Gold prices have seen aggressive growth in recent years, reaching a historic high in January before stabilizing. Many market veterans, like mining legend Pierre Lassonde, view this as a temporary…
SpaceX's historic June 12, 2026 IPO, priced at $135/share, raised $75 billion, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion. The stock opened at $150 (+11.1%), hit $176.52 intraday, and closed between…
Executive Summary
High retail investor participation in IPOs at stretched valuations generates negative convexity in the broader equity market: initial positive gamma from FOMO-driven buying (short-term momentum) reverses into…
The Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) — a 4,128 km project linking Nigerian gas fields (Warri region) through Niger to Algeria’s Hassi R’Mel hub, with onward connection to European markets via…
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Satellite signatures combined with AIS vessel tracking and OSINT currently indicate elevated refinery activity in US/Europe amid global disruptions, but severe anomalies in Middle East tanker flows…
Executive Summary
The posited Liquidity Trap manifests as a regime where elevated nominal asset prices (gold near recent highs, equities at stretched valuations) coincide with forced liquidations driven by margin…
1. Carbon Pricing Framework: Explicit (EU ETS) vs. Implicit/Internal Shadow Pricing
TotalEnergies employs an internal carbon price (ICP)1 or shadow price in its project evaluations and asset impairment testing. Currently,…