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• Iran’s Currency Crisis Is About To Get Much Worse

  Published 30 August 2018 | viewed 7,224 times

  In a development that must be hard to stomach for the political elite in Tehran, many Iranians are turning to U.S. dollars to offset the…

• Saudi King Overrules World’s Largest IPO

  Published 28 August 2018 | viewed 5,015 times

  Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has demanded that the initial public offering of Saudi Aramco be called off, stepping in to shelve the plans of his…

• EU Weighs New Payment System With Iran To Skirt U.S. Sanctions

  Published 23 August 2018 | viewed 9,074 times

  The European Union is looking favorably at a proposal by Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to set a SWIFT-like payment system between the union and…

• Petro-Yuan Gains Momentum, But It’s A Still Risky Endeavor

  Published 21 August 2018 | viewed 4,510 times

  When the long-awaited yuan-denominated oil futures launched earlier this year, opinions were split: one camp argued with passion that the days of the petrodollar were…

• Saudis Sovereign Wealth Fund Eyes Tesla Rival

  Published 20 August 2018 | viewed 2,189 times

  Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund may buy an electric car maker competing with Tesla in the luxury car segment, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources. According…

• China's Most Powerful Weapon In The Trade War

  Published 16 August 2018 | viewed 3,841 times

  President Donald Trump’s first year in office must have been a pleasant surprise for Chinese President Xi Jinping. A successful state visit in Beijing and…

• What Role Will The Saudis Play In Tesla's Private Listing?

  Published 14 August 2018 | viewed 5,628 times

  A few days after Elon Musk shocked Wall Street and investors by tweeting that he would take Tesla private at $420 a share, speculation is…

• How Artificial Intelligence Is Taking Over Oil And Gas

  Published 09 August 2018 | viewed 8,630 times

  Artificial intelligence, or rather things like machine learning and automation, which are often wrongly called artificial intelligence, is a big thing in oil and gas…

• UK Motorists Not Interested In EVs

  Published 27 July 2018 | viewed 2,235 times

  Despite the many announcements for new electric vehicle (EV) models coming to the market and government initiatives to support EV adoption, UK motorists remain reluctant—if…

• Drones Are Taking Oil Jobs

  Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 7,102 times

  The drones are coming to oil and gas and they may soon be intelligent enough to replace humans in on-site inspections. That’s what the latest…

• Tesla Scrambles To Become Profitable

  Published 24 July 2018 | viewed 4,867 times

  Tesla has asked some of its suppliers to return parts of payments that the carmaker has made since 2016 in an attempt to turn in…

• Tesla Stock Stumbles On Model 3 Cancellations

  Published 20 July 2018 | viewed 2,492 times

  Tesla (TLSA) stock price fell about 2.5 percent, after a Needham analyst, Rajvindra Gill, downgraded it with his concerns about an increasing rate of Model…

• Is This The Answer To High Gasoline Prices?

  Published 17 July 2018 | viewed 8,904 times

  President Trump is reportedly considering tapping the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gasoline prices in an effort to neuter a political threat ahead of key…

• Tesla’s U.S. Tax Credit Coming To An End

  Published 12 July 2018 | viewed 5,801 times

  Tesla has delivered 200,000 vehicles in the United States, exceeding the threshold above which federal tax credits for EVs start to phase out, a spokesperson…

• Trade War Adds $20,000 To Tesla's New Cars

  Published 10 July 2018 | viewed 1,814 times

  Tesla has raised the retail prices of the vehicles it sells by more than the equivalent of US$20,000 in China, due to the latest tit-for-tat…

• Goldman Sachs Plays Down Trade War Fears

  Published 06 July 2018 | viewed 2,559 times

  U.S. tariffs are set to take effect on China on Friday, with China promising immediate retaliation, kicking off the next phase of the trade war.…

• Venezuela Gets A $5 Billion Lifeline

  Published 04 July 2018 | viewed 3,389 times

  China’s Development Bank has approved a US$5-billion loan for Venezuela’s oil industry, Bloomberg reports, quoting the troubled South American country’s Finance Minister Simon Zerpa. “We’ve…

• Jeff Bezos' Ambitious Space Plans

  Published 28 June 2018 | viewed 2,604 times

  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is offering a chance to buy tickets for space travel starting next year — and is taking on SpaceX’s chief Elon…

• Treachery At Tesla: Rogue Worker Steals Secret Data

  Published 19 June 2018 | viewed 2,189 times

  An employee of Tesla has sabotaged the company’s operations by changing code in an internal product and sharing company data with third parties, chief executive…

• Solar Boom Unfazed By New Tariffs

  Published 14 June 2018 | viewed 2,153 times

  New solar generation capacity in the United States hit 55 percent of total new generation capacity additions in the first quarter of the year, despite…