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• Saudi Arabia's Needs Have Become Iran's Problems

  Published 08 May 2018 | viewed 23,368 times

  While Israel has been the barking dog pushing hostilities against Iran, it is the Saudis that are truly most threatened by Iran’s return to the…

• Goldman’s Favorite Trade For 2018

  Published 01 May 2018 | viewed 10,796 times

  Confirming that what Jeff Gundlach predicted last December, when the DoubleLine CEO said his favorite trade for 2018 is to be long commodities, has been spot…

• UBS: Petroyuan Will Undermine U.S. Market Dominance

  Published 30 April 2018 | viewed 11,983 times

  RMB-denominated oil contracts began trading for the first time in Shanghai on March 26. We believe that in the long term this will ultimately change…

• Higher Oil Prices Could Unleash Market Turmoil

  Published 24 April 2018 | viewed 14,777 times

  While traders have been closely following the push higher in 10Y yields,  which rose as high as 2.996 percent on Monday, as well as the dramatic short squeeze in…

• Oil Slips As U.S. Scales Back Confrontation With Russia

  Published 16 April 2018 | viewed 11,027 times

  The U.S.' declaration that the overnight missile strikes against Syria would be limited and a "one-time shot" may tamp down some of the risk to…

• Is Oil Demand Growth Overrated?

  Published 12 April 2018 | viewed 15,024 times

  Organic demand or population growth alone (absent surging debt) among the consumer base that consumes in excess of 90% of global oil, is collapsing. I…

• Iran Threatens To Restart Nuclear Enrichment Program

  Published 11 April 2018 | viewed 13,840 times

  Iran is threatening to restart its controversial nuclear enrichment program, as the head of the Islamic Republic's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) revealed on Sunday that…

• Is The U.S. Government Doing Enough To Protect Power Grids?

  Published 04 April 2018 | viewed 18,175 times

  Just as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea are finally beginning to cool (while animosity between the U.S. and Russia intensifies), a recent industry…

• China Takes First Step In Paying For Crude Imports In Yuan

  Published 02 April 2018 | viewed 35,869 times

  Just days after Beijing officially launched  Yuan-denominated crude oil futures (with a bang, as shown in the chart below, surpassing Brent trading volume) which are expected to…

• Alibaba, Ford Unveil China’s First Car Vending Machine

  Published 02 April 2018 | viewed 10,936 times

  China's Alibaba wasn't the first company to create a car vending machine - that honor belongs to a Singaporean entrepreneur who transformed Singapore's Autobahn building into…

• The Petrodollar Isn’t Dead Yet

  Published 01 April 2018 | viewed 27,326 times

  A number of pieces have to fall into place before the petrodollar moves into second place...Few geoeconomic game-changers are more spectacular than yuan-denominated future crude…

• China Prepares Death Blow To The Dollar

  Published 24 March 2018 | viewed 150,978 times

  On March 26 China will finally launch a yuan-dominated oil futures contract. Over the last decade there have been a number of “false-starts,” but this time…

• Trump Bans Venezuela’s Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency

  Published 19 March 2018 | viewed 14,781 times

  Cryptos are moving sharply lower in response to news that President Trump has issued an executive order banning the U.S. purchases of the "Petro", the…

• Audi Unveils Its Flying Smart-Car

  Published 14 March 2018 | viewed 13,706 times

  Considerable improvements in battery technologies and technological advances in manned electric flight have spurred established automakers to begin examining the feasibility of flying automobiles, as both…

• Robo-Taxi Set For Arizona Rollout

  Published 20 February 2018 | viewed 10,800 times

  Waymo, a unit of Alphabet, is set to launch a ride-sharing service similar to Uber, but with no human driver behind the wheel. Officials in…

• Hezbollah Leader Threatens To ‘’Disable’’ Disputed Israeli Gas Operations

  Published 19 February 2018 | viewed 16,932 times

  During a televised address in Beirut on Friday Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah once again warned Israel to back off its claims over disputed…

• The Impact Of Gazprom’s China-Russia Gas Pipeline

  Published 17 February 2018 | viewed 29,226 times

  Gazprom’s Power of Siberia pipeline is more than two-thirds complete.  It will be delivering gas to China by the end of this year.  A second…

• The World’s Largest “Virtual Power Plant”

  Published 08 February 2018 | viewed 12,959 times

  After building the world's largest lithium battery in Australia nearly 40 days ahead of schedule, Tesla has announced plans to build the world's largest "virtual…

• China’s Final Frontier – Introducing The “Polar Silk Road”

  Published 29 January 2018 | viewed 9,492 times

  China is expanding its "One Belt, One Road" initiative to satisfy a long-sought geopolitical objective: A claim to the Arctic. It has been nearly five…

• Crypto-Miners Buy Russian Power Stations

  Published 17 January 2018 | viewed 20,838 times

  Two electric power stations in Russia were recently sold to a cryptocurrency miner looking to expand his operations – the latest sign that the country’s…