Source: MarketWatch
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Tuesday 12 December 2023 15:28:54
Oil Prices Lower Ahead of U.S. Inflation Report
Price action
- West Texas Intermediate crude for January CL00, -1.08% CLF24, -1.08% delivery shed 38 cents, or 0.5%, to $70.94 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
- February Brent crude the global benchmark, shed 45 cents, or nearly 0.6%, at $75.58 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe.
- January gasoline RBF24, -0.71% shed 0.1% to $2.04 a gallon, while January heating oil HOF24, -1.81% fell 0.8% to $2.58 a gallon on Nymex.
- Natural gas for January delivery rose 0.3% to $2.43 per million British thermal units.
Market drivers
The U.S. CPI Index for November is due out at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time Tuesday. The data could have an impact on oil prices, which settled higher on Monday following a seven-week losing streak that was the worst for U.S.-traded crude since 2018.
Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expect the headline gauge of growth in consumer prices had been flat last month, while core prices are expected to have increased by 0.3%, slightly faster than the 0.2% rate from October.