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Renewables and Nuclear

6 Reports
Renewables and NuclearMay 2026
Meeting the AI Power Surge: Why NextEra Is Buying Dominion and a New Era of Utility Scale

The proposed NextEra-Dominion merger is a large utility deal, a response to a new phase in American electricity demand.

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Renewables and NuclearJune 2026
Can Virtual Power Plants Support the AI Boom? Assessing VPPs Against Explosive Data Center Electricity Demand

The United States power system is experiencing a demand shock driven by Artificial Intelligence and the data centers AI relies on.

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Renewables and NuclearMay 2026
Australia’s AI Boom and the Case for a Beneficiary-Pays Energy Model

In meetings from May 8-9, 2026, all Australian state and federal energy ministers, except the representative from Queensland, agreed that new data centers should fully offset their electricity demand through investments in new renewable generation and energy storage.

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Renewables and NuclearApril 2026
European Wind Power: Energy Security, Industrial Sovereignty and Resilience Beyond Decarbonisation

European wind power has started looking less like a narrow clean energy story and more like a strategic response to a volatile energy market.

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Renewables and NuclearIssue 3
Wind Energy in a Rising-Demand Grid: Economics, Reliability, and Security Tradeoffs

On May 4, 2026, the Trump administration halted 165 onshore wind farms across the United States, citing radar interference and military flight-path concerns as national security risks.

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Renewables and NuclearMay 2026
Europe’s Green Transition and Strategic Dependence on China

Europe’s transition to renewable energy is often framed as a path towards sustainability and energy independence, particularly as the continent hopes to decrease its reliance on Russian gas.

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Oil and Gas

8 Reports
Oil and GasJuly 2026
Why the Oil market is mispricing risk in Hormuz

The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz has created a sharp shift in oil market sentiment.

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Oil and GasMay 2026
The Dangote Effect: How One Refinery Is Reshaping African Energy

The Dangote refinery is one of Africa’s largest refining assets, with a nameplate capacity of 650,000 bpd.

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Oil and GasMay 2026
Powerless in the Caribbean: Cuba’s Energy Collapse and the Fight for Economic Survival

Cuba’s current energy crisis shows what happens when a country relies on a state controlled system that cannot adapt to rapid market shocks and geopolitical disruptions.

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Oil and GasMay 2026
TotalEnergies: Cash Returns in a Volatile Energy Market

Total Energies presents a constructive stock-pitch opportunity because it combines near-term exposure to elevated energy prices with a clear shareholder-return framework.

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Oil and GasMay 2026
Hormuz Under Fire: Iran’s Strike on UAE Oil Infrastructure and the New Gulf Risk Premium

Iran has increased its attacks on the UAE, causing oil prices to jump 6%. The escalation will most likely cause higher oil prices for the coming weeks.

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Oil and GasMay 2026
UAE’s OPEC Exit: A Quota Dispute Became a Structural Shock

In this Friday’s report we analyse the UAE’s OPEC exit, determining their departure as a structural shift rather than an immediate supply shock.

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Oil and GasApril 2026
Chevron's Venezuela Asset Swap: Strategic Repositioning Towards Heavy Oil

A look at why Chevron is concentrating more of its Venezuela exposure around heavy crude, and why the upside from that shift still sits under sanctions, infrastructure, and sovereign risk.

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Oil and GasApril 2026
Phillips 66: Oil Price Spike Drives Nearly $1 Billion in Q1 Losses

A look at how the Iran conflict and the resulting surge in crude prices pushed Phillips 66 into nearly $900 million in preliminary first-quarter mark-to-market losses.

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Agriculture

6 Reports
AgricultureJune 2026
An Outlook for a Volatile Second Half for El Niño 2026

El Niño is likely to create a split in the second half of 2026 between tropical crops facing the highest upside price risk, grains cushioned by stronger inventories.

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AgricultureMay 2026
Ivory Coast’s Rise in Expected Cocoa Output for 2025/26

Since the end of the 1970s, Ivory Coast has been the largest cocoa producer in the world, producing roughly 40% of the world's entire cocoa supply, or around 2 million tons per year.

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AgricultureMay 2026
Brazil to Capitalize on India’s Sugar Export Ban

As of May 2026, India announced a new, immediate ban on sugar exports until September 30, 2026.

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AgricultureIssue 3
Uncorked: Falling Demand, Climate Disruption, and a Market With No Near-Term Exit

In 2026, the French government offered vineyard growers €4,000 per hectare of vineyards removed, with the total plan aiming to uproot 28,000 hectares.

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AgricultureMay 2026
US Cattle Contraction and the Slow Transition Toward Supply Recovery

U.S. cattle inventories have fallen to 86.2 million head, the lowest in 75 years, triggering record futures prices and a supply crisis with no near-term solution.

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AgricultureApril 2026
Indonesia's B50 Biodiesel Push and the Coming Global Edible Oil Supply Shock

A look at how Indonesia's accelerated biodiesel mandate could tighten palm oil exports, spill into substitute edible oils, and lift food costs across the broader global market.

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Metals and Mining

6 Reports
Metals and MiningJuly 2026
How Nigeria Became China's Newest Refining Outpost

On June 28, at the African Natural Resources and Energy Investment Summit in Abuja, Nigeria's Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, unveiled what the government called a “world-class” polymetallic province in Kaduna State.

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Metals and MiningMay 2026
An Overview on Western Up-Stream Critical Minerals Diversification

At last month’s FT Commodities Summit in Lausanne, traders pointed to metal geopolitics in the DRC, Kazakhstan, and Latin America as one of the supply constraints holding back the energy transition.

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Metals and MiningIssue 4
How the EU is Falling Behind the Allied Critical Minerals Bloc on Antimony

Europe has a critical-minerals strategy, but it lacks a financing strategy.

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Metals and MiningIssue 3
How Australia is Positioning Itself as an Alternative to China’s Critical Mineral Earth Dominance

Australia is using allied capital to build a domestic mining-to-processing supply chain that serves Japanese manufacturing, U.S. defense procurement, and its own industrial ambitions.

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Metals and MiningMay 2026
Mineral Independence and The Refinery That Wasn’t

On April 28, the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the Appalachian region holds an estimated 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium.

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Metals and MiningApril 2026
Venezuela's 131-Article Mining Law That Was Built in Washington

A look at Venezuela's new mining law and the parallel U.S. sanctions architecture that determines who can actually invest, transact, and profit under the new regime.

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Logistics

5 Reports
LogisticsJune 2026
An Analysis of the North Sea Shipping Route

Global warming, despite being an immensely pressing challenge the world faces, is not without its economic benefits.

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LogisticsApril 2026
Grid Infrastructure is the Bottleneck for Wind Energy

As wind becomes a necessity in Europe, the main bottleneck is that generation does not guarantee delivery.

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LogisticsIssue 3
Between Conflict and Capacity: Assessing the Middle Corridor

The movement of goods between East Asia, particularly China, and Europe has been surging in recent years.

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LogisticsMay 2026
Miniature delivery robots have stormed Chicago and other large U.S urban areas. To what end?

Since 2024, residents of downtown Chicago have started noticing small cubic robots resembling medium-sized boxes with four wheels.

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LogisticsApril 2026
How AI Is Reshaping Freight and Trucking

A look at how AI is changing billing, routing, labor dynamics, and competitive structure across freight and trucking, while favoring the largest carriers with the deepest data infrastructure.

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