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- Global economy
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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- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
- Trade wars
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
- Analysis
- Ukraine
‘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
- Opinion
- World markets
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
- Opinion
- Opinion
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
- Opinion
- Commodities
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
- Opinion
- Renewables
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
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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