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For much of the past year, Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick has had a nice, round number in mind for his 2024 year-end price target: after…
Cautious optimism is creeping back into the cobalt metal market as hedge funds move to physical purchases of the battery metal as prices slump to…
EV manufacturer Polestar, one of several struggling names at the bottom of the EV barrel, says that new hefty EU and US import tariffs on…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Hurricane Beryl to a Category 4 storm from a Category 5 on the…
About eight months after Iran-backed Houthi rebels began seriously disrupting maritime traffic in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, June recorded the highest number of…
This time of year, the din of tourists can be heard in many areas along Georgia’s Black Sea coast. But the beaches of Anaklia are…
A federal court halted President Biden's war on America's energy independence by reversing a temporary moratorium on permitting new licenses for liquified natural gas (LNG)…
Big tech firms like Amazon are actively speaking with utility companies to build artificial intelligence data centers powered by clean, reliable nuclear energy. This move…
Hurricane Beryl strengthened overnight to a powerful Category 5 storm as it churned in the Caribbean Sea. The Cat. 5 storm is the earliest on…
By David Hollis of TruckersNews Operating expenses for trucking companies increased in 2023, according to the results of a new study released on Friday. The…
Authored by Connor O'Keefe via The Mises Institute, On Sunday, activists from the environmentalist organization Extinction Rebellion stormed the green in the final, pivotal moments…
After several weeks of escalating tit-for-tat trade war salvos between China and Europe, threatening to scuttle billions in auto trade between the two blocs, over…
After soaring to a record high just days after its November '21 IPO (at $78/share), the fate of EV maker Rivian had been a brutal…
Saudi Aramco controls 259 billion barrels worth of oil and gas reserves, which is unmatched by any other company globally. This is a key factor…
At a time when the peak of "green" virtue signaling has come and gone, we regret to inform you that all that jawboning and posturing…
As of early last week, Elon Musk's SpaceX had completed 356 launches, 319 landings, and 290 relights, according to flight data from Fox News. This…
Via SchiffGold.com, China’s recent attempt to secure a rare earth minerals stockpile ended in failure when a competitor stepped in to snag the deal… Vital…
Until the Chinese government introduces more robust stimulus packages to counter soft economic data and exporters in the world's second-largest economy ease up on flooding…
Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been intensifying missile and drone attacks, targeting commercial vessels in the southern Red Sea, critical Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint, and the Gulf…
"The US has committed a substantial military force at great financial cost to protecting the Red Sea. Our protective effort is failing and flailing," David Asher,…