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Nissan is the latest manufacturer to aim to cut EV costs in order to keep up with an increasingly competitive and saturated landscape. The company…
US oil prices have recently jumped above the $80 a barrel mark - the highest level since late 2023, sending worrying signals to the Federal…
Authored by Justin Bis via RealClear Wire, The Securities and Exchange Commission is at it again. Straying from its core mission of “protecting investors, maintaining…
“Electric vehicles (EVs) are pilling up on lots across the country as the green revolution hits a speed bump, data show.”~ USA Today, November 14,…
A twin crisis is unfolding for the administration as the Ukrainian military bombs key crude refineries deep within Russian territory with suicide drones. The administration…
After the US took several steps to prevent Chinese companies from acquiring both the latest Nvidia AI chips as well as Europe's semiconductor titan ASML…
According to Bloomberg's sources, Russia and China have sealed a deal with Iran-backed Houthis to allow their commercial vessels to transit the Red Sea and Gulf of…
While Tesla is the most familiar name across the world’s largest corporate buyers, several companies have amassed far more bitcoin - leading their share prices…
The examples of the ESG fraud imploding over the last 6 months simply aren't stopping. The latest has come from Texas, where the state is…
It will take a mighty big change of fortune for the electric vehicle (EV) industry to meet Illinois’ goal of one million EVs on the…
Via The Cradle Israel’s NewMed Energy reported on Tuesday that natural gas exports from the Leviathan field to Egypt increased by 28 percent in 2023.…
Many crypto skeptics laughed over a month ago when, back on February 5, Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick predicted that Ether (which was then trading…
Despite pretty much the entire country making it clear that EV mandates are hurting the industry (with major automakers like Ford and GM slashing investment),…
Meet the WindRunner. At a jaw-dropping 365 feet long and 79 feet tall, it's a cargo plane unlike anything the world has seen before -- stretching 80…
Bitcoin faces a “sell-side liquidity crisis” by September if institutional inflows continue, an industry analyst says. In a thread on X on March 12, Ki…
To start the week, Ehsan Khoman, the Head of Commodities at MUFG Bank, points out that iron ore ended the session in Asia as one…
Just when you thought the EV market couldn't get more saturated or competitive in China, sales have once again slowed and the country's market leader,…
Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, Gold is still hovering near a nominal record, but the scope for further gains from here may be…
Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Powell might not be overly worried about inflation - with his recent comments reiterating the Federal Reserve is…
One must consider whether the radical left-wing eco-terrorist group that attacked the German power grid on Tuesday to paralyze Tesla's Gigafactory near Berlin, genuinely aims to save…