Blog Layout

Trading arm of Gazprom risks rattling energy markets

  Bloomberg The trading arm of Russia’s gas giant Gazprom PJSC is under increasing pressure as clients and peers flee in response to the war in Ukraine, posing a risk for energy markets from the UK to Germany and Singapore. Gazprom Marketing & Trading is facing liquidity problems as banks delay its transactions and peers refuse to deal with it, ...

Read More »

When fighting Putin comes before climate change

On the day Russia launched its all-out attack on Ukraine, Svitlana Krakovska was holed up in her home city of Kyiv, working feverishly to finish a report. As leader of the Ukrainian delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), she and scientists around the world were dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s of their sixth assessment of ...

Read More »

Who leads India’s EV battery race?

The dark horse of India’s battery race is pulling away from the pack, but can it beat the bookies’ favourite? Ola Electric Mobility Pvt, a Bengaluru-based startup, will get state support to manufacture EV batteries that can store a total of 20 gigawatt-hours of power, the government said. Reliance Industries Ltd, the country’s largest conglomerate, will get subsidies for five ...

Read More »

Now is the right time for US-EU trade deal

  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reminded the US and Europe that their alliance matters. Their united response to President Vladimir Putin’s assault on the international order should alert them to something else — that resilience depends on economic and financial cooperation and not just on formal security commitments. In that light, reviving stalled talks on a free-trade agreement is ...

Read More »

Joe Biden should tax the rich to shrink deficit

  To help fight inflation, Joe Biden ought to take a page out of his former boss’ book: He should make a strong pitch for taxing the rich to reduce the federal budget deficit. From the day his party suffered a massive midterm “shellacking” straight through his successful re-election campaign, Barack Obama branded the Democrats as the party of deficit ...

Read More »

Biden seeks to temper remark on Putin as US allies object

Bloomberg President Joe Biden sought to clarify his call for the removal of Vladimir Putin, saying he wasn’t seeking regime change after European allies raised concern and critics said he was further inflaming tension with Russia. French President Emmanuel Macron and the UK government distanced themselves from Biden’s stunning comment, which capped a speech in Warsaw to rally support for ...

Read More »

Russian foreign minister to visit India this week

Bloomberg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit New Delhi this week, The Hindu newspaper reported, citing unnamed officials. The visit would the highest-level visit from Moscow since Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine. Indian and Russian officials are expected to discuss the sale of Russian crude oil to India and also work out a rupee-ruble denominated payment method for oil ...

Read More »

New Zimbabwean oppn party claims by-election spoils

  Bloomberg A newly formed Zimbabwean opposition party won the bulk of seats in the country’s first vote held since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, signalling it will be a force to be reckoned with in next year’s general elections. The Citizens Coalition for Change won 19 of 28 parliamentary seats and 75 of the 120 council seats. Led ...

Read More »

North Korea signals nuclear test, exploiting US-Russia rift

  Bloomberg North Korea looks set to detonate its first nuclear bomb in more than four years, as the US’s sanctions, disputes with Russia and China make further United Nations penalties against the country unlikely. Workers have been observed digging a new passageway at the Punggye-ri site where North Korea conducted all six of its previous nuclear tests, South Korean ...

Read More »

Azerbaijan-Armenia tensions surge again

  Bloomberg While Russia is embroiled in its invasion of Ukraine, surging tensions elsewhere in the Kremlin’s backyard are threatening to reignite conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The two Caucasus nations fought a 44-day war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh that killed thousands in late 2020 until Russian President Vladimir Putin brokered a ceasefire deal. That agreement involved Russia ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend