Opinion: Florida’s insurance rates have almost doubled over five years, yet insurance companies are still losing money — and the reason is more insidious than hurricanes

Hurricane risk might seem like the obvious problem, but there is a more insidious driver in this financial train wreck. Finance professor Shahid Hamid, who directs the Laboratory for Insurance at Flor...

Toomey tells SEC chief to be ‘on notice’ that Supreme Court may overrule new climate rule

Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee took aim at Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler’s plan to implement a new rule requiring disclosure of climate change risks during a heari...

Elon Musk Has a Solution for the Energy Grid. And He’s Probably Right.

Text size Tesla sells more than just cars. It sells battery storage solutions to utilities around the globe. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Heat, climate change, renewable power, and the grid are al...

U.S. Companies on Pace to Bring Home Record Number of Overseas Jobs

U.S. companies are bringing workforces and supply chains home at a historic pace. American companies are on pace to reshore, or return to the U.S., nearly 350,000 jobs this year, according to a report...

Opinion: Why the Inflation Reduction Act is a very big deal for Americans

NEW YORK—Senate Democrats’ compromise bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, addresses not just inflation but also several key longstanding problems facing our economy and society. There is ...

Ethanol Industry Wants to Bury Its Carbon, but Some Farmers Stand in the Way

GOLDFIELD, Iowa—As climate-change concerns grow, ethanol plants like the one in this town of 630 surrounded by 10-foot-tall corn stalks are eager to join new pipeline networks that aim to carry carbon...

Big Oil Could Pay Up to $25 Billion in New Taxes Under Dems’ Inflation Bill

Text size An oil pumpjack Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil stocks were poised to open lower Monday as investors reacted to the news that the Democrats’ climate change measure could cost oil companies, b...

Climate Bill Stands to Give Green-Energy Investors a Lift

Listen to article (2 minutes) Investors were already returning to clean-tech and renewable-power stocks when the proposed $369 billion Senate energy and climate-spending package jolted the sector to i...

Senate Climate Bill Is a Boon for Fossil Fuels

WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats are moving forward on the costliest and most ambitious effort ever by the U.S. to address climate change—powered in part by benefits for fossil fuels and the broader energy...

Here’s what’s in, and out, of Democrats’ $739 billion inflation-fighting package

WASHINGTON — What started as a $4 trillion effort during President Joe Biden’s first months in office to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems has ended up a much slimmer,...

Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling

Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...

Coal Makes a Comeback as the World Thirsts for Energy

An energy-starved world is turning to coal as natural-gas and oil shortages exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine lead countries back to the dirtiest fossil fuel. From the U.S. to Europe to Chin...

Opinion: Stocks could drop 50%, Nouriel Roubini argues. Things will get much worse before they get better.

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—The global financial and economic outlook for the year ahead has soured rapidly in recent months, with policy makers, investors, and households now asking how much they sh...

Oil prices could go ‘parabolic,’ putting global economy in ‘critical situation,’ says Trafigura chief

“‘We have got a critical situation. I really think we have a problem for the next six months. … [O]nce it gets to these parabolic states, markets can move and they can spike quite a lot.’” — Jeremy We...

The news coming from this giant volcano is even gloomier than the new forecasts from the IMF and World Bank

Investors love looking at esoteric indicators for clues on how the economy is performing, and therefore how stocks, bonds and other assets will trade. How about looking at carbon dioxide emissions? Th...

Utilities Plan Huge Electric Grid Upgrades, Adding to Power Bills

American utilities are planning their biggest spending increases in decades to upgrade aging grids, prepare for electric vehicles and make the transition to renewable energy—moves poised to further bo...

Opinion: Why the United States is reluctant to become the Saudi Arabia of natural gas

OXFORD, England (Project Syndicate)—With images of Russian aggression and war crimes in Ukraine continuing to dominate the media in Europe and around the world, Germany has pledged to cut its imports ...

Larry Fink says globalization is over — Here’s what it means for the markets

BlackRock founder Larry Fink declared that the Russia-Ukraine war is bringing the era of globalization to an end, but investors should keep in mind that the global economy and the financial system can...

It’s the beginning of the end of globalization, say BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Oaktree’s Howard Marks

“The magnitude of Russia’s actions will play out for decades to come and mark a turning point in the world order of geopolitics, macroeconomic trends, and capital markets.” That was Larry Fink, CEO of...

Opinion: Ukraine war is a wake-up call to ditch oil and gas forever

That invasion, and the subsequent U.S. ban on oil imports from Russia, are partly responsible, but they aren’t the only reason. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the impact of t...

Opinion: The Fed needs to target a floor for the 10-year Treasury, in addition to radically raising the fed funds rate

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell faces the toughest task since Chairman Paul Volcker tamed the Great Inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. And a lot of the pressures driving the most virulent ...

Opinion: Sanctioning Russia is a masterstroke that will cement the dollar’s dominant role in world affairs

LONDON (Project Syndicate)— The savage fighting in Ukraine has led many to wonder whether Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supposed strategic brilliance is all that it was chalked up to be. Though P...

Inflation Is Surging. Here Are Some Portfolio Changes to Consider.

Market sentiment changes awfully fast these days. Rising concerns about the impact of interest-rate hikes pushed the S&P 500 down more than 5% in January (with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Inde...

Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.

“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...

How to Invest in Commodities Using Funds

Commodities are rarely exciting—and the price of copper, corn, or even oil doesn’t stir investors the way a tweet from Elon Musk does. Yet commodities sit at the crossroads of three of today’s biggest...