclear where the instinct to focus on China at the expense of the rest of the world comes from. Perhaps it’s a nostalgia for the Cold War, when every global conflict, crisis, and hot spot could be understood through the prism of the Soviet–American competition (even though that interpretation was often misleading and led to catastrophic misunderstandings and policy mistakes). Perhaps it’s a reaction to a sense of American power weakening—in which case it’s a prescription that will only acc

How many people do you think actually made generational wealth from this run?

I'm Korean and it seems like all everyone is talking about is the market. Recently I saw an interesting study - that majority of people who actually invested in this market only invested $1000 or less, and people who invested $100,000 or more is only 7% of total investors. People who invested $200,000 or more is even less than that. It means even if you were somehow able to ride every single rally, most people probably made around $1000~$10,000 in profit. It's not bad, but that's hardly life cha

Persian Gulf Oil Tanker Traffic May Never Fully Recover

Oil and gas traffic via the Strait of Hormuz may never go back to pre-war levels if Iran cements its hold over the chokepoint. The warnings come from several unrelated sources as the war continues to drag on, with some recovery in traffic but nowhere near pre-February 28 levels. Meanwhile, Big Oil is warning that the looming supply shortage is about to hit global markets in weeks. “No matter what happens, the Iranians will control the Strait of Hormuz for the foreseeable future,” Amos Hochstein,

(Not) take out accident insurance after the death of your parents

About the insurance: Taken out by parents (civil servants) a long time ago with Debeka's parents died. I would have to decide immediately to take over the insurance under the conditions. Conditions: Unfortunately, only a rough outline is available at the moment, no details such as whether borderline cases are covered, which are not available in all cases. This means that no precise comparison with other offers is possible. Disability sum: 400k Total disability: 1 million Death sum: 40k Daily hospital allowance: 40 Monthly contribution: Because he is not a civil servant like his parents

Pentagon chief sounds ‘alarm’ over China’s buildup, urges allies to boost defense spending

Hegseth urged Asian allies to ramp up military spending to counter China’s growing power.

5 technology tips for the football festival: World Cup at home: How to avoid delays and image problems

Celebration next door before you've even seen the goal: a classic spoiler that you can avoid at the World Cup - just like a puny or lousy picture. Also: How to record games.

Guyana Emerges as an Oil Winner in the Iran War

In just seven years, Guyana has become one of the fastest-growing oil exporters and global economies and an oil-producing powerhouse with nearly 1 million barrels per day of production capacity. And the war in Iran is only turning up the heat even more. Since ExxonMobil launched production from the offshore Stabroek block in 2019, Guyana’s economy has quadrupled. Oil revenues and royalties have boosted income for the state coffers and gross domestic product (GDP) linked with oil-related activiti

Tech: Alphabet wants to raise $80 billion for AI expansion on the capital market

The Google Group is financing its investments in AI through an extensive capital measure. In addition to stock issues, Berkshire Hathaway is investing billions.

Many big oil tankers remain stuck in the Strait of Hormuz — and may not return once they escape

There’s doubt massive tankers, once the backbone of global crude flows, will be returning in quite the same numbers to the Middle East.

Why do “reputable” websites allow blatant financial fraud?

I hope I can post this here. Brief background: Recently my father came to me and said he had found a great offer for fixed-term deposits online and had registered somewhere with his email and telephone number. An employee promptly contacted him and sent him an alleged fixed-term deposit offer from Santander by email. I then took a closer look at it and with a little research I came across a warning from BaFin about this intermediary. Of course I have you

Berkshire invests extra $10 billion in Alphabet, deepening bet on AI

There's Enough Hydrogen Underground to Power Earth for 170,000 Years

Green hydrogen has been hyped as a silver bullet solution to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors like steelmaking and industrial shipping for decades now. It can be combusted at high heats like fossil fuels, but leaves behind nothing but water vapor when it burns, rather than world-heating greenhouse gas emissions. So why does green hydrogen still represent less than one percent of all hydrogen production in the United States? The simple answer is that producing green hydrogen is expensive, and us

The return on the statutory pension is a bet on real wage growth

Complaining about pensions is a daily occurrence here, but the Council of Experts aka Economists and the Institute for Macroeconomics and Economic Research postulate slightly positive real returns (in some cases even ~2% real for those born after 1990) for the DRV. At first I think that's subjective nonsense, which is why I tried to find out what my IRR, i.e. internal rate of return, might look like for the statutory pension. Assumptions: - 33 years old now, started paying into the DRV at 26 - no

Frustrated with Robinhood

HI, I am a fairly active options trader and I happened to sell Covered Calls a year ago on some stocks that ran up A LOT in the recent semiconductor bull run. Robinhood has now effectively put me on a Covered Call Hold preventing me from selling ANY covered calls on ANY ticker. This is so frustrating- I have been on calls with their account supervisors for over 4-5 hours and no one can tell me how much I need to unwind positions/transfer in. I tried to transfer my unencumbered shares out to my S

Middle East conflict: Netanyahu continues to threaten attacks on Hezbollah targets

First, US President Trump announced a halt to mutual attacks by Israel and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. Just a few hours later, Netanyahu threatened to attack Beirut again.

Workday up 40% in seven days

Following Michael Burry’s recent analysis on his Cassandra Unchained Substack, market momentum seems to be swinging back toward select enterprise tech companies. Burry, famous for his contrarian market calls, published a multi-part breakdown of 50 software and payment stocks to evaluate where the industry stands. While he warned about a speculative tech bubble and overvaluations across the broader Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) landscape, his research made an important distinction: some companies

Crude Surges on Iran Tensions

Brent and WTI rallied after reports Iran may halt US negotiations.