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Satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz. Source: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Citic Securities Warns of a ‘Hormuz Moment’ as Global Banks Flag Energy Shock Risk

by Oguz BuyukyildirimApril 21, 2026April 21, 2026

Citic Securities is calling the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz a potential global energy shock, with implications for the global economic order, drawing a direct comparison to the 1956 Suez Crisis. The argument is not about the conflict itself. It is about what control of trade routes does to global power. The Energy […]

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