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Commodities

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    Surging US power demand set to exceed supply, says Bain Premium content

    The boom in data centres for AI will raise prices for ratepayers and risks slowing the energy transition

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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ gets its ships

    An FT investigation into the role of a British accountant, a London-based broker and Dubai companies in the acquisition of vessels

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    LexRio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto is not bagging a bargain with lithium deal

    Extreme volatility in price of key battery material reflects uncertainty over current global market for electric vehicles

    A brine pool used to extract lithium at a salt flat near Susques, Argentina
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Oil
    Who and what is driving oil price volatility

    Algos versus humans

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto to buy Arcadium Lithium in $6.7bn cash deal

    Acquisition will make Anglo-Australian miner one of world’s biggest producers of key battery material

    Technicians from the Orocobre mining company work on an evaporation pond test at the Olaroz salt flat. One person in a yellow suit and red helmet leans over to measure the water, while another in a dark jacket and white helmet observes and takes notes. The landscape features dry, mountainous terrain in the background.
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
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    India’s belated oil rush

    India hurries to extract oil before the sun sets on the fossil fuel industry

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Chevron in talks to sell Texas gas assets to Tokyo Gas for up to $1bn

    Deal would bolster Japanese group’s drive to secure supplies for home country, which relies on fossil fuel imports for energy

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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Oil
    Oil prices sink on worries over Chinese demand

    Crude gives up part of recent gains as run of big market swings continues

    A fuel delivery truck passes by a fuel storage container along the shore of Chelsea Creek in East Boston, Massachusetts
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    India in rush to boost oil production before energy transition

    Minister urges majors to explore before efforts to prevent climate change undermine carbon fuel market

    A person walks past an oil refinery operated by Bharat Petroleum Corp in Mumbai
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    How Russia’s LNG ‘dark fleet’ disguises its activity Premium content

    Facing western sanctions, the vessels have increasingly engaged in activities to confuse observers

    Fog obscures an ice-class tanker used for shipping liquefied natural gas
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Princeton University
    Princeton reverses ban on fossil fuel companies funding research

    Officials claim university’s policy harmed scholars working to combat effects of climate change

    Princeton University students participate in a protest on campus against the university’s fossil fuel investments
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
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    Business school teaching case study: capture or cut carbon to make steel greener?

    The sector is responsible for one-tenth of global annual greenhouse gas emissions but cleaning up the production process is challenging

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    McDonald's Corp
    McDonald’s accuses meatpackers of price-fixing in lawsuit over beef costs

    Case pits the world’s largest burger chain against Cargill, JBS, National Beef and Tyson Foods

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Oil
    Oil surges above $80 as conflict and storm spark supply fears

    Hedge funds reverse short positions as market has surged nearly 20% from year-to-date low in the last month

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    EU energy
    Ukraine recognises Slovakia’s ‘acute dependence’ on Russian gas flows

    PM Denys Shmyhal tells counterpart Robert Fico that Kyiv will meet obligations without renewing Gazprom transit deal

    Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico, left, and Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal in Uzhhorod on Monday
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Equinor ASA
    Norway’s Equinor takes 10% stake in renewables group Ørsted

    Company becomes second-largest shareholder in world’s biggest offshore wind farm developer behind Danish government

    A drone transports a red cargo box near a large offshore wind turbine
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto in talks to buy Arcadium Lithium

    Deal would make miner one of world’s largest producers of key battery material

    A worker wearing a Rio Tinto hard hat and orange safety vest examines trays of cylindrical jadarite rock samples using a green spray bottle at the Rio Tinto Group research center in Loznica, Serbia
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    UK energy
    UK power market reforms pose danger to industry and investment, ministers told

    Trade lobby groups warn that proposals for regional pricing risk ‘deindustrialisation’ and higher costs

    Power pylons and wind turbines
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    TotalEnergies
    TotalEnergies considers foray into copper trading, top executive says

    Comments in closed-door conference show oil groups seek to capitalise on demand for metals needed for energy transition

    An employee monitors copper cable which is rolled up before passing through a rolling mill to become cable at a manufacturer in France
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil prices log biggest weekly rise in almost 2 years as Middle East tensions mount

    Brent crude up almost 10% amid speculation of Israeli or Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure

    An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat sails along the Persian Gulf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Is the Middle East on the brink of an ‘oil war’?

    Israel is considering attacks on Iranian energy sites, for which Iran might then retaliate, affecting global supplies

    Flames and thick black smoke rise from an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Oil surges after Biden comments on Israeli retaliation

    US officials believe response to Iranian strike will be measured enough to avoid escalation

    US President Joe Biden departs the White House in Washington on October 3
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Anglo American PLC
    Anglo American chief says not ‘inevitable’ buyer will emerge after group slims down

    Wanblad plays down prospects of new bid after failed BHP takeover attempt

    AWorker outside a De Beers mining site.
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Libya
    Libya restarts oil production after political crisis

    Resumption following factional power struggle helps allay concerns over potential disruption from Middle East conflict

    Oil storage tanks in Zawiyah, Libya
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    What a Middle East oil price shock could mean for US consumers Premium content

    A worst-case scenario for the market could send prices spiralling into the triple digits

    Smoke clouds erupt during an Israeli airstrike on Khiam in southern Lebanon
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