By Simon Watkins In what turned out to be extraordinary timing, October 3 saw a Western coalition of France’s TotalEnergies and Italy’s Eni, plus Qatar Energy, apply for the second licensing round on oil and gas blocks 8 and 10…

Housing market pessimists have been sounding the alarm for years about a pending crash in the U.S. residential real estate market. Even before the Federal Reserve began hiking interest rates to fight inflation last year, pushing mortgage rates to a 23-year high this month,…

Just days after the fastest drop in the price of oil in over a year (when mere days earlier Brent almost touched $100), the oil market is facing yet another potential kneejerk shock, this time in the opposite reaction. In…

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination to challenge Biden, a Democrat, in the 2024 presidential race. Trump made building border barriers a central tenet of his first campaign for president with the…

Striking auto workers are warning that President Joe Biden’s green agenda, including Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates, will eliminate their jobs entirely. About 25,000 auto workers across the United States are striking against General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis after the United Auto…

Investors ignored deficits when inflation was low. Now they are paying attention and getting worried. The U.S. has long been the lender of last resort to the world. During the emerging-market panics of the 1990s, the global financial crisis of…