Australia desperately needs within the next 2 years more installations of wind and solar energy plants to avert severe blackouts. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, has offered to save Australians from their dependency from the state by installing battery storage worth… Read More ›
Economy & Finance
VW set to plead guilty to emissions in the U.S.
While there have been hundreds of articles saying how much pollution VW has caused with its cheating scandal for which it has now agreed to pay up to $25 billion in fines in the U.S. alone, with the Trump administration… Read More ›
Trump Administration could reset U.S. Japan relations back to the 1980s
While the U.S. government may want Japan to open up its agricultural sector, Japan would prefer that the talks revolve around issues such as foreign direct investment, infrastructure and energy. Japan has outright rejected U.S. demands for more access to… Read More ›
Wind Power Blows Through Nuclear, Coal as Costs Plunge at Sea
Unless you add some wind, water and electric power plants don’t mix well naturally. What is being described as an engineering miracle at the very least is developers are putting jumbo-jet sized wind turbines into stormy seas in the renewable… Read More ›
Important News Floating In Asian Waters Awaits The International Oil Market
Floating storage off Singapore is a less visible number is flashing a warning sign for the global oil industry, say analysts, even as oil prices have been pushed to their lowest levels of 2017 as U.S. crude inventories surged by 8.2… Read More ›
Resurgence of U.S. shale oil changes the balance of power with traditional oil producers
U.S. shale producers realise that with great power comes great responsibility. In what could potentially offset OPEC’s move to cut oil productions so as to reduce the glut in the global oil pool, U.S. shale oil producers are plotting an… Read More ›
Likelihood of SEC approving U.S ETF high
Although many investors have are hoping that the SEC will approve the creation of the United States’ first bitcoin exchange-traded fund, a few cautious ones, such as Michael Venuto, chief investment officer at Toroso Investments prefer to avoid the volatility… Read More ›
OECD’s Global Economic Outlook Shows Lots to Worry About
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is of the view that potential currency volatility, overblown stock markets, or risks from increased trade barriers may not be withstood by the global economy and it may not be strong enough. The… Read More ›
Cash Registers Isn’t Likely To Get A Ringing By Japan’s Drive To End ‘Death By Overwork’
Proposing fresh legislation limiting overtime, potentially to 45 to 60 hours a month, the Japanese government is taking aim at the workforce’s reputation for long hours. 23 percent of companies have workers putting in more than 80 hours of overtime… Read More ›
Analyst Predicts Bitcoin Could Trade Above Gold and Hit $3000 By This Year End
A senior analysts is of the opinion that bitcoin could be trading above gold by the end of the year and the price of bitcoin could hit s much as $3,and this digital coin could hit a fresh record high. According to… Read More ›