Energy Stories in the News May 30

Setting Record: Russia Outperforms Saudi Arabia in Chinese Oil Market
Iraq joins Mideast rivals raising oil exports ahead of OPEC meeting
China adds pipelines, depots at "teapot" oil hub to ease congestion
Why India could be the oil market's next big driver of consumption
Shell becomes a player in the recovery of oil
U.S. natgas speculators switch from net long to net short -CFTC
Mitsui to Supply Colombia Its First Liquefied Natural Gas Cargo
TASS: Russia offers no gas discount to Belarus
Seaborne thermal coal trade to fall 30 mil mt in 2016, says analyst
UPDATE 2-Indonesia says coal output will fall next year as smaller miners struggle
Japan, China face mounting risks of stranded coal investments
Cambodia and Thailand edging closer to nuclear power
China's Nuclear Opportunities in Iran
US offshore wind grants of USD 80m go to alternate projects
China solar cell capacity expansion raises overesupply concern
Dubai receives solar power bid cheaper than coal
Modi takes on sugar lobby, says will not hesitate to boost Ethanol

Precious Metals Stories in the News May 30

May 30 SSSSS This past week in gold  Jack Chan 321gold   
May 30 Shine fades on Scotiabank's gold business as banks land in court...  FP   
May 30 Saudi banking system under pressure  WolfStreet   
May 30 Gold On Strike, Econ Spike, Fed To Hike?  Demeadville   
size=-1 face=verdana> May 30 SKI #170 Gold Stock Update Jeff Kern 321gold
-----> 321gold SPONSORS LIST in alphabetical order 321gold
May 30 The Secret of Billions  JAltucher Medium   
May 30 Manufacturing Recession Goes Global as Demand Withers  WolfStreet   
May 30 These Six Facts Expose the American Military's Coming Collapse  sputnik   
May 30 This is the ultimate engagement ring for American brides  MW   

Headlines in the News May 25, 2016

France Hit By Gas Shortages, Rationing After Refinery Workers Go On Strike
The case of the $629 Band-Aid â€" and what it reveals about American health care
ETF Gold Holdings Rise At The Fastest Pace Since 2009 As Central Banker Credibility Plunges
More than one-in-five working age Millennials live at home: California has two of the top four metro areas with Millennials living at home
Dark Waters
Alone, but not Alone
After imprisoning Oregon ranchers, Obama to sign an executive order legalizing BLM tyranny to take over any land it wants
Baby boomers to blame for lost generation of gardeners
Finally Getting Serious about Identifying Islamists?
There’s No Place To Hide From Surveillance Technology In 2016
Obama banishes Vietnam war era with lifting of arms ban
Boeing plans hundreds of layoffs
Close to 1,000 laid off from Halliburton Duncan plant
Shell is cutting another 2,200 jobs
Toyota Financial to provide leasing options for Uber drivers
Ex-McDonald’s CEO says raising the minimum wage will help robots take jobs
Fed: Nearly half in U.S. would have trouble with emergency $400 expense
DoubleLine's Gundlach: US Stock Market Is 'Dead Money'
Bill Gross: U.S. Needs to 'Re-Normalize' Interest Rates
Microsoft retreats from phone business with more job cuts
Manufacturing recession goes global
Fed survey lays bare U.S. economic divide
TreeHouse Foods plans to close two production plants - 720 jobs eliminated
Helen Chaitman-Big Bank Customers Destroyed in Next Economic Meltdown
Data Breaches Up 22% to Date in 2016
Tiffany’s Sparkle Dims as Q1 Sales Drop 7%
Dear Fed Policymakers: Please Heed Venezuela for Lesson in Hyperinflation
Biggest banks in the world list: China dominates, US fades
More Syrian Refugees To US: Costs And Consequences
Walmart Ending Price Matching Of Local Competitors’ Ads At 500 Stores
Five arrested in $36.5 million IRS impersonation scam
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The American People Have Been Conquered: “Change Through Peaceful Means No Longer Possible”
“Slacking Off”: Young Adults Living In Parents’ Basement Most Common For First Time Ever
All Of Our Children Will Be Microchipped in the Future: “Testing Is Being Done Right Now”

Energy Stories in the News May 25

Oil prices push closer to $50, U.S. crude hits highest in 7 months
Iraq Reaches 4.5M Bpd Oil Production, As Cracks Start to Show
OPEC's ability to ease oil supply shock is fading – Report
Chinese Company Searching for Billion-Dollar Oil Deals in Texas
Exxon, Chevron face investor scrutiny over climate change restrictions
Slump in LNG prices delays production at Mozambique gas field
Natural gas prices to stay low, US renewables to grow: survey
Trans Adriatic Pipeline to cut Europe's reliance on Russia for natural gas
Chinese April thermal coal imports down 18.8% on-year to 7.11 million mt
Greens urge halt to G7 nations' funding for overseas coal
US thermal coal market to drop to 500 million-550 million st/year: CEO
Korea, China to discuss nuclear energy partnership
Indian steps address key concerns of our nuclear industry: US Govt
Nuclear threats in US worse than previously known — study
India to use International Solar Alliance to push solar water pumps
Nanomaterials could double efficiency of solar cells by converting waste heat into usable energy
5 Floating Solar Farms Helping Power the World
World's 1st Public Transport System To Run On Solar
Brazil ethanol sector sees rebound ahead
Electric-car energy density to approach gasoline by 2045: report

Precious Metals Stories in the News May 25

class="highlight"> May 25 Nobody Knows Anything  Steve Saville TSI   
May 25 We're in the Eye of a Global Financial Hurricane  OfTwoMinds   
May 25 Tocqueville Gold Strategy Investor Letter Q1 2016  Tocqueville   
class="highlight"> May 25 Eagle Plains [web] ... Welcome back  EPL   
May 25 The Bank of England is to blame for the BHS pension crisis  BI   
May 25 Despite Rally, Hype, and NIRP, Bear Markets Hound the Globe  WolfStreet   
May 25 Do You Think Palestine Has the Right to Exist?  AN   
May 25 The largest underground lake in Europe  DW   

Headlines in the News May 11, 2016

A New Digital Cash System Was Just Unveiled At A Secret Meeting For Bankers In New York
What OPEC Has To Fear From The New Saudi Oil Minister
Credit Suisse Posts Loss as CEO Signals Cost-Cuts Progress
Record-Breaking Container Ship Ends Brief U.S. Service
The Invisible Front
The Way
The River
The War Journal of Major Damon “Rocky” Gause
The Porcupine Option: What Christian conservatives can learn from the Free State Project
Take the Fifth — And Face Life Imprisonment Without a Trial
Prepping for Doomsday: Bunkers, Panic Rooms, and Going Off the Grid
19 Unexpected Life Hacks Using String
building a Mosquito trap from old tires?
Global Monetary Elites Scream, “Buy Gold”
Jamie Dimon gets into war of words with banker he called a 'jerk' on CNBC
Too Big to Fail Still Too Big a Problem, Fed President Kashkari's Quest for Solutions Continues
Schiff: Gold is just getting started
3 Ways to Cut USPS Losses: Chop People, Offices and Delivery Days
T. Boone Pickens gets behind Trump
Xerox Reverses Plans to Lay Off Workers at Colorado Springs Call Center
$1,914,651,000,000: FY2016 Taxes Set Record Through April; $12,679 Per Worker; Feds Still Run Deficit of $354,592,000,000
Painful Process Coming for America Not Going to Be Pretty
America's middle class is shrinking almost everywhere
Payday Loan, Check Cashing Operation Trained Employees To “Never Tell Customer The Fee”
A Central Banker Officially Loses It: "We Are Magic People"
Is Donald Trump Behind This Year's Rally in Gold? Maybe...
The Frogs Are Boiling Againâ€"â€"Why Wall Street Stays In The Pot
Italian Judge Rules It’s Okay For The Hungry To Steal Food
Singer Says Gold Rally Just Beginning as Goldman Sees Losses
Puerto Rico Defaults on Debt, Worse Yet To Come
Report: Oil, Gas Job Cuts Top 350,000 Worldwide
Should Europe follow Germany’s export-led economic model?
Chipotle spends $1 billion on stock buybacks as recovery lags
Macy’s first-quarter sales slump wasn’t just a tourism problem
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Raw Venezuela: Looter Burned Alive, While “Streets Filled With People Killing Animals For Food”
Consolidated Power, The End of Independent Business: “What This Reset Means”
Overpopulation? Economic Ripple Effect From Fewer Babies: “Market Is Not Going to Grow”
Putin is Less of a Communist than Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton

Energy Stories in the News May 11

Iranian oil may be headed to Europe soon
Oil price to be dragged down by more Saudi pumping
Shell 'halts' production over pipeline bombings
Kenya may have a lot more oil than it previously thought
Iran ends free shipping of oil to India: Oil minister
Bulk of Canada's Oil-Sands Plants Seen Starting in Days to Weeks
French minister eyes shale import ban as US LNG exports build
Azerbaijan may double gas purchases from Gazprom — official
Long-term gas contracts still needed in Europe, but with flexibility: Uniper CEO
Petronas launches hull of new floating LNG facility
Plans Move Forward for U.S. LNG - for Next Decade
The Plan To Revive Big Coal's Fortunes Isn't Panning Out
First Korea, now Japan: Colombian coal exports to Asia spread
Coal made its best case against climate change, and lost
Britain gets no power from coal for 'first time on record'
Africa going nuclear?
Australia Should Cash In On A Single Global Nuclear Repository
Why China's nuclear exports may struggle to find a market
Competition hits EDF sales, nuclear production target cut
SA to Add 7,000 MW of Renewable Power to Grid by Mid-2016
Global Utility Scale Wind Turbine Market Poised to $130 billion by 2016
Is solar power really cheaper than wind in Australia?
Oil-rich Alaska has surprising solar power potential
Export progress for corn, ethanol and distillers' grains

Precious Metals Stories in the News May 11

May 11 Metals Complex Pushes Us To The Limit  Avi Gilburt 321gold   
May 11 We Need a Complete System Overhaul...  OfTwoMinds   
May 11 The Protein Ladder  AOTH   
May 11 Saudi Arabia's Oil-Bust Cash-Flow Debacle Begins to Bite  WolfStreet   
May 11 Remember how we got out of Vietnam  FFF   
May 11 The 'Underground Astronauts' in search of new human species  CNN   

Headlines in the News May 05, 2016

China Is Laying The Foundation For The Next World Gold Standard System
Fed's Williams: 2 or 3 rate hikes reasonable this year, but dependent on data
Gas Prices Near $3 in California
The Historic Dow Jones-Silver Ratio Points To $300 Silver
Is a Cash Ban and Carry Tax Coming to the US?
Vicente Fox on why he apologized to Donald Trump
Rail Traffic Depression: 292 Union Pacific Engines Are Sitting In The Arizona Desert Doing Nothing
Fed Williams, asked about Trump’s Fed comments, calls Yellen ‘great leader’
Zimbabwe will print $200 million worth of its own version of US dollars
Housing market on the verge of another crisis?
Gold To Trade Like It's 1999? Oppenheimer Says History is Repeating Itself
Wal-Mart Brings Back Greeters at the Store Door
Companies are playing it safe, and it’s killing the economy
A Big Bank Suggests Wealth Taxation
Swiss citizens may soon be guaranteed monthly income
Job cuts top 65,000 in April
Government Spent Billions Turning 45% Of American Corn Into Ethanol
Blackstone CEO: China wants the American Dream
Insurers Planning big Obamacare Price Hikes Next Year
The surprising force behind gold’s rally
Economic fallout of Fort McMurray wildfire could be big, if history is any guide
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Energy Stories in the News May 05

China firm wins deal to build Cambodia's first oil refinery -Xinhua
Russian Ruble Gains With Oil as Data Shows Global Glut Abating
IMF warns this oil-rich Nordic country of growth risks
Saudis Said to Boost Oil Pricing for Asia by Most in 14 Months
Greece's Energean ups oil production
Iran viewing different options for gas exports to Europe
Shell sees slower roll-out of floating LNG
Egypt to receive first LNG shipment from Rosneft in May
Europe's ARA coal stocks up 1.3% week on week to 3.4 million mt
US met, thermal coal exports turn higher in March from prior month: US Census
India maintains Safety of Nuclear Power Plants at all level
China Will Build Its First Maritime Nuclear Power Platform
India, Russia discussing cost of Kudankulam Units 5,6
Attracting investors to new nuclear projects in the UK
Chinese Firm to Build Solar Power Plants in Iran
Azure Power starts solar projects of 88 MW across 3 states
Challenges to UAE solar power remain, but it still makes sense
Siemens new onshore wind turbine ready for German market
Should taxpayers keep subsidizing the ethanol industry?
Soaring U.S. Gasoline Demand Isn't Enough to Stop Supply Glut

Precious Metals Stories in the News May 05

May 05 Derivatives Crisis Of Banks…Worldwide  SP   
May 05 US Dollar Update  Silver Analyst 321gold   
May 05 What Comes Next——Krugman's Fiscal Equivalent Of War  DSCC   
May 05 Puerto Rico Default Bruises Dollar, Boosts Gold  TDB   
May 05 For Most Israelis, Palestinian Lives Don't Matter  LobeLog   
May 05 Captain Cook's Endeavour found in the U.S. 230 years after she was last seen at sea