News – Eric Reguly

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Denmark’s Orsted, world’s biggest offshore wind company, was a clean-energy star in the U.S. Donald Trump fixed that

Within hours of entering the White House on Monday, Trump announced ‘We are not going to do the wind thing,’ sending Orsted’s shares into near free fall...

Published on: 25 Jan 2025

Big Mining’s takeover mania seems on break. It won’t last long as copper demand soars

A small number of giants dominate the global industry and soon there will be fewer, as another round of mergers and acquisitions seems almost certain this year...

Published on: 17 Jan 2025

The climate agenda is in rapid retreat as right-wing parties rise everywhere

The era that saw millions of protesters take to the streets to demand action to fight climate change seems over...

Published on: 04 Jan 2025

My business and economic predictions for 2025, from the bust-up of the Trump-Musk bromance to more European car agony

We could be one incremental tariff away from a trade war or one sunken supertanker away from an oil (and environmental) crisis...

Published on: 28 Dec 2024

Ukraine struggles to avoid a winter of cold darkness after Russian attacks on power grid undo repairs

Much of the country is already experiencing sub-zero temperatures...

Published on: 23 Dec 2024

With Europe’s southern economies on the mend, Germany has turned into the problem child

Europe’s southern fringe, once dismissed as the ‘peripheral’ economies, where EU subsidies went to die, are now doing a credible job of underpinning the whole EU show...

Published on: 20 Dec 2024

Halfway through the Vendée solo around-the-world sailing race, three full-throttle leaders have broken from the pack

French sailors have each been swapping lead position with about 17,000 km to go before the finish line at Les Sables-d’Olonne on France’s Atlantic Coast...

Published on: 20 Dec 2024

Corporate concentration is at an all-time high and killing competition. Business-friendly Donald Trump may not care

The market rally suggests Trump’s pro-business approach will win the day. And does anyone think he will not reward the companies, CEOs and private-equity players that helped bankroll his lunge for the White House?...

Published on: 14 Dec 2024

As the Vatican’s Jubilee Year approaches, Rome looks like a construction site and the locals are in an unholy mood

More than 300 monuments and pieces of infrastructure are under repair or construction ahead of the Jubilee, which is expected to bring more than 30 million Christian visitors to Rome in 2025...

Published on: 12 Dec 2024

Thousands of pro-Assad Syrians flee to Lebanon to escape reprisals as new Syrian interim government takes shape

Most of the Syrians who fled are believed to be Alawites – members of the same Islamic sect that included the Assad family...

Published on: 11 Dec 2024

Donald Trump has the upper hand in any trade war with the EU, where Germany and France are in political chaos

Trump is smart enough to know the EU is divided and afflicted with weak leadership - two frailties he will exploit...

Published on: 06 Dec 2024

It was once Europe’s biggest car factory. Today it’s an icon of Europe’s deindustrialization

The fate of Fiat’s Mirafiori plant in Italy is uncertain as the shift to electric vehicles struggles to gain steam...

Published on: 05 Dec 2024

Leaders remain surprisingly close in the savage Vendée round-the-world solo sailboat race

By Tuesday, on the 23rd day of the race, Charlie Dalin was still in the lead while Yoann Richomme had fallen into third spot, behind Sébastien Simon, who was closing in on the leader...

Published on: 03 Dec 2024

Vendée solo sailboat race around the globe enters fourth week with leaders surprisingly close

By Tuesday, on the 23rd day of the race, Charlie Dalin was still in the lead while Yoann Richomme had fallen into third spot, behind Sébastien Simon, who was closing in on the leader...

Published on: 03 Dec 2024

German manufacturers are on the run. The Trump tariffs will accelerate the unfolding economic nightmare

Exports are so built into the German model that there is no easy or quick solution to the economic disease...

Published on: 29 Nov 2024

The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, explained

Could a ceasefire deal with Lebanon lead to one with Gaza?...

By The Decibel Staff, Menaka Raman-Wilms, Eric Reguly

Published on: 29 Nov 2024

For the peace in Lebanon to endure, the Lebanese Army, not Hezbollah, has to be seen as the country’s protector

The ceasefire was inspired by UN Resolution 1701, which was supposed to eliminate militias in the south like Hezbollah, but didn’t quite work...

Published on: 27 Nov 2024

Israeli cabinet approves ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah

Joe Biden hours later said that both Lebanon and Israel had accepted the ceasefire, which is to begin at 4 a.m. local time...

Published on: 26 Nov 2024

Europe’s car battery ambitions go up in smoke. China wins again as Northvolt files for bankruptcy

Northvolt was hobbled by severe production problems, a shortage of funding and skittish customers, a few of whom lost patience with the low output...

Published on: 22 Nov 2024

After half a century and several global efforts, Greece and Turkey’s ‘Cyprus problem’ is no closer to being resolved

When Turkey invaded this island in 1974, it left a political and cultural rupture that has still not healed. Locals look back on all the solutions that have failed, and the ones that might someday succeed...

Published on: 22 Nov 2024

Ukraine bonds rally on bets that Donald Trump can make good on vow to broker deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war

On Monday, the bonds were trading at 50.8 US cents on the dollar, holding onto recent gains in spite of a barrage of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electricity generating station...

Published on: 18 Nov 2024

Spend, baby spend: How Germany could buy itself economic protection from tariff-mad Donald Trump

Germany has ways to Trump-proof itself and can afford to spend, even though the economy is in shallow recession...

Published on: 16 Nov 2024