Markets

Cooling Emissions Are Set to Triple by 2050 as Heat Waves Intensify

Glencore Sees $3.3 Billion Trading Profit as Iran War Rattles Oil Markets Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade...

Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

Middle East Turmoil and the AI Boom Fuel Windfall for Mining Giants

Glencore Sees $3.3 Billion Trading Profit as Iran War Rattles Oil Markets CityAM.com is the online presence of City A.M., London's first free daily bu...

Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

Indian Oil Eyes Stakes In Gas Carriers To Cut U.S. LPG Freight Costs

Glencore Sees $3.3 Billion Trading Profit as Iran War Rattles Oil Markets Indian Oil Corp. is seeking 50% ownership stakes in very large gas carriers,...

Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

US Oil Inventories Sag as Hormuz Turmoil Rages On

Glencore Sees $3.3 Billion Trading Profit as Iran War Rattles Oil Markets What I Cover Julianne Geiger is a veteran energy journalist and market analy...

Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

Taiwan Halts $800 Million in Spot LNG Buys From Papua New Guinea

Glencore Sees $3.3 Billion Trading Profit as Iran War Rattles Oil Markets Taiwan has suspended approximately 500,000 metric tons of liquefied natural...

Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Refined Products Prices Rising, Again

Could someone please remind little EJ Antoni that GDP/M2 aka velocity is not constant? Check out his Twitter to see why I ask. And please tell Koptis...

Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Reducing Employment Growth

One of the explanations for the “new normal” in employment growth is not deficient aggregate demand, but deficient labor force growth. The  NYT articl...

Jul 28, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Can an AI Black Box Be Trusted to Run a Nuclear Reactor?

Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of p...

Jul 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

The Carbon Capture Boom Is Starting to Crack

Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows Felicity Bradstock is a writer and journalist based in Mexico City. She writes fo...

Jul 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

UCLA Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Pure Hydrogen Fuel

Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of p...

Jul 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

EU Backs Off Methane Rules as Energy Security Fears Mount

Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows Felicity Bradstock is a writer and journalist based in Mexico City. She writes fo...

Jul 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Estimates of Q2 Chinese GDP

From BOFIT today: From the analysis: Official figures show the Chinese economy grew by 4.3 % y-o-y in the second quarter of this year (up 3.6 % q-o-q...

Jul 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

The Red Sea Is Becoming Saudi Arabia's Biggest Oil Bottleneck

Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows Cyril Widdershoven is a senior maritime, energy, and geopolitical analyst and Sen...

Jul 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

$4,000 Gold Is Changing Lives Across Central Asia

Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows Eurasianet is an independent news organization that covers news from and about th...

Jul 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Back to May, Cost of Living-Wise

According to Cleveland Fed nowcasts today: Figure 1: CPI (blue), core CPI (red), both in logs 2025M01=0. July is July 23 m/m nowcast. Source: BLS, Cle...

Jul 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Brent above $100

Huh – haven’t hear from the world’s most incompetent consultant …. Koptis. Didn’t he say oil would be at $300 a barrel? The intelligence guys are work...

Jul 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Don’t Depend on the Foreign Official Sector to Keep on Financing the US CA Deficit

If previous trends hold: Figure 1: Total Federal debt held by public (black line), held by Fed (yellow bar), held by foreign official sector (green ba...

Jul 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

US Crude Oil Inventories Build As Hormuz Shipping Headache Drags On

US Crude Oil Inventories Build As Hormuz Shipping Headache Drags On What I Cover Julianne Geiger is a veteran energy journalist and market analyst wit...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Energy IPOs Are Booming Thanks to AI’s Insatiable Thirst for Power

India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of professi...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read

Markets

Norway's Oil Output Beats Forecasts as Hormuz Traffic Stays Near Crisis Lows

India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous Jan-Thore is a Norwegian oil and gas expert with two decades of industry experience acro...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read