Petrol prices have never been higher in the UK. After a full week of daily increases to the record retail pump price, the RAC and Experian Catalist reported that as of Sunday, the cost of a litre had hit an unprecedented 167 pence. Diesel was also at a…
Google scooping up security platform Siemplify for $500 million in January of 2022 is one of the biggest acquisitions by Big Tech in the cybersecurity sector in recent years. While GAFAM has long since identified this segment as worth investing in, it …
Tesla has become one of the most valuable companies in the world, with car deliveries almost amounting to one million last year despite global supply chain issues and the dampening economic effects of the pandemic. Incredibly, all of this has been achi…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has driven up oil and other commodity prices in many countries, with gasoline prices turning into a topic of discussion around the world. However, as taxes are making up a big chunk of the gas price in the majority of in…
The hype around cryptocurrencies is spreading around the world, with blockchain currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum or Binance piquing the interest of more and more people – at least in some countries.According to the Statista Global Consumer Survey, Ind…
Some countries declare Bitcoin to be official legal tender while others announce outright bans on cryptocurrency. A world map based on data collected by the Law Library of the U.S. Congress shows where countries have been trying to stop the cryptocurre…
U.S. and global oil benchmark prices climbed to their highest levels since 2011 and 2014, respectively, after OPEC and its oil-producing allies decided to stick to their plan of gradual output hikes despite the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict…
Residents of Greece would have had to pay approximately six percent of their average monthly wage for a full tank of gas this past Monday due to the price hike connected to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine. This is the highest figure among all OE…
According to the IMF, Russian sovereign debt default is no longer “improbable” as the country’s economy is reeling from sanctions and other international scrutiny following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in late February.However, the IMF doe…
Countries feeling an historical threat from Russia have in the past decade upped their expenditure on defense. Some of the biggest spending increases could be seen in Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine, while Moldova (+44 percent) and Estonia (+37 percent) …