I have never followed the tobacco industry: the sum total of my knowledge is: that it features as a no-no on various "ethical" in...

From time to time we pass comment on Centrica - partly because energy is one of our themes; and partly because from inception as an Enron-wa...

Over the years we've often suggested that the way government and regulators cheerfully beat up on the big 6 energy suppliers isn't t...

... unabated , as one might say.  I have just returned from an outing across France and Germany to report that while all eyes are on Greece,...

As oil prices tank ($67 today!), heads must be spinning at our old friend Gazprom, where they still insist on indexing their prices to that ...

The issue of sanctions against Russia over Ukraine has gone a bit quiet of late:  they don't play at all well in Germany (I wonder how t...

An amusing straw in the wind.  Like everyone else I get sent heaps of conference brochures, and one on my desk is this , entitled Long Term ...

We have noted here several times that RWE of Germany, one of the 'Big 6' UK power and gas players (in its local guises as NPower and...

By way of exemplifying our recent comments that RWE might be occupying the bed nearest the door (click on the RWE link in the labels below),...

For some time now I have been suggesting that if the government continues to beat up on the hated 'Big 6' energy suppliers, it may w...

It takes a brave man to defend the unlovely Big 6 energy suppliers these days - or a Telegraph comment-writer mindful of advertising revenue...

Ofgem, whose uselessness over the past decade is a disgrace to the excellent work done by its predecessors Ofgas and Offer in the 1990's...

Here's an amusing turn of events.  At the end of last month, Russia - after 18 years of trying - was admitted to the WTO . Welcome t...

Anyone notice that RWE has been downgraded ?  BBB+ is not a healthy place to be for a big energy utility laden with physical assets - it...