Commodities

Silver prices poised to outshine gold

The less-valuable metal climbed 20 percent over the past week to $23 an ounce, a gain of more than 94 percent from its bottom below $12 in March

Judge rejects Dakota Access request for emergency order

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request for an emergency order to delay the process of shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline while attorneys appeal a ruling to shutter the pipeline during the course of an environmental review.

Fracking trailblazer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy

Chesapeake Energy Corp. said Sunday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection as an oil- and gas-price rout stoked by the coronavirus pandemic proved to be the final blow for a shale-drilling pioneer long hamstrung by debt.