Renewable energy is still expanding faster than fossil fuels around the world despite policy changes in the United States, with oil demand possibly peaking “around 2030”, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
Throughout the late 1990s Fred Hickey, the editor of The High-Tech Strategist, was relentlessly critical of the wild market excesses of the time. So-called “bubbleheads” responded by leaving vile messages on his voicemail. However, he developed a cult following among bearish investors.
The transition to green energy is messy, contradictory and too slow. It’s roughly a decade since 195 countries struck the Paris Agreement, opens new tab at the United Nations’s 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) in France, pledging to hold the average global temperature to “well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”.
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Britain’s competition watchdog on Friday paved the way for tougher regulation to tackle Google’s dominance in online search, under new targeted measures focused on technology giants.
The valuation of ChatGPT developer OpenAI soared to a chart-topping $500 billion in a deal for employees to sell a limited number of shares, financial media reported Thursday.
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India, Iran and other Moscow allies from Asia and Africa have joined the Russia-Belarus Zapad military drills, Russian state media reported on Tuesday, citing the Kremlin.."The coalition force includes task forces and military contingents from the armed forces of the People's Republic of B
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Old-fashioned barter is on the rise in Russia’s foreign trade for the first time since the 1990s, as companies seeking to outfox Western sanctions swap wheat for Chinese cars and flax seeds for building materials.
According to an official document seen Monday by AFP
Growth in oil demand is anaemic globally, with several countries in the crosshairs of US President Donald Trump tariff threats suffering drops, the IEA said Friday.
The EU will seek to rebalance economic ties with China, demanding it eases market access for European firms and loosen export controls on rare earths at a summit this month, the bloc’s chief said Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump began informing, in a wave of letters, a range of trading partners from Japan to Myanmar of sharply higher tariffs on goods they sell into the United States starting August 1
To paraphrase Mark Twain, speculative bubbles don’t repeat themselves, but they often rhyme. The green technology boom that has imploded over the past three years is remarkably similar to the alternative energy bubble that inflated prior to the global financial crisis of 2008. Both frenzies were driven by investors’ unrealistic expectations about how quickly new energy technologies would be taken up.
The US dollar firmed on Monday with the yen at a more than six-week low as investors anticipated a response from Iran to US attacks on its nuclear sites, though some analysts said the FX reaction had been relatively muted.
Qatar held crisis talks this week with energy majors after Israeli strikes on Iran’s huge gas field, which it shares with Qatar, an industry source and a diplomat in the region told Reuters.
The European Union is accelerating free trade talks with Asia following hefty tariffs by US President Donald Trump, the bloc’s trade chief said Wednesday.
