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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…
Amateur and professional bean counters are starting to take stock of what, exactly has changed during 20 years of war between the US and the…
On Friday, the Biden administration announced new sanctions against one Russian ship and two Russian individuals involved in the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline…
We recently wrote about Europe's soaring, record gas prices as Russian nat gas supplies have been suspiciously low, amid growing concerns about Europe's inventory levels…
Just when you thought you would never belly laugh harder than when Elon Musk decided to demonstrate the Cybertruck's shatterproof windows, along comes AI Day…
Anyone watching Tuesday's US market cash session sees red across the board. One of the strongest sell programs in months dumped stocks at the start…
The mining sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries in the COVID-19 recovery. Several countries’ recovery packages have ignited demand for commodities like copper,…
Oil markets started off the week under pressure as continued speculative “long” liquidation amid delta variant demand concerns weighed on prices. However, in an ironic…
As if we weren't throwing enough trillions of dollars away (or, should we say, printing enough trillions away) incentivizing ill conceived "green energy" subsidies, the…
Coal has been experiencing a gradual death in the EU over the last few decades, at least in terms of production on European soil. New…
One week after we first observed the staggering surge in European natural gas prices, those same prices hit a new record high as a slow…
NASA has officially launched a mission to study an asteroid with more than $10,000 quadrillion worth of precious metals on it. The asteroid is literally…