bne IntelliNews

Sorry, but you have used all your free articles fro this month for bne IntelliNews. Subscribe to continue reading for only $119 per year.

Your subscription includes:

Full access to the bne daily content on the bne website
Digital subscription to our monthly bne IntelliNews flagship magazine, delivered to your inbox
Digital subscription to the "editor's picks" emails three times a week highlighting our best articles
Full access to 10 years of bne archived articles

bne IntelliNews
$119 per year

BUY NOW

For the meantime we are also offering a free subscription to bne's digital weekly newspaper to subscribers to the online package.

Click here for more subscription options, including to the print version of our flagship monthly magazine:

More subscription options

Take a trial to our premium daily news service aimed at professional investors that covers the 30 countries of emerging Europe:

Get IntelliNews PRO

For any other enquiries about our products or corporate discounts please contact us at [email protected]

If you no longer wish to receive our emails, unsubscribe here.

Latest Updates

News

A US intelligence assessment has concluded that even a major American-led military assault on Iran would be unlikely to overthrow the country’s leadership.

Chile’s president-elect José Antonio Kast will take office on March 11 facing a complex geopolitical dilemma: how to maintain the country’s deep commercial links with China while responding to growing strategic pressure from the United States.

Argentina is in talks with several allied governments about bilateral loans as Buenos Aires seeks cheaper alternatives to international bond markets ahead of a $4.2bn payment to private creditors due in July.

Sex webcam kingpin was granted presidential pardon. “My first thought was I'd been tricked,” says president Japarov. Claims he freed infamous inmate after mother said his family was mired in poverty.

Corridor narrows further when drone attack on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan airport forced partial airspace closure.

Tech

Fagura describes its model as a modern version of the traditional “3Fs” funding approach – Friends, Family and Fools.

First urban 5G coverage is planned by spring 2027, with nationwide coverage scheduled for completion by 2033.

A Chinese satellite picture of US fighter jets standing on the runway Prince Sultan Air Base in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has shaken the military analyst community.

Private equity investor Advent International to work with tbi management to strengthen its position as a leading technology-driven bank in Southeast Europe.

Regional machinery and defence conglomerate Czechoslovak Group announced its entrance into the Hungarian defence industry by acquiring a 49% share in the local 4iG Space & Defence Technologies.

Opinion

Israel’s latest strikes on Beirut risk repeating the logic of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon — a moment when a single attack gave Israeli leaders the opportunity to escalate a war they were already prepared to fight.

Armenia conducts about 14.8% of its total trade turnover with Iran, the Persian Gulf countries and Israel combined, making it the most exposed among the three economies.

One big take out for me is that Iran’s drone programme is actually proving much more effective than its nuclear programme. Relatively cheaply with $20,000 drones Iran has proven able to rock the global economy. Why bother with nukes?

Iran’s plan, if it has one, seems to revolve around creating as much chaos and confusion as possible.

The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the outbreak of conflict involving Iran is unlikely to persist long enough to trigger a sustained surge in global oil prices, according to Fitch Ratings.

Data

The economy weakened significantly toward the end of the year, after fiscal consolidation measures were enforced.

Capital Economics, meanwhile, says a hike cannot be ruled out.

Global events, including higher energy prices stemming from the Middle East crisis, are likely to exert upward pressure on inflation. However, the Work Report offered limited measures to stimulate domestic demand.

The world has just been struck by one of the worst energy crises since the Russian invasion of Ukraine four years ago. The outbreak of war in the Middle East is going to be more significant. Yet the price of oil has reacted modestly so far.

However, central bank governor warns it is difficult to assess consequences of ongoing war in Middle East.

Features

Brent was trading at over $108 per barrel as of 06:30 GMT today, up from the early $70s prior to the US and Israel launch of strikes against Iran on February 28.

The Saudi defence ministry has confirmed the interception of four drones and a ballistic missile, underscoring the persistent security risks to the Kingdom’s critical energy and military assets.

Dubai has only ten days of fresh food left after the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has cut the United Arab Emirates (UAE) off from all its imports, including food. In Abu Dhabi real estate prices are also collapsing.

Promoting connectivity, cooperation and Middle Corridor.

As the war in Iran escalates, Tehran's shadow banking sector is coming into focus as a possible weakness that could bring the regime down and quickly halt the conflict.

Blogs

Life in wartime Tehran has shifted to a neighbourhood-centric pattern as residents stay put, unable to afford evacuation. Field reporting reveals how economic pressure, not defiance, keeps millions in a city under sustained air strikes.

The Kremlin is looking on with concern as Operation Epic Fury unfolds in the Middle East. The US has gone in with its standard “shock and awe” strategy of attacking with overwhelming force. But Putin probably sees this as another Libya.

Albanian PM Edi Rama has emerged as one of Europe’s most outspoken backers of the US-Israeli military action against "murderers in Tehran".

Asian economies, heavily dependent on energy imports, stand to gain the most as Iran holds the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves in the Khuzestan region, and is the second-largest in terms of natural gas deposits.

The initial jolt of adrenaline gave way to fear, and fear to a grim, quiet resignation.

bneGREEN

A rare earth deposit discovered in Norway is about 80% larger than initially estimated, potentially making it one of the world’s biggest sources of the critical minerals used in electric vehicles, wind turbines and defence systems.

What started as development banks pushing emerging markets to adopt green energy because of the Climate Crisis has been transformed after the cost of producing green energy plummeted. But 8-hour batteries are key to completing the evolution.

The government aims to nearly the double share of nuclear power in electricity generation in the next 15 years.

The rapid deployment of renewable energy options around the country and the popularity of electric vehicles in recent year has already begun to restrain the growth of China’s climate footprint.

Upstream-downstream divide difficult to bridge.

Follow Us On

Most Read

Podcasts

Nato General Secretary Mark Rutte warned that the West needs to prepare of the possibility that Chinese President Xi Jinping will ....

Reports

Cookies on the bne IntelliNews website