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A new report from BloombergNEF reveals the ten states with electric vehicle sales at or above 10% of all new passenger car sales in the…
One day after the Geneva-based UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) warned central banks are at risk of triggering a full-blown global recession in…
Via SchiffGold.com, Central bank gold buying continues to sizzle. Central banks globally added a net 77 tons to their reserves in August, according to the…
Shares of the French train maker Alstom crashed as much as 38%, and its bonds fell the most on record on Thursday, following the company's…
The European Union has officially started its anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles. The EU is investigating because it claims that emerging data indicates a…
Panasonic's new battery plant in Kansas will require an amount of energy equivalent to that used by a small city, forcing a nearby utility to…
Tesla released its production and delivery numbers for Q3, stating it delivered 435,059 vehicles and produced 430,488 vehicles, missing consensus delivery estimates of 456,722, according to Bloomberg.…
In 2022 oil prices peaked at more than $100 per barrel, hitting an eight-year high, after a full year of turmoil in the energy markets…
The CEOs of Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. blasted United Auto Workers boss Shawn Fain for expanding strikes on Friday - now in…
In the mid-term, nuclear power plants are considered by some experts to be the most efficient transitional solution for achieving global climate goals. Criticism is…
In 1932, Americans were doggedly trudging through year three of the Great Depression when a candidate for president spoke of “the human importance of electric…
Iran has revealed plans to build a new oil refinery in Syria's Homs governorate with a capacity of 140,000 barrels per day (bpd) as part…
The credibility of the International Energy Agency continues to wane as it continues to advocate for an urgent shift towards a decarbonized economy. According to…
Today in "the ESG narrative continues to crumble to the ground" news, it was announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a subsidiary of…
Tesla's Chinese exports can expect to be included in the EU's recently announced investigation into Chinese subsidiaries in the EV market, according to EU executive vice-president…
Crude prices will likely get a fresh boost this week, as stockpiles at the key US storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, risk collapsing to the…
My estimation of global official gold reserves hit 38,764 tonnes in Q2 2023, breaking its previous record from 1965. The new high confirms the world…
Over the past month we had repeatedly pointed out that at a time when oil and other energy commodities were soaring - and Brent last…
About three weeks after Shell, Europe's largest oil company, quietly shelved the world's largest corporate plan to develop carbon offsets, the world's number four iron…
For years, green and socially responsible investments, aka ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), have dominated the investing world. However, according to Bloomberg, a seismic shift is…