WTI, Brent rise as U.S. production plateaus

Pipeline and crude storage tanks in Cushing Oklahoma. Justin Solomon | CNBC Crude oil futures rose for a third day as U.S. production this year is expected to grow less than expected, easing worries that the market is oversupplied. The West Texas Intermediate contract for March added 59 cents, or 0.80%, to $73.90 a barrel, … Read more

Traders monitor Gaza talks, Iran tensions

A Palestinian petrol station attendant stands at empty pumps at a closed petrol station in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 5, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Said Khatib | AFP | Getty Images Oil prices rose Tuesday as investors weighed efforts to negotiate a truce … Read more

China’s Taiwan approach ‘has been counterproductive’

Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, speaks with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that China’s growing aggression toward Taiwan has undermined the country’s own interests. “I think the approach that they’ve shown in recent … Read more

Is a war with Hezbollah next? Growing fears over Israel-Hamas war

Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants chant slogans as they walk in the beginning of the funeral procession of the party top commander Wissam tawil in the southern Lebanese village of Khirbit Selem. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Is a wider Middle East war — expanding beyond the borders of Gaza and Israel — inevitable? … Read more

Blinken to meet with leaders of Saudi Arabia, UAE

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards an aircraft during his departure from Washington to travel to the Middle East, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., January 4, 2024.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to meet … Read more

Blinken Meets Arab Leaders To Keep Gaza Violence Contained

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — On another urgent diplomatic mission to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Sunday with Arab partners to press for their help in tamping down resurgent fears that Israel’s three-month war against Hamas in Gaza could spread. In discussions with Qatar’s emir and Jordan’s king, Blinken spoke of … Read more

Blinken meets Jordan officials on push to keep Gaza war from spreading – National

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Sunday with Jordan’s king and foreign minister and visited a World Food Program warehouse in Amman as he pressed ahead with an urgent Middle East diplomatic mission to prevent Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza from spreading. On his fourth visit to the region in three months, Blinken stressed … Read more

Despite transatlantic ‘love fest’, EU charts third way in ties with US and China

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first videoconference with European Union foreign ministers last month was so good humoured that some diplomats in Europe described it as a “love fest”. But two senior envoys who attended said there was no direct response from the ministers gathered in Brussels when Blinken said: “We must push back … Read more

UN vote on Gaza aid further delayed as US works ‘intensely’

A United Nations Security Council vote on a bid to boost aid to the Gaza Strip and ask the U.N. to monitor humanitarian aid deliveries in the Palestinian enclave has again been delayed at the request of the U.S., diplomats said on Wednesday. “Negotiations are ongoing and need more time. A rushed vote does not … Read more