One thing becomes absolutely clear when reading the IEA's latest World Energy Outlook; if the world is to have even the remotest chance of making its climate goals, then China and India are going to have to do something about their coal use.
China's urbanisation over the last four decades has been described as the largest human migration in history, with several hundred million people relocating from rural villages to towns, cities and supercities.
China’s alarming economic data for October are sobering for world markets, which had become grown comfortable in recent weeks about avoiding a global downturn next year.
As dollars dry up, global finance is growing increasingly dependent on opaque currency trading to keep cash flowing.
Investors in British money manager Neil Woodford's flagship fund could lose more than 1 billion pounds, four times more than had it reopened in December, according to estimates made by his firm before the shock closure of the fund.
Lebanese student Fatima Jaber's family is struggling to pay off multiple loans with double-digit interest rates.
The burgeoning lithium industry, which produces the powerhouse metal used to make electric vehicle (EV) batteries, has entered its first major downturn, an unwelcome bruising for investors eager to help combat climate change.
Brazilian corn exporters are enjoying a banner year thanks to a big crop and improved logistics, burnishing the country's status as a top global corn supplier and threatening the United States' traditional dominance in the arena.
Hedge funds continued to buy oil derivatives last week, anticipating the oil market has entered an upward price cycle as the global economy steadies and the surge in shale production fades.
A sharp plunge in India's electricity demand in October has been matched by falling coal imports, but weakness in vehicle sales and fuel demand hasn't yet showed up in crude oil imports.
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, a group of major emerging economies known as BRICS, back the idea of developing a common payment system, a Russian official said on Thursday.