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Ryan Dezember

ARTICLES BY RYAN DEZEMBER

With U.S. national debt surpassing $40 trillion and inflation fears escalating, the bond market is undergoing a transformative phase.

There are four forces pressuring bonds: War is no. 1

3 min read . 03 Sept 2026

As tensions rise in the Persian Gulf and China imposes export restrictions, sulfuric acid prices are skyrocketing, raising alarms about global food security and industrial production. (Pexel)

Iran war puts the world’s most used chemical in short supply

3 min read . 10 May 2026

Plumes of smoke rise from an oil facility in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, March 14, 2026. The Iran war sent benchmark Brent futures as high as $119 a barrel before easing back Thursday. (AP Photo)

Saudi Arabia sees a spike to $180 oil if energy shock persists past April

5 min read . 20 Mar 2026

Gold has been hurt by rising inflation expectations.

Here’s what’s behind the selloff in gold and silver

3 min read . 20 Mar 2026

One kilogram fine silver bar, gold bars and silver coins, at a Goldenmark bullion dealer (Bloomberg)

What to know about the wild swings in gold and silver

4 min read . 03 Feb 2026

Among the most bullish gold buyers are those worried about the strength of the U.S. dollar and other major currencies (Reuters)

Five reasons why gold is surging toward $5,000 an ounce

5 min read . 22 Jan 2026

Trucks move rock to be crushed and leached so that copper can be extracted from Gunnison Copper’s Johnson Camp mine in Arizona. Photography by Mark Lipczynski for WSJ

Amazon is buying America’s first new copper output in more than a decade

4 min read . 15 Jan 2026

In recent years, Venezuela’s oil output has plunged and what little it produces has mostly been redirected to countries including Cuba and China.

The US pumps more crude than anyone else. Here’s why it wants Venezuela’s too.

1 min read . 08 Jan 2026

Analysts say it will take years and be costly to bring back Venezuela’s oil output to historical levels.

Why oil prices are barely moving after the Venezuelan incursion

3 min read . 05 Jan 2026

Traders on the New York Stock Exchange floor on Thursday. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (AFP)

How one of the wildest weeks in market history unfolded

4 min read . 12 Apr 2025

Television graphics are seen in the window of Nasdaq headquarters in Times Square, as Nasdaq fell nearly 4% on January 27, 2025, on talk that a cheaper Chinese generative AI program, DeepSeek, can outperform big-name rivals, notably in the United States. (Photo: AFP)

DeepSeek is upending Wall Street’s big AI power trade

3 min read . 28 Jan 2025

Photo: Elizabeth Coetzee/WSJ

Wall Street expects gold to glitter again in 2025

3 min read . 28 Dec 2024

Samples are melted in small furnaces and analyzed to determine copper content.

Your junk is needed for the new electric era

5 min read . 20 Nov 2024

Enviva’s pellet plant in Epes is expected to be the world’s largest.

The rise and fall of a green-energy superstar

9 min read . 11 Sept 2024

An Oil Giant Is Spending $100 Million to Preserve U.S. Forests

An oil giant is spending $100 million to preserve US forests

3 min read . 31 Aug 2024

Your Sweet Tooth Is Getting Expensive

Your Sweet Tooth Is Getting Expensive

3 min read . 15 Mar 2024

Constellation Energy plans to retire a Massachusetts power plant at the end of May.

America Has Plenty of Natural Gas. So Why Is New England Left Out in the Cold?

5 min read . 09 Jan 2024

How Wall Street’s Biggest Forest-Carbon Wager Is Starting to Pay Off

How Wall Street’s Biggest Forest-Carbon Wager Is Starting to Pay Off

3 min read . 05 Dec 2023

J.P. Morgan Asset Management adds $500 million of southern timberland

2 min read . 01 Feb 2023

FILE Morning light lights the landfall facility of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, in Lubmin, Germany, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Germans are facing a new tax on natural gas use that could cost the average household several hundred euros a year and is aimed at rescuing importers slammed by Russian cutbacks tied to the war in Ukraine. An association of gas pipeline operators set the level at 2.4 euro cents per kilowatt hour under legislation passed by the German parliament. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) (AP)

Natural-gas prices have plunged into autumn

3 min read . 30 Oct 2022