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On 11 Feb 2026, Energy Secretary Chris Wright arrived in Caracas for a three-day inspection tour, inaugurating Washington’s hands-on $100 billion plan to revive Venezuela’s oil sector only five weeks after U.S. forces ousted Nicolás Maduro.
In less than 24 hours on 9-10 Feb 2026, Alphabet sold about $32 billion in dollar, sterling and Swiss-franc bonds—including a rare £1 billion 100-year tranche—to bankroll a planned $185 billion AI capex surge.
On 10 Feb 2026 Paramount amended its hostile $30/share all-cash tender for WBD by promising a 25-cent quarterly ‘ticking fee’ after 31 Dec 2026 and covering the $2.8 billion break-up fee owed to Netflix, while again extending the tender deadline.
On 6 Feb 2026, a payout typo at Bithumb credited 695 users with 620,000 BTC—about US$44 billion—prompting a 35-minute trade freeze and an immediate probe by South Korea’s Financial Services Commission.
On 9 Feb 2026 India’s biggest state and private refiners stopped booking March-April Russian crude cargoes days after President Trump revoked a 25% duty, signalling New Delhi’s intent to clinch a wider trade pact with Washington.
Sanae Takaichi’s 9 Feb 2026 lower-house sweep briefly drove USD/JPY to ¥157.72—a two-week low for the yen—before government intervention warnings yanked the pair back below ¥156.
Between Feb 5-8 2026, the Post cut about 300 jobs (≈30 % of staff) and, amid the backlash, publisher Will Lewis quit, leaving a 147-year-old paper suddenly leader-less and hollowed out.
After days of brinkmanship, Washington and Tehran confirmed a face-to-face meeting in Muscat at 10:00 on 6 Feb 2026—their first direct negotiation since the June 2025 Israel-Iran war—to discuss limits on Iran’s nuclear programme under the shadow of a U.S. strike threat.
On 7 Feb 2026, Damascus and Riyadh inked roughly $5.3 billion in binding contracts—including a $2 billion Elaf Fund for Aleppo’s airports and a $1 billion SilkLink fiber network—marking the first large, post-sanctions capital surge into post-Assad Syria.
On 9 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party captured a post-war record super-majority in the lower house, instantly driving the Nikkei above 57,000 while sending bond yields and the yen into whipsaw territory.
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