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Days after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro, President Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim government will hand over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S. under his direct control.
On 9 Jan 2026 the two FTSE-100 miners confirmed preliminary, all-share talks that could see Rio Tinto buy some or all of Glencore, giving Rio a 5 Feb deadline and immediately sending Glencore stock up nearly 9% while Rio fell about 3%.
Within 48 hours of Nicolás Maduro’s 4 Jan 2026 capture, Energy Secretary Chris Wright scheduled 5-7 Jan meetings with Chevron, ConocoPhillips and others in Miami to hash out a U.S.–subsidised plan to pour roughly $100 billion into restarting Venezuela’s shattered oil sector.
On 9 Jan 2026 the justices may issue an expedited decision on whether President Trump’s April 2025 10–50 % blanket import tariffs, enacted under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were an unconstitutional overreach of executive authority.
Brussels secured Italy’s backing on 5 Jan 2026 by dangling extra farm funding, giving the EU the qualified-majority votes it lacked ahead of a 9 Jan ambassadors’ ballot and a planned 12 Jan signing of the 780-million-person trade deal.
After receiving a European Commission pledge of early access to €45 billion in farm funds, Rome switched from blocking to backing the EU-Mercosur trade agreement ahead of a decisive Council vote this Friday.
On 7 Jan 2026, President Trump declared he is initiating an outright ban on large institutional investors purchasing additional single-family houses and urged Congress to codify the restriction.
Between 3-5 Jan 2026, Washington’s post-arrest “oil quarantine” froze Venezuelan tanker traffic, filled storage, and obliged state firm PDVSA to begin shutting wells across key joint ventures.
Within hours of a 3 Jan 2026 U.S. raid that captured Nicolás Maduro, President Trump declared that American oil giants must move back into Venezuela and finance a full rebuild of its crumbling petroleum sector while the U.S. keeps its oil embargo in place.
On 6 Jan 2026 Beijing abruptly prohibited all dual-use goods headed to Japanese military end-users, tightening export licensing with immediate effect and openly linking the move to Tokyo’s November pledge to defend Taiwan.
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