David Stringer

Managing Editor @Climate & ESG, Asia for @business.

[Bloomberg @business]

Bloomberg's @lizzzburden interrupts UK minister Peter Kyle to reveal that his colleague Defense Secretary John Healey has just quit the government https://t.co/IaM1l31W4E

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

NEW ODD LOTS:

It's the world's biggest computer chip!

$CBRS went public this week, riding the huge AI boom.

So @tracyalloway and I talk to CEO @andrewdfeldman about why he believes his dinner-plate sized chip is the secret to blazing fast inference https://t.co/eguDDTLCwJ

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Exclusive with @EllenAMilligan

The foreign office has sent redundancy letters to the Iran crisis team that is leading the UK’s response to the war

Around half of the officials in the unit are expected to take up the offer, which comes as part of severe FCDO job cuts

The crisis team works around the clock in a windowless bunker to support British nationals and work on policy and scenario planning

Officials find out in the coming days if their jobs are being kept or not

The redundancies in the Iran team are happening just as Trump mulls new strikes on Tehran and the crisis threatens to escalate

https://t.co/Sso54AhWrZ

[Cecilia D'Anastasio @cecianasta]

New: Manosphere influencer Clavicular is everywhere, and that’s not an accident. A paid marketing campaign is spreading video clips of his controversial antics across social media. https://t.co/OcCDvGVASn

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

We have forgotten how bad 2022 crisis was.

Commodity: price today (peak in 2022)

Brent: $99 ($139)
EU steel: $710 ($1,435)
EU wheat: €200 (€438)
US corn: $4.5 ($8.2)
EU gas TTF: €51 (€339)
Henry Hub gas: $2.9 ($9.7)
German power: €95 (€984)
Urea: $660 ($910)

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

CHART OF THE DAY: Without minimizing Qatar's announcement that it's shutting down LNG production (which triggered a 45% price jump), here's a bit of context about international gas prices. Using European benchmark TTF as a proxy, here's the price chart of the last few years.

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

European gas prices surge another 10% as Qatar's LNG export plant is still offline 📈📈

Prices up >60% over the last two days

[Dake Kang @dakekang]

Albee Zhang writes about China's young, low-cost retirees, quitting careers before thirty and taking advantage of China's slowing economy to chill out in semi-abandoned, shockingly cheap housing complexes: https://t.co/kEBux5cLsO

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

Europe faces its biggest energy crisis since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 🚨

Qatar shut production at the world's biggest LNG export plant after an Iranian drone attack. That facility produces ~20% of global LNG supply

Europe will need to compete with Asia for LNG

[Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold]

A couple of years ago, following an 8 year public records battle w/ODNI, I was able to get a document declassified: Kremlin Ordered Assassinations Abroad Will Probably Persist

As far as I could tell, nothing like this had ever been publicly released
https://t.co/LtVfncPOK8

[Adrian Wooldridge @adwooldridge]

It is not enough to cast the great spin doctor out of political life. Unless we want to see a disgusted public revolt against the political establishment, we need to cast his spirit out of political life,
https://t.co/WGPTok8Uxx

[Ravi Somaiya @ravisomaiya]

Thank you to the FT, and it's amazing editors, and to everyone who has read and shared for an overwhelming response. You can read the full, uncut version of the story here: https://t.co/zxiwH5j6FS

[Tom Randall @tsrandall]

Battery prices at $108/kWh is wild to see. That's the global average for all-in pack prices. In China, where EV and solar+battery adoption continues to rip, pack prices are down to $84/kWh. Latest figures from BNEF:

https://t.co/3FPLG1iEuB

[Ziad Daoud @ZiadMDaoud]

"It’s uncommon for a city to have even one sovereign wealth fund; the UAE’s capital has three"

This piece is a nice overview of how and where Abu Dhabi invests its wealth

https://t.co/UkzuXTPWzO

[Annemarie Dray @AnnemarieDray]

It would be criminal for the Manchester United board not to invest in their women’s team and give them much needed squad depth. That team are out there giving there absolute all every time they step on the pitch and shining so bright in CL. They DESERVE a board that backs them.

[Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold]

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 federal sex crimes probe, according to emails & docs @business obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account & source familiar

🎁 https://t.co/hD2xtTV5o4

[Sofia Horta e Costa @SofiaHCBBG]

Cristiano Ronaldo has become a billionaire largely from what he earns on the field rather than off it - unique among the world's richest athletes

In the first comprehensive calculation of his net worth, we estimate CR7 is worth $1.4 billion, post tax
https://t.co/OZOErM3akm

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Very good slide pack from @OxfordEnergy about one of my favorite topics: surging Chinese oil production.

"... closely attuned to government efforts to sustain domestic production for energy security..."

#OOTT #China

Link: https://t.co/tazQvCxOlN

[Karoline Kan @KarolineCQKan]

In just a few decades, China went from choking smog to clean-energy dominance — revealing the strength and risks of state control https://t.co/5pVdJsfFqo

[Karoline Kan @KarolineCQKan]

China has revived some Covid-era health controls in the southern Guangdong province to prevent the spread of a painful mosquito-borne viral disease https://t.co/esNVX699gN