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Electrification jumps up corporate agenda after energy crisis, survey finds ft.trib.al/1LUpiA1

Electrification jumps up corporate agenda after energy crisis, survey finds

Security and cost concerns elevate business push for overhaul of power systems

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Investment firms join Donald Trump’s $100bn race for Venezuelan oil ft.trib.al/QlbZ08C

Investment firms join Donald Trump’s $100bn race for Venezuelan oil

Lionheart Capital and Keo Energy create Nasdaq-listed company to pursue assets in Latin American nation.

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CEO of collapsed Prax ordered fake invoices, administrators allege ft.trib.al/kfVIdMY

CEO of collapsed Prax ordered fake invoices, administrators allege

Winston Soosaipillai accused of creating a ‘web of deceit’ before energy group collapsed

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EU to extend carbon border levy on metal products to prevent evasion ft.trib.al/AxjK49H

EU to extend carbon border levy on metal products to prevent evasion

List expanded to almost 400 imported items with significant amount of steel or aluminium

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Oil sinks to three-month low after Trump hints at Iran war deal ft.trib.al/RCHr1Ln

Asian stocks rise after Trump hints at Iran war deal

Chipmaker-heavy indices gain ahead of blockbuster SpaceX listing

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Trading firm DRW suffered sharp loss on power market as prices gyrated ft.trib.al/9BYq9rR

Trading firm DRW suffered sharp loss on power market as prices gyrated

Group took $176mn hit and parted ways with its head electricity and gas trader as winter volatility battered positions

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Trump calls off Iran strikes planned for Thursday night ft.trib.al/kur4KCr

Donald Trump calls off Iran strikes planned for Thursday night

US president claims progress in negotiations for new deal with Tehran

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The ‘new joule order’ is here. The west is last to realise ft.trib.al/iPlb5gX

The ‘new joule order’ is here. The west is last to realise

Electrification is the purchase of optionality and China bought more of it than any nation in history

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Trump vows to take ‘total control’ of Iran’s oil and gas markets ft.trib.al/HUbc2vg

Trump vows to take ‘total control’ of Iran’s oil and gas markets

US president says American forces will also seize control of key export hub Kharg Island

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Gold sinks to 6-month low as speculative investors exit ft.trib.al/qBuTXen

Gold sinks to 6-month low as speculative investors exit

Bullion set for worst quarter in almost a decade as Iran war, expectations of US rate rises and SpaceX IPO weigh on price

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Artificial chocolate will show what really shapes global trade ft.trib.al/lnFhzF1

Artificial chocolate will show what really shapes global trade

Lab-grown cocoa is the latest synthetic commodity to challenge a natural product

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Why the much-feared crunch in oil markets has yet to arrive ft.trib.al/SSMB0oL

Why the much-feared crunch in oil markets has yet to arrive

Still-ample stocks and some more reactive producers and consumers look to have left the world better equipped to cope with disruption

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Oil tankers increase ‘dark’ transits through Strait of Hormuz ft.trib.al/XFAfDfW

Oil tankers increase ‘dark’ transits through Strait of Hormuz

Risky trips under US air cover help to cushion crude prices below $100 a barrel

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How tin went from baked beans to AI gravy train ft.trib.al/6zaPRJ5

How tin went from baked beans to AI gravy train

Higher prices are prompting some miners to take up their shovels

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Gold and bitcoin: the assets the rally forgot ft.trib.al/xYrSiaB

Gold and bitcoin: the assets the rally forgot

Gold and ‘digital gold’ both feel like yesterday’s Fomo trades

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DR Congo’s curbs on cobalt spark squeeze in vital battery element ft.trib.al/44Bh3CY

DR Congo’s curbs on cobalt spark squeeze in vital battery element

A shortage of the raw material has sent Chinese smelters scrambling to find alternatives

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Oil slides as US official says Hormuz transits are ‘meaningfully’ climbing ft.trib.al/hsHx7dT

Oil slides as US official says Hormuz transits are ‘meaningfully’ climbing

Energy secretary Chris Wright cautions that flows through the strait will take months to fully recover

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EU considers suspending rise in Russian oil price cap ft.trib.al/HlNQ3fH

EU considers suspending rise in Russian oil price cap

Limit on Russian crude was set to increase from $44 a barrel to $70 following supply disruption due to Middle East war

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How Poland’s Orlen kept supplies flowing during the Middle East war ft.trib.al/SXbtwmF

How Poland’s Orlen kept supplies flowing during the Middle East war

Group’s head oil trader said the company learned lessons from the 2022 shock

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Oil market defies predictions of summer supply crunch ft.trib.al/WOjmu3A

Oil market defies predictions of summer supply crunch

Crude prices stay below $100 a barrel as China’s import cuts help eke out global stockpiles

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