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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…
Oil prices were choppy last week, but as of this writing, have so far failed to break out of last week’s trading range. Further to…
Yesterday, the ECB announced that in Q4, it would "modestly lower the pace of net asset purchases under the PEPP than in the previous two…
California's power grid transition to renewable energy sources appears to be backfiring. The push into clean energy is not producing enough power to meet demand…
Just hours after China revealed yet another high in producer price inflation, Beijing has taken the unprecedented step of releasing oil from its national crude…
Hurricane Ida's disruption to the U.S. offshore energy production in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst in 16 years. It has already stressed domestic…
Remember when China vowed last year to hit peak carbon emissions in 2030 and to reach carbon neutrality in 2060? Maybe it will (spoiler alert:…
2021 has been a harder year for many investors than the headline indices imply. It’s been a year where ‘ESG’ and ‘Quant’ remain key structural…
Future electricity systems must be made more resilientProlonged blackouts in Louisiana following Hurricane Ida are a reminder the power grid needs to become more resilient…
China and the US have failed to reach a climate agreement after Biden's climate envoy John Kerry pushed Beijing to make more public pledges before a…
For years, the rumors of Apple developing a mass market car were just that: rumors. But now it is starting to feel as though we…
Aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange hit a 10-year high Tuesday, extending a year-long vertical surge as demand rebounds and supply shrinks, as smelters in…
It's the end of summer, and millions of Americans are about to pay the highest gas prices since 2014, thanks to Hurricane Ida's blow to…
Excited at the prospect of gold at $10,000 and Bitcoin at $1,000,000 in short order? Here's one way it could happen. The collective brain trust…
The world’s energy needs are growing with its population. However, as Visual Capitalist's Govind Bhutada details below, achieving a net-zero carbon economy while meeting our…
Astronomers researched a planetary system only 35 light-years away that contains rocky exoplanets, and they found that it may have a planet in the habitable…