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How To Trade The Next Big Move In Oil Prices

Sep 10, 2021 at 11:10 | Editorial Dept

When trading, it is easy to get caught up in the feeling that you must always have a view. There are stories told and movies made about traders who see…

California Looks To Burn More Fossil Fuels To Avert Blackouts

Sep 10, 2021 at 10:31 | ZeroHedge

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 during hot summer days, and…

Oil Faces Demand Risk Despite Supply Outages

Sep 10, 2021 at 10:04 | Editorial Dept

U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are trading higher on Friday, clawing back some of this week’s losses in the process. The catalysts behind the early strength are growing…

Who Controls The New Taliban Government?

Sep 10, 2021 at 10:01 | Editorial Dept

Geopolitics Afghanistan’s new Taliban cabinet will see its Interior Ministry led by Sirajuddin Haqqani, an individual who was linked to al-Qaeda and responsible for carrying out numerous terrorist attacks. Further,…

Oil Prices Climb As Protests Threaten Libyan Production

Sep 10, 2021 at 09:56 | Editorial Dept

While oil prices responded upward this week on API data, they were also responding to events in Libya, where protests are threatening oil output ahead of hoped-for December…

Doomed U.S. Nuclear Power Plants May Get Financial Reprieve

Sep 10, 2021 at 09:29 | Irina Slav

The Illinois House has passed a bill envisaging some $700 million in incentives for two nuclear power plants operated by Exelon that the company earlier this year said it will…

Gas Prices Are Exploding But North Sea Drillers Struggle To Profit

Sep 09, 2021 at 11:19 | Irina Slav

Natural gas producers in the North Sea are in a rush to increase production as a supply squeeze lifted gas prices in the UK and Europe to record…

Why Hedge Funds Are Turning Bullish On Oil Again

Sep 09, 2021 at 11:00 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Money managers put an end to weeks of sell-offs in the most traded petroleum contracts last week, signaling that the oil price correction seen in August may have…

Can The Global Shipping Industry Really Go Green?

Sep 09, 2021 at 10:58 | Oxford Business Group

As environmental concerns become increasingly pressing for governments and businesses alike, the shipping industry is taking steps to reduce its carbon footprint. In late August Danish…

Europe Is Subsidizing Its Way Into Electric Vehicle Leadership

Sep 08, 2021 at 13:31 | Felicity Bradstock

As Europe looks to lead the world in electric vehicle (EV) uptake, many governments are incentivizing the switch from traditionally-fuelled cars to electric alternatives, hoping to end the…

An Extremely Low-Tech Solution To Our Energy Storage Problem

Sep 08, 2021 at 13:11 | Haley Zaremba

In the past decade, renewable energies have advanced leaps and bounds and dramatically dropped in price. Wind and solar have become scalable, tradable as commodities, and have even…

The Major Problem With EVs No One Is Talking About

Sep 07, 2021 at 15:56 | Irina Slav

When GM earlier this year started recalling Bolts, it issued a warning to owners of the EV: don’t charge your car battery to 100 percent. Normally, this would…

Why The UAE Gave Pakistan An Oil Concession For The First Time Ever

Sep 07, 2021 at 13:47 | Simon Watkins

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) is the key corporate proxy at the centre of the U.S.’s Middle East pushback against increasing…

Oil Prices Slide Despite Supply Disruption

Sep 07, 2021 at 12:15 | Tom Kool

Oil prices fell on Tuesday morning as fears grew that Asian demand would not recover as quickly as originally expected. Supply disruptions from Hurricane Ida were not significant enough…

A 150-Year Old Idea Could Lead To A Breakthrough In Space Travel

Sep 06, 2021 at 15:20 | Alex Kimani

The increasing frequency of both natural and man-made catastrophes such as worldwide pandemics and climate catastrophes has re-validated the urgency to establish humanity as a multi-planet species. Indeed,…

What Does The Return Of The Taliban Mean For Oil Markets?

Sep 06, 2021 at 13:25 | Matthew Smith

In a stunning turn of events, the Taliban swept across Afghanistan seizing the capital Kabul nearly three weeks ago and taking control of the country in a campaign…

Who's To Blame For High Gas Prices?

Sep 03, 2021 at 15:26 | Haley Zaremba

Earlier this year, as oil prices recovered from their pandemic lows and oil-producing companies miraculously stuck to their pledged production cuts, headlines were flooded with semi-alarmist speculation about…

Chevron Braces For Activist Investor Fight

Sep 03, 2021 at 14:53 | Tsvetana Paraskova

Chevron has recently met with representatives of activist investor hedge fund Engine No. 1 to talk about plans for emissions reductions, as the U.S. supermajor is getting ready…

Investors Are Increasingly Aware Of ‘Carbon Intensity’

Sep 03, 2021 at 14:50 | Leonard Hyman & William Tilles

Measuring carbon intensity is about to become a big business. The Big Four accounting firms have announced huge expansions of staff and investment to cater to this new…

Weaponizing Carbon Dioxide In The 21st Century

Sep 03, 2021 at 14:40 | Fernando C. Hernandez

In the 20th century, oil became a major geopolitical weapon, most notably during OPEC’s 1973 oil embargo which caused…

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