December 19 - Major Dutch energy suppliers are raising prices for next year, with Eneco, Vattenfall and EnNatuurlijk nearly doubling heating prices. Eneco even went as high as €90 per gigajoule (GJ), the maximum price set by the Dutch Consumer a…
Tantalum carbide (TaC) is an extremely hard (Mohs hardness 9-10) refractory ceramic material commercially used in cutting tool tips. It is a heavy brown powder, usually processed by sintering, and is an important cermet material.…
Gazprom recently said it had completely suspended gas supplies to Bulgarian Gas company and Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) because it was not being paid in rubles. Russia said it would resume gas supplies after it agreed to pay for them in ruble…
Analysts at JPMorgan recommended selling or "underweight" emerging market local currency sovereign debt because of the global impact of the Ukraine-Russia crisis.JPMorgan estimated that fixed-income assets in emerging markets have lost 6-9 percent of…
Oil futures tumbled more than $5 a barrel on news that the Biden administration is considering releasing about 1 million barrels a day from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) for several months to cool surging crude prices.Brent crude futures…
French scientists have confirmed for the first time through genome sequencing that the "deltacron" variant of the new coronavirus that has previously attracted a lot of attention does exist, which combines the mutations in the new coronavirus delta v…