Woodside LNG Notified By Unions A Strike Is Imminent
On Sunday, unions at Woodside Energy Group’s North West Shelf offshore gas platforms announced they planned to begin a strike as soon as September 2nd, in a move which could…
China’s Laoshan Mineral Water Company Looks To Kyrgyzstan Glaciers As A Supply For Europe
Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Akylbek Zhaparov said during a visit to China this week that his nation is prepared to begin exporting drinking water made from its glaciers to Beijing. The…
Corporate Bankruptcies In The EU Surge To Highest Since 2015
According data released this week by the EU statistics agency Eurostat, in the second quarter of 2023, the EU saw the highest number of bankruptcy declarations in eight years. The…
Energy Costs Skyrocket In The Southern US
New government data being cited in a report by OilPrice shows that as the southern US has endured record-breaking temperatures, driving up electricity consumption by households, energy bills have been…
Chinese Imports Of Russian Gas Surging
According to new data released by the Chinese General Administration of Customs. between January and July China increased its purchases of both Russian pipeline gas, and Russian liquified natural gas…
Oil Producers Running Fewest Rigs Since Ukraine Invasion
Oil producers have the fewest drilling rigs in active service right now, that they have had running since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, indicating they do not see…
US Workers Fear Tech Advances Will Take Their Jobs
A Bloomberg report this week cited a Harris Poll survey conducted for the American Staffing Association (ASA) which found that increasing numbers of American workers fear that developing technologies will…
Spanish Food Prices Soar
In July, Spanish food prices soared by 30.8% compared to the same period in 2019, prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, according to a report in El Mundo on Friday, which…
French Consumers Forced To Cut Back On Hygiene And Beauty Products Due To Inflation
French broadcaster BFMTV reported this week that a new survey by NielsenIQ has found that roughly 45% of French citizens have had to reduce their spending on beauty products this…
Russians Prefer To Store Savings in Yuan, Over The Dollar
According to a new survey by the Public Opinion Foundation, the most popular foreign currency for savings among Russians is now the Chinese yuan. The survey asked participants to imagine…
