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Pezeshkian Sets Iran's Third-Tier Gasoline Price at 10,000 Tomans: Mapping the Chain Reaction on Inflation, the Dollar, Gold and the Bourse (Friday, August 28, 2026)

Who Sets OPEC+ Oil Quotas? The Monitoring Committee and Russia's Role

Aref: Top Income Decile Gets 23 Times More Gasoline Subsidy Than Bottom Decile; Government Denies 80,000 Toman Price Rumor (Sunday, August 23, 2026)

How China's Yuan and Iran's Oil Are Tied Together

Persian Gulf-to-Asia Supertanker Rates Hit $510,000 a Day, Highest Since Late June, Right as the Iran-US 60-Day Ceasefire Lapses (Tuesday, August 18, 2026)

UAE Oil Output Hit a Record 4.1 Million Barrels a Day in June; ADNOC Has Sold Over 90 Million Barrels by Routing Around Hormuz (Wednesday, August 12, 2026)

Brent, WTI, and the OPEC Basket: What They Are and Why Their Prices Differ

Brent Crude Jumps Nearly 5% in a Day to Top $87 as Iran Ties Hormuz Reopening to Six Conditions and Houthis Claim Drone Strike on Saudi Jazan Refinery (Monday, August 10, 2026)

US Economy Shed 23,000 Jobs in July; Gold Jumps 2.7% to $4,355, Silver Up 4.25% (Friday, August 7, 2026)

What Is the Iran Mercantile Exchange: From Physical Auctions to Deposit Certificates and Standard Parallel Forward Sales

Futures and Options: How Leverage, Margin and the Margin Call Actually Work

Six Saudi Tankers Take the 56 Day Route Around Africa; Cost Per Voyage Rises by 2 to 2.5 Million Dollars (Monday, 3 August 2026)

$160 Million a Day: ExxonMobil and Chevron Booked a Combined $26.6 Billion Quarter; Anatomy of a Geopolitical Risk Premium (Saturday, August 1, 2026)

2,582 MW of New Thermal Power Capacity Came Online for 1.4 Billion Euros; Parliament Estimates Illegal Crypto Miners Draw About 2,000 MW (Saturday, 1 August 2026)

Iran's 1404 transit reached 20.516 million tonnes: the asset that never runs out but can be blocked (Friday, 31 July 2026)

150 million tons crossed Iran's borders, but the value of each exported ton fell to $343 (Thursday, 30 July 2026)

Iran grows 85 to 90 percent of the world's saffron but sells it for $862 a kilo: anatomy of the red gold paradox (Sunday, 26 July 2026)

Did Gasoline Just Become Three-Tier? What Actually Changed on 1 Mordad 1405 (23 July 2026) and What Is Just a Rumor

China's Purchases of Iranian Crude More Than Halved in June Despite Sanctions Waiver; Over 20 Million Barrels Now Stranded at Sea (Tuesday, July 7, 2026)

Russia's Urals Crude Sinks to $41.66 a Barrel, Below Pre-War Levels, Deepening the Kremlin's Budget Squeeze (Monday, July 6, 2026)

OPEC+ Raises August Output by 188,000 Barrels a Day as Persian Gulf Exports Through the Strait of Hormuz Top 10 Million Barrels (Sunday, July 5, 2026)

Saudi Oil Exports Through Strait of Hormuz Hit 6.3 Million Barrels a Day; OPEC+ Nears August Output Hike (Saturday, July 4, 2026)