Commodities

Drill Or Defend? Trump's Alaska Push Reignites Battle Over Arctic Oil

The Trump administration has reignited one of America’s longest-running environmental battles by moving to reopen part... Read more

China Eyes Castrol: Citic And The Strategic Appeal Of Lubricants

As BP weighs bids for its prized lubricants brand, interest from China’s Citic underscores the geopolitical and indust... Read more

Supply Chain & Logistics News May 26th-29th 2025

This week’s news in supply chain and logistics features several significant developments. A federal trade court has u... Read more

British Biofuel Firms Sound Alarm Over US 'Green Dumping'

UK biofuel producers are warning of a looming crisis as a flood of cheap US ethanol, subsidised on both sides of the Atl... Read more

Powering The Cloud, Powered By China: The Lithium Dependency Behind Global Data Centers

As digital infrastructure scales, its reliance on Chinese lithium becomes a strategic risk The world’s digital infr... Read more

Manhattan Associates Momentum 2025: New Horizons

Last week, I attended the Manhattan Associates Flagship US Conference, Momentum 2025. The event, held in sunny Las Vega... Read more

Billion-Barrel Standoff: Why ExxonMobil Is Blocking Chevron's Play In Guyana

A legal and strategic confrontation is unfolding in one of the world’s most prolific oil discoveries. ExxonMobil is at... Read more

Coal's Cooling Demand: Are Global Energy Markets Moving On?

After a dramatic run-up in 2022, thermal coal prices have now sunk to their lowest levels in four years. The downturn fo... Read more

Disrupting The Lithium Ladder: How Oil Majors Threaten Traditional Miners

Lithium has become the fulcrum of the global energy transition. As electric vehicles (EVs) and grid-scale batteries beco... Read more