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Electric Vehicles have been all over the news in recent months, with implications for investors in existing automotive manufacturers and supply chains. Volvo announced that ‘every Volvo it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor’, with FT…

Investor fury at Financial Conduct Authority over softer rules for Saudi Aramco float: The Times report that ‘the Financial Conduct Authority was accused of bowing to pressure from Downing Street and the London Stock Exchange and watering down the normal…

The International Energy Agency published the 2017 Energy Investment Report on 11 July (IEA Summary, Press Note). Reuters report that ‘Investments in electricity surpassed those in oil and gas for the first time ever in 2016 on a spending splurge on…

1. What’s the real impact of President Trump’s move to pull the U.S. out of the global accords to combat climate change? “To put it simply, very little changes”, say Morgan Stanley. “Economics and improving technologies, not…

Investors & commentators digest end of oil

Commentators and business analysts use the opportunity of the launch of the Tesla…

In Australia the Guardian report that Commonwealth Bank shareholders sue over ‘inadequate’ disclosure of climate change risks (8 Aug). ‘The case will be the first anywhere in the world to test in court how companies are…