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The price of a lithium-ion battery pack used to power an electric vehicle has plunged 89% in the last decade. It could drop even further in…
As if Tesla's inclusion in to the S&P 500 and ARK Invest's batshit insane impressive fund inflows over the last couple weeks haven't been enough to make you consider a top…
Natural gas futures are down more than 10% on Monday morning following new weather models that suggest warmer weather is ahead. Meteorologists at BAMWX show one model…
Just hours after Elon Musk took to Twitter to reveal to the world that Tim Cook wouldn't take his phone calls when he was looking for a…
Having just recently agreed a new production quota, which along with vaccine hype has spurred oil prices to their highest since March, OPEC just reduced projections…
Saxo Bank projects silver will soar to a record $50 an ounce in 2021, powered by loose Federal Reserve monetary policy and a weak dollar,…
The spread between March and April natural gas futures collapsed to zero on Tuesday. The spread is critical in gauging how tight supplies will be…
It appears both Iran and Venezuela are ready and willing to test the outgoing Trump administration in a major gambit to skirt sanctions in a…
President-Elect Joe Biden has long signaled he'll seek US reentry into participation in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, brokered under the prior Obama…
While there was a lot of uncertainty about the OPEC+ meeting, this headline (from Bloomberg) was not one of them... *SAUDI ARABIA MULLS RESIGNING ROLE…
France's leading efforts to push for European sanctions on fellow NATO member Turkey has picked up steam, with Paris expected to propose the punitive action…
In what appears to be a continuing spillover from Tesla's recent contested recall of its Model S and Model X vehicles in China due to…
With just weeks to go until President-Elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20, Axios reports that Israel is preparing for the possibility that Trump…
In what could mark the beginning of another era of the "space race", China has officially launched an unmanned spacecraft to the moon with plans…
On Thursday morning, Tropical Storm Eta made landfall over North Florida and has become the 12th named storm to make landfall out of a record-breaking…
A weaker U.S. dollar, rising inflation risks and demand driven by additional fiscal and monetary stimulus from major central banks will spur a bull market…
While Joe Biden has been busy speaking out of both sides of his mouth about what his position on fracking would be, if elected, another…
Natural-gas futures soared to levels not seen in more than seven quarters this week, as colder weather in the latest round of forecast data suggests…
Crude future prices spiked on Thursday after OPEC said Thursday that the "worst is over" for the oil market. Front month crude contracts were up…
A significant cooldown has arrived, with the jet stream from Canada plunging this weekend, which will allow the eastern United States to experience its first…