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Europe will miss contracted Saudi oil deliveries, says Bloomberg's statecraft lead
4 takeaways: The pipeline attack that closed a Hormuz bypass, why Europe's shortfall pulls on US crude, diesel at a record high, and what the Greenland…
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Majid Al Futtaim CEO on its growth pipeline: "north of 100 perhaps 150 billion dirhams"
12 takeaways: How footfall held up through six months of war, why he says the biggest threat is the company's own record run, and what $270M a year of…
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US Energy Secretary: the Saudi pipeline outage will be measured in days
4 takeaways: Where the barrels go while it is down, why refining is now the tighter constraint than crude, and his answer to Gavin Newsom's post about…
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Scott Modell: Iran and its proxies can hit just about anything they want at will
6 calls: How long the Saudi East-West pipeline stays shut, why 52 days of US bombing left the Houthis standing, and what he says Trump now believes…
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Vali Nasr: America ran out of ammunition fighting Iran, a secondary military power
10 arguments: why he says Iran is the only regional winner, how Gulf states are replacing US protection with Pakistan, Turkey and India, and what…
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Henry Tricks: the Saudi fund's new strategy names sports 7 times, 6 of them e-sports
8 lessons: why fans rather than players decide whether a league survives, what killed Michael Johnson's athletics league, and the 50-year lag behind…
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Jack Keane: he expects a strike far bigger than Kharg Island, across Iran's energy
7 takeaways: Why the Strait of Hormuz stopped working as Iranian leverage, what Admiral Cooper found when he surveyed Gulf oil defenses, and the bet…
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