Новости за 20.12.2024

The PCE price index was expected to show a 2.5% annual inflation rate in November after rising 0.2% monthly.

There is a general mood that the future is brighter than the immediate past, bringing unique opportunities to chart a positive momentum.

A top U. S. government cybersecurity agency has released a set of smartphone safety protocols for top officials and politicians. You should follow them, too.

Republicans broke with Donald Trump. Now primary threats could be in the offing.

They were politicians, businesspeople, athletes, artists and entertainers. This year, we said goodbye to such beloved figures as James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Bill Walton, Louis Gossett Jr. and Teri Garr.

World Rugby Player of the Year Pieter-Steph du Toit is one of five Springboks nominated for SA Rugby's Men's Player of the Year.

World Rugby Player of the Year Pieter-Steph du Toit is one of five Springboks nominated for SA Rugby's Men's Player of the Year.

Lehigh Valley Phantoms (11-10-5) vs. Toronto Marlies (14-4-5) PPL Center, Allentown, PA Friday, December 20, 2024 (7:05 p.m.) – Game #27 TONIGHT – The Lehigh Valley Phantoms (11-10-5) play their final home games before the holiday break as they host the Toronto Marlies, AHL affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Toronto (14-4-5) has the fewest […]

The conservative constellation is ever expanding and contracting, a fact on display as the biggest MAGA stars prepare to descend on the Arizona desert at the invitation of Charlie Kirk, one of the youngest and increasingly most influential members of the Trump orbit.

Rhodes College confronts a troubling incident as vulgar messages, initially deemed hate speech, are revealed to be a student fabrication. Discover the details behind this startling revelation.

Save $250 on the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Android smartphone over at Amazon.

We sail an O’day 37 cc. Looking to install a mainsheet traveller. It would be an end boom set up, but we have the aft cabin companion way as an obstacle. All that I have read using risers all refer to a mid boom set up..any thoughts

The legendary musician candid on retirement and the physical toll of his decades in the spotlight

Space missions, rocket launches, and celestial events are coming our way in 2025.

Light crude oil futures are facing bearish sentiment, largely driven by concerns over global economic growth and oil demand. Weak consumer spending data from China, the world’s largest oil importer, has cast doubt on the resilience of its economic recovery. Despite signs of improvement in industrial production, the broader outlook for Chinese demand remains subdued, as Beijing struggles to implement effective stimulus measures. Energy transition policies in China are also expected to cap long-term petroleum consumption... Читать дальше...

Iran’s oil is increasingly finding its way into floating storage offshore Southeast Asia instead of at customers as a recent raft of U.S. sanctions on tankers shipping Iranian oil has made Chinese buyers more careful. The volumes of Iranian oil stored on tankers at sea, predominantly offshore Malaysia’s eastern coasts, have swelled to their highest levels since the end of July, per data from Kpler cited by Bloomberg. As of December 15, a total of 16.82 million barrels of Iranian oil were sitting... Читать дальше...

Turkey has mediated a deal between Ethiopia and Somalia to grant the former access to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, ending a year-long dispute that threatened to spark a regional conflict. But the new deal voids an earlier deal with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, which would have given Ethiopia a naval base in Somaliland in return for recognition of independence.  The Turkish deal, dubbed the “Ankara Declaration” would give Ethiopia alternative access to the Red Sea, without undermining... Читать дальше...

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Venezuela’s PDVSA and India’s Reliance Industries have resumed a cautious oil-for-naphtha swap arrangement paused under U.S. sanctions, signaling a recalibration of geopolitical oil strategies. With a U.S. license in hand since July, the swap delivered 1.9M barrels of Merey crude to India and 500,000 barrels of naphtha to Venezuela, reflecting mutual economic necessity as Venezuela leverages barter deals to sustain its oil sector while India cautiously tests the... Читать дальше...

Wary of Worsening Export Economics, Chinese Refiners Flushes Out Stocks - Chinese companies maximized their exports of oil products in November, ahead of an increase in government levies after Beijing reduced the country’s VAT rebate for product exports from 13% to 9%.    - The combined exports of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel accounted for 920,000 b/d last month, according to Chinese GAC statistics, a whopping 28% month-on-month increase as oil companies flushed out their stocks. - Slashing the... Читать дальше...

If cryptic crosswords aren’t challenging enough for you, try this jumbo one that only uses letters found in elemental symbols

Ring in 2025 without having to stake awake until midnight.

The Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat was first introduced as a one-year-only model way back for the 2021 model year, and Dodge briefly kept its word and discontinued it for 2022 following a short production run of about 3,000 units. Then-CEO Tim Kuniskis was even quoted saying, “you’ve only got one shot [to buy one].” When 2…

Tottenham Hotspur’s Ange Postecoglou continues to win admirers with his progressive brand of football, and none other than Liverpool boss Arne Slot has joined the... The post Arne Slot leaps to Ange Postecoglou’s defence – ‘I hope he wins a trophy’ appeared first on Spurs Web.

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To get Nosferatu’s nightmarish love triangle right, Robert Eggers looked to Wuthering Heights for inspiration.