IATA chief says jet fuel supply could take months to recover after Hormuz reopening https://t.co/0KqLSqjPPM pic.twitter.com/H0qhi64avY — Alma Angeles (@AlmaANET25) April 8, 2026
IATA Director General Willie Walsh warning that jet fuel supply restoration in the Middle East will require months even after Strait of Hormuz reopening, due to major refining capacity damage. The statement follows…
A JP Morgan Commodities Research table listing specific oil and gas assets hit across the Middle East, including pipelines, terminals, ports, depots, and fields in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Iraq, and Oman. The table details drone strikes, missile attacks, and fires causing capacity outages, with examples like partial shutdowns at Saudi East-West pipeline, full disruptions…
Project Agorá, launched in April 2024 by the BIS Innovation Hub, is its largest public-private collaboration, testing a multi-currency unified ledger for wholesale cross-border payments. It builds on the BIS's "unified ledger" concept, exploring how tokenization and programmability can modernize correspondent banking without replacing the two-tier monetary system (commercial banks and central banks).
This…
Private Credit will not trigger a systemic global banking crisis like 2008, but acts as an extreme amplifier of sector volatility, generating a "sawtooth recession" in corporate credit with a structural rotation towards AI-Native.
The analysis conducted by integrating the 7 quantitative layers (semantic NLP, macro DSGE, factor decomposition, Markov-switching regimes, quantum-classical portfolio optimization,…
The information, factually confirmed by multi-source convergence (including the Financial Times of April 8, 2026), establishes that Iran now demands payments in cryptocurrencies (BTC, stablecoins) and in Yuan for oil transit through the Strait of Hormuz, completely bypassing SWIFT.
This mechanism, controlled by the IRGC, sets a rate of $1 per barrel, creating an…
Direct investing, or direct deals, is the practice where investors like family offices or high-net-worth individuals commit capital directly into private companies or assets, bypassing traditional private equity (PE) funds where a General Partner (GP) manages the portfolio. This trend is accelerating, evidenced by family offices significantly shifting allocations away from funds toward direct deals,…
UBS a publié un commentaire sur les métaux précieux intitulé "From the Ground :Gold demand from China likely to persist", se basant sur des entretiens récents avec des acteurs du marché chinois. Le rapport de l'analyste Joni Teves souligne que la demande chinoise reste un soutien clé pour l'or, malgré une faiblesse des prix à…
A $20 premium puts #Saudi #oil above $130/barrel. More evidence of 2 oil markets - one for actual barrels of oil for refining into usable product. The other for paper barrels for trading & gov't propaganda, based on promises for future delivery. Same is true for #gold #silver. pic.twitter.com/2vNFGWP0bI — James Turk (@FGMR) April 6,…
The Brent oil market shows an extreme divergence between the paper price (futures contracts) at $109 and the physical price (spot) at $141, a $32 gap reflecting a strong "backwardation." Normally, future prices are higher than spot prices (contango) due to storage costs; this inversion signals an immediate scarcity of physical oil. The $141 price…
Thirty-five DeFi protocol hacks in early 2026 caused over $453 million in losses, according to several analysts. January (12 incidents, $103M), February (8, $24M), March (14, $41M), and April (one major event, $285M) make up this breakdown. Notable exploits cited include Step Finance (private key) and Drift Protocol on Solana (admin keys). Common attack vectors…
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