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During a meeting with President Donald Trump in China on Thursday, President Xi Jinping warned of the possibility of war over Taiwan.  According to a recounting of the meeting between the two leaders, Xi said that if the Taiwan issue is handled correctly, then the relationship between the US and China can be stable. He […]

America Bets $50 Billion On Coal And Gas Power, More Than China, As Electricity Demand Soars By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com US companies are set to spend some $50 billion on power generation from coal and natural gas this year, the International Energy Agency has said, as quoted by the Financial Times. This would be the first time in decades that US spending on coal and gas generation would be higher than what China is investing in the two fuels, with the difference at $3 billion. The surge in spending will come mostly...

DOJ, CTFC Investigating $2.6 Billion In Suspicious Iran War Oil Trades U.S. authorities are investigating more than $2.6 billion in oil futures shorts that landed within minutes of major announcements tied to the 2026 U.S.-Iran conflict. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has joined the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a widening inquiry into potential misuse of material non-public information in one of the most liquid and geopolitically sensitive commodity markets on earth, ABC News reports. The trades in question involved bets that oil prices would fall shortly before major U.S. or Iranian...