By: Jessica Morris

I write about energy and industrials for City A.M. I'm particularly interested in geopolitics, energy policy and, of course, the ever lively oil markets.

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COP21 Paris climate summit: UN climate talks approve draft text for a deal

December 5, 2015

Delegates at a UN climate conference in Paris today cleared a key hurdle to the formation of an international climate deal. Ministers worked through the night to sign off the draft text, which creates a common basis from which they will now try to resolve hundreds of points of disagreement. Laurence Tubiana, French climate envoy, told the [...]
Syria crisis: RAF jets hit oilfield In second round of air strikes

December 5, 2015

UK jets carried out the second wave of airstrikes Syria yesterday night, in a bid to destroy Islamic State (Isis) controlled oil fields, which the British government says are being used to fund terror attacks on the West. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) said that two Tornado jets, and for the first time, two Typhoons carried out eight attacks [...]
UK housing crisis: Build to Rent investment to triple by 2020

December 5, 2015

Investment in Build to Rent will triple to £50bn by 2020, helping it swell from two to five per cent of the private rental sector, and providing minor relief to the UK's growing housing crisis. It's pertinent as the number of first time buyers and young homeowners are declining, at a time when private rental stock is [...]
San Bernardino shootings: US treating California attack as an “act of terrorism”

December 5, 2015

The FBI is probing the San Bernardino shootings by a couple which killing 14 people wounded and 21 others, as an act of terrorism, with the wife is believed to have pledged her allegiance to the Islamic state in a Facebook post. "Based on the information and the facts as we know them, we are now investigating [...]
European central bank boss Mario Draghi says “no limit” to policy tools

December 5, 2015

European Central Bank (ECB) boss Mario Draghi has said that there's "no limit" to the arsenal of tools it can deploy to fight stubbornly low inflation and slow growth. Draghi, in prepared remarks to an audience in New York, said: "We will secure the return of inflation to 2 percent without undue delay, because we are currently deploying [...]
US crude and brent oil prices recover losses after Opec holds production

December 4, 2015

Oil prices recovered losses this afternoon, as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) decided not to cut production at its key meeting in Vienna. Opec members seemingly failed to agree on an oil production ceiling, after the final statement was published with no mention of a new one, apparently allowing members to continue pumping oil at current rates. [...]
RMT confirms 17 days of DLR strikes in 2016

December 4, 2015

Rail Union RMT announced today that there will be a series of strikes on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) next year, as part of an ongoing dispute over working practices. The strikes, which will run between January and March, are over a number of issues, including DLR operator Keolis Amey's use of agency staff. Last month, DLR workers went [...]
Glencore, BHP Billiton, Anglo American share price: Miners suffer as iron ore falls to fresh 10-year low

December 4, 2015

Iron ore prices fell to a fresh 10-year low today, amid concerns falling demand from its biggest consumer would add to a global glut in the steelmaking raw material. It came after industry consultancy Custeel said more steel mills in China's Shanxi province have halted production due to shrinking demand and shortage of cash. Spot iron ore prices fell to [...]
JD Wetherspoon and Heineken make up after row

December 4, 2015

UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon kicked off the new year by setting aside its differences with Heineken, and putting the Dutch brewer's products back onto the menus of its 926 pubs across the UK and Ireland. From today, Wetherspoon has started serving Heineken, Fosters, Kronenbourg 1664, Strongbow, John Smith's Extra Smooth and Amstel at its [...]
JD Wetherspoon share price rises despite warning customer details stolen in cyber attack

December 4, 2015

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has said that the personal details of more than 650,000 customers may have been stolen in a cyber attack, and a small portion of this included credit card data. For the majority of customers no financial data was stolen, and no passwords were obtained. However, the last four digits of around 100 customers' credit [...]

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