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Australian shares fell before the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia's policy meeting minutes on Tuesday, while Japanese stock were modestly higher as the U.S. dollar regained ground against...
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Southern California Edison has agreed with California investigators to pay $37 million in penalties over a 2007 wildfire that burned nearly 4,000 acres of Los Angeles County.
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Edison International's (EIX) Southern California Edison unit reached an agreement with the California Public Utilities Commission to pay $37 million to settle an investigation relating to three...
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President Barack Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California in early June, the White House announced Monday.
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Colombia's benchmark stock index declined Monday, pushed lower by a drop in the share of state-run oil firm Ecopetrol SA, while the peso was mostly flat against the dollar.
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Natural-gas futures settled higher Monday as investors focused on weather forecasts that pointed to increasing gas demand.
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Plains Exploration & Production Co.'s (PXP) shareholders Monday approved a $6.5 billion merger with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX), overcoming earlier pressure to reject the...
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Plains Exploration & Production Co.'s (PXP) board Monday approved a $6.5 billion merger with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX), overcoming earlier pressure to reject the deal.
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Plains Exploration & Production Co.'s (PXP) board Monday approved a $6.5 billion merger with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX), overcoming earlier pressure to reject the deal.
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Oil futures rose on Monday, with the June contract gaining 69 cents to end at $96.71 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Gold futures settled higher on Monday, snapping a seven-day losing streak.
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Essar Oil Ltd. (500134.BY) will likely sign an initial agreement with a Chinese bank Tuesday for a $1 billion loan as part of the Indian company's efforts to tap overseas funds to refinance...
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Shares of Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol (EC), whose earnings have disappointed investors in recent quarters as it struggles to notch new discoveries, fell under 4,000 pesos Monday for the...
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European investigators have asked top trading houses Glencore , Vitol and Gunvor to help with a probe into oil price manipulation, while not suggesting they are under investigation, industry...
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U.K.'s benchmark stock index ended at the highest closing level since September 2000 on Monday, boosted by banking shares and a rally for budget airline EasyJet PLC.
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Three Qatari state-backed entities, including the Gulf Arab nation's acquisitive sovereign wealth fund, are setting up a $1 billion fund to invest in overseas energy infrastructure assets.
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Plains Exploration & Production Co.'s (PXP) board declared a special dividend of $3 a share, which is conditioned upon the oil company's completed merger with Freeport-McMoRan Copper &...
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Oil futures fell slightly in thin trading Monday as traders weighed the recent rally in the stock market against high inventories and weak oil demand.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that utility companies that paid a windfall tax in the United Kingdom can claim a foreign tax credit on their U.S. tax returns.
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Natural-gas futures rose more than 2% Monday as investors focused on signs of increasing gas demand.
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Oil futures fell slightly in thin trading Monday as traders weighed the recent rally in the stock market against high inventories and weak oil demand.
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Chesapeake Energy's board selected Robert Lawler, an executive at rival energy company Anadarko Petroleum, to serve as chief executive of the nation’s second-largest producer of natural gas.
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Chesapeake Energy Corp. has chosen Robert Douglas Lawler, a top executive at rival oil-and-gas company Anadarko , as chief executive, the Wall
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Banks led U.K. stocks higher in an upbeat session on Monday, while resource firms added pressure after oil and metals prices showed broad-based losses.
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The equipment maker was downgraded to sell from neutral, and its price target was cut to $85 from $98 per share in a noted dated May 17.
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Russia's highest court has decided to hear an appeal in the controversial second conviction of jailed former OAO Yukos boss and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon...
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In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to...
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Roger Carr, the long-standing chairman of U.K. gas utility Centrica PLC (CNA.LN, CPYYY) and a veteran of British takeover battles, is the front runner to replace Dick Olver as chairman of...
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For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. shale oil industry has outstripped all expectations.
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Goldman Sachs plans to pour about Y300 billion ($2.9 billion) into Japanese renewable energy projects over the next five years, having determined that a long-term scheme here to buy renewables at...
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Asian stocks were higher as the U.S. dollar's continued rise pushed Japanese stocks higher, while South Korea's Kospi was subdued after renewed tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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Hong Kong stocks powered higher early Monday, with coal miners and oil producers leading the rally as the market reopened after Friday's holiday, while a further improvement in home prices lifted...
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Australian stocks rose Monday, a stronger start for the benchmark index as banking and mining issues posted gains.
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Britain's parliament will this week consider whether to probe the transparency of oil and mining firms listed in London, an issue highlighted by corruption probes at emerging market miners which...
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Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war...
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Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSB, RDSA.LN, RDSB.LN) last year argued against proposed European rules designed to tighten scrutiny of commodity markets, according to documents obtained by the...
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The single biggest risk to Britain's nascent economic recovery is continued eurozone weakness, the Bank of England's outgoing governor Mervyn King said in a television interview on Sunday.
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State-run Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) appointed a new chief executive and suspended other top officials after the country paid $2.
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Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSA.LN) reported a power outage earlier this week at its Puget Sound refinery in Anacortes, Wash., and subsequent issues while restarting units, according to a filing...
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Apache Corp.'s (APA) board trimmed the targeted pay level of the company's chief executive on Friday, one day after shareholders failed to approve the company's executive-pay practices at an...
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A sharp drop that drove Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (APC) to a penny in the last second of trading Friday exposes a vulnerability in trading rules adopted last month to curb sharp stock swings.
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Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras, said late Friday that it has been able to reverse a court order that had suspended construction at its Comperj...
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Caterpillar Inc's deal to cut the purchase price of a Chinese mining-equipment maker it bought last year ends an embarrassing episode that overshadowed the company's effort to expand in China and...
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Natural-gas futures settled 3.1% higher Friday as new weather triggered hopes of warm-weather demand.
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Oil futures rose to a one-week high Friday, as broader markets rallied on positive U.S. economic data.
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A European probe into possible oil price manipulation expanded with the investigation of a small niche trading house in the Netherlands and a key U.S. senator on Friday called for the Justice...
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U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp has received formal approval from California's attorney general to buy a BP Plc refinery for more than $2 billion.
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Oil futures ended higher on Friday, pushing above $96.00,
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