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US natural gas prices have surged in recent months. Global LNG trade for the first ten months of 2021 were up 6%. Prices will likely remain elevated through winter overall as market participants conserve storage inventories until there is a line of sight to getting through winter....

The higher power content of primary aluminum has driven a plunge in prices that have caught many by surprise and still has the potential to go further. The aluminum price has been undermined by falling coal prices in China following efforts by regulators to curb excessive speculation,...

Natural gas prices have risen to seasonal record highs as global gas demand is expanding and supply is not able to keep up. The rise of natural gas prices has started to impact crude oil markets. With gas prices at current levels, some analysts believe that oil-fired power generation ...

The economic restart has laid bare a lopsided transition toward low-carbon energy that has amplified a surge in coal and natural gas prices. U.S. stocks rallied to all-time highs on better-than-expected corporate earnings. Oil prices hit multi-year highs. Investors will watch acti...

Soaring natural gas prices are rippling through global energy markets - and other economic sectors from factories to utilities. An unprecedented combination of factors is roiling world energy markets, rekindling the memories of the 1970s energy crisis and complicating an already uncer...

Tighter climate rules and low investment in baseload capacity will require revisiting taxonomy criteria to ensure a seamless bridge to a zero-carbon future. Europe’s solution to a lack of self-sustainability is to accelerate the deployment of renewables, which are largely recog...

As power demand continues to increase from the onset of COVID-19, power generation disruptions and a lack of infrastructure investment also have played a role in the recent surge. The Chinese government has recently ordered top state-owned energy companies - including coal, electricit...

Will there be a number of countries there who perhaps feel tempted to keep this unorthodox policy going further, or may even step further away from what we consider normal policy? I think adoption of electric cars, the rate of adoption, will really be driven by the rate of improvement...

While renewables like wind and solar power can help meet much of that new demand, the intermittent nature of renewables make it harder to fill the baseload generation gap. Battery storage technologies are not yet mature enough to be deployed today at such scale to back up wind and sol...

The recent spike in energy prices and interest rates shouldn't deter investors from buying most of the equity dips, J.P. Morgan's global markets strategy team says. S&P futures (SPX) (NYSEARCA:SPY) are pointing to a higher open this morning following a turnaround yesterday afternoon. Stra...