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It looks as though Finland is starting to come back around to the idea of nuclear power - and that they plan on taking their…
Delta Air Lines Inc. delivered a profit in the third quarter but warned soaring jet fuel prices might result in an unprofitable fourth quarter. Since August, spot…
Beijing said on Tuesday it would allow price fluctuations of power derived from coal-fired plants to improve the country's power market as shortfalls in power…
As EV owners are starting to, unfortunately, learn, electricity to power your "green" vehicles has to come from somewhere. This is a tough dose of…
Russia's natural gas giant, Gazprom, raised its 2021 price guidance for natural gas exports, while signaling caution on volumes it could ship, as Europe’s energy…
China's energy crunch has resulted in power rationing in more than half of the provinces and affected the world's biggest production base for electronic gadgets…
Several weeks after Beijing's seemingly final ban in a long series of crackdowns on bitcoin trading, when the PBOC said that all crypto-related transactions are…
Coal supply shortages in Asia and Europe are pushing prices for the dirtiest fossil fuel to record highs and have become a challenge for US…
Last week, British Army personnel were on standby as service station pumps ran dry across the country, forcing vendors to ration sales as a shortage of truck…
Global central bankers have been out and about continuing to promote a narrative that inflation is "transitory." We've seen it from the likes of Powell,…
Just one week ago, we highlighted the first victim of the latest "rogue wave" in global natural gas markets. As Miami-based Statar Capital gave up its "hefty gains" from…
China is officially panicking. Now that the global energy crisis has slammed China's economy, leading to the first contractionary PMI since March 2020 as a…
Europe's energy crisis is not contained to natural gas, and as we've discussed in the last five days, a "winter of discontent" is quickly emerging…
Just yesterday we warned that a "Power Supply Shock Looms" as the energy crisis gripping Europe - and especially the UK - was set to…
Compounding the ongoing UK energy crisis is BP plc, a multinational oil and gas company, which said it plans to restrict deliveries of gasoline and…
Over the weekend, Morgan Stanley's global energy head Martijn Rats shared a comprehensive yet streamlined analysis of what happened in 2021 that has sent many commodity…
While General Motors is in the midst of EV hell, dealing with a massive recall for its Chevy Bolt and shuttering production as a result…
Spain's Socialist-led government announced temporary tax cuts on power prices in an attempt to drive down household electricity costs, which have surged this summer and…
Nicholas intensified into a Category 1 hurricane early this morning before making landfall southwest of Galveston, Texas. The storm has been downgraded to a tropical…
China is taking a page out of the Keynesian central banking playbook on how to micromanage an entire economy and is now reportedly fining auto…