URA News and Press, Global X Uranium From 03/17/22

Four Senators introduced a bill Thursday to ban imports of Russian uranium. Recent sanctions have restricted oil, natural gas and coal imports, but left the world's leading producer of enriched uranium free to trade with US utilities. Russia's Rosatom accounts for ~35% of the world's enriched...

Late Wednesday, a headline crossed the wire announcing, "US weighs sanctions on Russian nuclear power supplier Rosatom." Uranium investors took note, and industry heavyweight Cameco (NYSE:CCJ) spiked 6% into the close. Russia isn't a leader in uranium mining, the country accounts for ~5% of g...

Uranium headlines have taken a back seat, as war in Ukraine focused media attention on spiking oil prices, record European natural gas prices, and all-time-high thermal coal prices. Uranium investors have faced similar geopolitical and policy risks over the past two weeks, in addition to shif...

Greg Barnes: The Russia-Ukraine conflict is leading to a potential supply gap emerging in uranium and other commodities. Barnes: We are not looking at Fukushima type situation in Ukraine but investors remain cautious. Barnes: Utilities globally may have to re-shift their fuel supp...

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into its second week, the economic fallout is gradually coming into focus. In our view, it is highly likely that economic growth will slow in the US and globally, but less so in the U.S. We expect market volatility to remain elevated for an...

Risk increased exponentially with Russia’s attack of Ukrainian reactor. Uranium prices now face asymmetric downside risk. Best to wait until situation stabilizes before committing capital to the sector. For further details see: Sprott Physical Uranium Trust: War M...

Venture investor Marc Andreessen, best known for seeding companies like Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Pinterest (NYSE:PINS), weighed in on the nuclear energy debate Thursday:  His comments follow similarly-themed comments from Twitter's (TWTR) founder Jack Dorsey:  W...

Uranium appears to be entering a bull market, along with many other hard assets. Uranium has been out of favor for a while but stands to benefit from expensive energy and continued withdrawal from petroleum importing. URA offers broad exposure to Uranium producers and related equi...

Nuclear power is gradually shedding the stigma attached to it, helped by significant improvements in technology and safety measures. The pro-nuclear energy sentiment is even stronger in developing countries. Asia is a leading hub for new reactor construction. The ETF market and in...

Why nuclear power and natural gas are now considered "green" by the EU. The EU has expanded what's considered 'green investments' but not everyone is happy. Why transitional energy sources may be needed to get us to a carbon-neutral world. For further details see: Can Nu...