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Men wearing military uniform walk along Red Square in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow on February 13, 2023. Alexander Nemenov | Afp | Getty Images The coming months will be critical in figuring out how Russia’s economy is holding up in the face of a new suite of sanctions, and for how

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk remarked that he wouldn’t mind Tesla going bankrupt if it means a rival company builds a better car, according to a member of the firm’s board. “I disagree whenever Elon says I don’t mind Tesla getting into bankruptcy if somebody else comes up

A work-over rig performs maintenance on an oil well in the Permian Basin oil production area near Wink, Texas August 22, 2018. Nick Oxford | Reuters Russia will cut oil output by 500,000 barrels per day in March, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday, following Western bans on Moscow’s crude and oil products

A quality control worker checks a solar panel at the Hanwha Q Cells solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Dalton, Georgia, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Since President Joe Biden signed the historic Inflation Reduction Act into law last August, companies have announced more than 100,000 clean

India will secure oil from anywhere as long as the terms are beneficial, India’s energy minister told CNBC. India is the third largest oil consumer in the world, and according to Hardeep Singh Puri, accounts for 30% of global consumption. “Today we feel confident that we’ll be able to use our market to source from

In this article 9868-HK XPEV Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Xpeng is pushing aggressively into international markets. The Chinese electric car start-up launched its P7 sedan and G9 SUV in Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden. Zhang Peng | LightRocket | Getty Images Xpeng, a Chinese electric vehicle startup, on Friday launched two of

Shell said last month that windfall taxes imposed by the European Union and U.K. following the surge in profits would cost the group about $2 billion. Paul Ellis | Afp | Getty Images British oil giant Shell on Thursday posted its highest-ever annual profit, bolstered by soaring fossil fuel prices and robust demand since Russia’s

In this article COP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alaskan oil extraction site. Lowell Georgia | Getty Images President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday recommended a scaled-down version of a major oil drilling project in the North Slope of Alaska, taking a step toward approving the $8 billion Willow plan that climate groups have

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund was established in the 1990s to invest the surplus revenues of the country’s oil and gas sector. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Norway’s sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday reported a record loss of 1.64 trillion Norwegian kroner ($164 billion) for the whole of 2022, citing “very unusual” market conditions. The

A maze of crude oil pipe and equipment is seen with the American and Texas flags flying in the background at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas. Richard Carson | Reuters WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Friday aimed at limiting the president’s ability to draw down the nation’s Strategic

President Joe Biden cheered the news of higher than expected GDP growth and slammed Republican plans to impose a national sales tax in a speech Thursday at a steamfitters union hall in Springfield, Va., his first major economic speech of the new year. “I’m not sure the news could have been any better – economic

In this article UL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Unilever CEO Alan Jope photographed at the World Economic Forum in May 2022. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | Getty Images The CEO of consumer goods giant Unilever said Tuesday that prices would likely continue to rise in the near term, adding that his firm had a playbook

Pressuring oil companies through higher taxes is counterproductive at a time when global crude demand is set to outstrip supply, the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest and most profitable energy company, said during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Asked by CNBC’s Hadley Gamble if a windfall tax on oil profits is

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani speaks during a joint press conference with his French counterpart in Doha on March 28, 2022. Mustafa Abumunes | Afp | Getty Images Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Tuesday appeared to correct a controversial statement his fellow minister made over the

Hungary’s foreign minister strongly criticized the European Union’s sanctions against Russia, arguing they have damaged its members’ economies more than their target’s as well as failing to stop the war in Ukraine. “If we make an assessment, an analysis, about the impact of sanctions, it’s obvious that they have not fulfilled expectations,” Péter Szijjártó told

In this article GOEV FFIE RIDE RIVN FSR LCID TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pedestrians walk past the Tesla Motors official authorized car dealer store in Hong Kong. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Is the first electric-vehicle recession here, or coming soon? As electric-car stocks plummeted in late 2022, the rout

The Group of Seven’s oil price cap scheme intended to limit Russian oil export revenues is working “so far so good,” according to Amos Hochstein, special presidential coordinator to President Joe Biden. “As oil prices have come down, there’s no doubt that the price cap has, so far, and there’s a long way to go,

A customer hands over an Egyptian pound banknote for a purchase at Al-Monira food market in the Imbaba district of Giza, Egypt, in January 2023. Egypt is one of many countries where consumers are struggling with sharply higher prices, highlighted by the World Economic Forum as the greatest global risk in 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg

An oil pumpjack operates in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images An oil company with a drilling operation in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against the city over its law to ban new wells and phase out all drilling within city

A bagpipe player and a belly dancer on stilts, participants in the “Burning Man” festival, cross a section of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Mike Nelson | AFP | Getty Images Organizers of the art and cultural festival Burning Man and several environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)