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Trump and Saudi’s crown prince deserve each other

The impetuous crown prince and Donald Trump and his world of make-believe are all smiles as they make deals. But trouble is brewing.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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Donald Trump’s energy policy is a key plank of his economic strategy

Trump and the oil cartel are on a collision course

There is a rising threat to a key part of Trump’s economic strategy.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump’s tariffs have depressed the price of oil.

Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for

The US president said “drill, baby, drill” but his tariffs tanked the commodity’s price and they could reduce, not increase, production.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump’s tariffs are not having the effects he was after.

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We’re about to find out

The ways markets are reacting to Trump’s tariffs paint a very threatening picture of the outlook for the US and the world.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Excavators mining rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil in February 2025.

‘Never seen anything like it’: How Trump plans to make Ukraine a ‘province’ of US industry

Europe and Britain will have to foot the bill for rebuilding what remains of the besieged nation, while the US scoops up its chief means of economic recovery.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Will Donald Trump end up being the man who blew America’s energy independence?

Trump’s energy dream is set to blow up in his face

A conference in Houston last week gave us a revealing window into the mental world of Trumpism.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Drill, baby, drill: US President Donald Trump’s policies are weighing on the oil price.

More than ‘a little disturbance’: Trump and OPEC are sinking the oil price

This week, OPEC+ did what Donald Trump has demanded and announced it would start increasing production, pushing oil prices down to three-year lows. Trump may get more than he bargained for.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
With Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin readying to strike a deal, the sanctions regime is crumbling.

Brace for the return of Russian commodities? They never really left

The West’s sanctions around oil exports and other commodities from the Putin regime are crumbling — in reality, if not in law yet. And the stakes are huge.

  • Javier Blas
US President Donald Trump.

When it comes to energy, Donald Trump is China’s useful idiot

Trump’s plans to “drill, baby, drill” at the expense of clean energy is a blessing for China. For at least the next four years, the US is withdrawing from the greatest economic battle of our time.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
US President Donald Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had told him he was ready to make a deal to end the war.

Trump tells the world to invest in US or pay the price

Donald Trump has sent a clear message to “every business in the world” as he addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos.

  • Michael Koziol

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