Commodities

Maybe it was appropriate that his last message to his subjects surrounded oil. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz died after a long bout with pneumonia, giving oil a boost even in the face of a soaring dollar and a historic step by the European Central Bank to move towards quantitative easing.

Commodity traders relying on weekly government energy stats will fly blind as the fiscal impasse in Washington lingers.

Egypt may not be a big energy producer, but disruptions to the country's key energy transit routes could have wide ripple effects.

The U.S. shale oil boom will likely cut into OPEC’s share of the world market in 2014 even as world demand grows at its fastest clip in four years.

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Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, slashed its 2016 earnings forecast, citing a strong dollar and pricing pressure.

Investors spent the month fretfully drawn to ambiguous pseudo-pictures including the breathless commentary of cheap gasoline, negative rates, Brexit, recession, and a flattening yield curve.

Gold rose above $1,250 an ounce and neared a one-year high on Wednesday, acting as counter against risk alongside top-rated government bonds as oil's earlier weakness rippled into global equity markets.

Chesapeake Energy posted red ink in the fourth quarter and announced plans to cut spending in half amid the ongoing oil swoon.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Tuesday disclosed a new investment in pipeline operator Kinder Morgan Inc, boosting its bet on the oil industry as prices hover near lows not seen in more than a decade.

The price of gold jumped 2 percent to a 7-1/2-month high on Monday, briefly nudging above the psychological level of $1,200 an ounce, as sliding stock markets and worries over global economic growth prompted investors to seek safety.

The EPA on Friday unveiled a proposal that would lower the annual requirement for ethanol used in gasoline, sending corn prices lower.

A fall in U.S. oil product inventories and worries about prolonged weakness in supply from Libya have been pushing oil prices higher. 

Mining trouble sparked a drop in Caterpillar's earnings and prompted the equipment maker to slash its full-year guidance below estimates.

Alcoa posted adjusted 3Q profits of 11 cents a share, topping estimates. Shares climbed 2.6% in extended trading.

The mining equipment maker warned of an increasingly 'challenging' market amid a glut in coal supplies.

Moody’s downgraded Alcoa’s credit rating to junk status, delivering a rebuke to the blue-chip company amid continued challenges in the aluminum industry.

The rapid increase in U.S. shale oil production, which is expected to give the nation energy self-sufficiency by the end of this decade, is having a far-ranging impact.

The Obama administration approved a second terminal to export liquefied natural gas to non-free trade agreement countries, expanding the nation's role in the gas trade.