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Asian stock markets traded mostly higher Friday, with Japanese blue chips swinging to gains in the afternoon session.The rise for the major markets came as Hong Kong and Seoul were closed for holidays, curbing trading volumes in bourses that were open.Japan's Nikkei Stock Average closed 0.7% higher, undoing losses from the morning session and erasing Thursday's 0.4% retreat, which had followed a major jump of 2.3% on Wednesday.Losses for Wall Street overnight had helped dampen sentiment earlier in the day, as the S&P 500 (SPX) finished down 0.5% after a Federal Reserve official tipped a pullback in the central bank's easing programs could come as soon as this summer.But offsetting the U.S. loss were domestic data showing Japan's core machinery orders -- seen as a leading indicator of capital investment -- jumped 14.2% in March, well above forecasts.Real-estate shares were a strong spot for the Tokyo market, as some major names rebounded from recent losses. Among them, Mitsui Fudosan Co...
Japan is set to dramatically reform its domestic power industry by splitting nine regional utilities into generation, grid and retail companies, and eliminating all ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) said Friday it won't be restarting the one nuclear power plant it has any chance of running any time soon after an expert advisory...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Two of the world's biggest uranium miners, Rio Tinto PLC and Areva SA , are pressing Canada to change a Cold War era policy that curbs...
Former U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham weighs in on the future of nuclear energy.
The European Commission launched an investigation to determine whether Germany is providing illegal state aid to energy-intensive companies through exemptions from e...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission faced pressure from Republicans and Democrats Thursday to soften a potentially expensive new mandate for aging nuclear power p...
An administrative court in the German state of Hesse ruled Wednesday that utility company RWE AG (RWE.XE) can sue for damages over the temporary closure of two block...
German power and gas utility RWE AG (RWE.XE) and labor unions ver.di and IG BCE said Friday they have agreed on a new wage deal that should help avert the first full...
Nuclear Energy Institute President Marvin Fertel said Thursday that the U.S. government is close to closing a loan guarantee deal with Southern Co. (SO) that would b...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) is nearing completion of a deal to import 800,000 tons of liquefied natural gas a year from the U.S. starting in 2017, a new sign ...
Germany's tax on nuclear fuel rods, introduced by the federal government in 2011 and fiercely opposed by the country's atomic power plant operators, violates the con...
German power and gas utilities face the first full-scale strike action at home since the country opened up its energy market in 1998 after labor unions declared an i...
Japanese stocks extended their losses in early Friday action, with a weak overnight performance on the U.S. markets helping send the Nikkei Stock Average down 0.9% t...
Electricite de France SA (EDF.FR) Tuesday confirmed its full-year financial objectives as it posted a 12.1% increase in first-quarter revenue, mostly due to the last...
French power utility Electricite de France SA (EDF.FR) can keep operating the second nuclear reactor at Fessenheim power plant while it carries out additional securi...
Japan and Russia expect to clinch up to 20 deals, launch an investment fund and reopen talks on a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty form...
A final report of the gas leak incident which forced oil and gas major Total SA (TOT, FP.FR) to evacuate its North Sea platform of Elgin last year is to be issued wi...
Crude-oil futures rebounded in Asian trade Monday as investors weighed weak U.S. economic data and other developments in the region.On the New York Mercantile Exchan...
Turkey has decided to hire a team led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (7011.TO) and France's Areva to build a nuclear power plant at a cost of $22 billion, the N...
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