Energy in America

The prime ministers of Vietnam and Russia have agreed to nearly triple their bilateral trade volume to $10 billion by 2020 from $3.55 billion last year.

Japan is reporting a trade deficit in October but is seeing a recovery in exports after getting slammed by natural disasters in September.

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has dropped 12 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, to $2.72.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has cautioned an international energy company against cooperating with the government of Cyprus in its search for gas.

The Latest on the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Papua New Guinea (all times local): 2:40 p.m.

Greenpeace says six of its activists boarded a tanker transporting Indonesian palm oil in the Gulf of Cadiz and were detained by its captain after unfurling "Save our Rainforest" and "Drop Dirty Palm Oil" banners.

North Dakota set oil and gas production records in September, but a slowdown is expected in the coming months due to a sharp drop in oil prices.

Iraq's president is visiting Iran less than two weeks after the United States restored oil sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal.

Shares of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. soared Friday after California's top utility regulator said his agency will help the company deal with potentially crippling liability costs from wildfires.

___ Brexit, Italy, trade: Risks piling up for Europe's economy FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe's long-running economic rebound is facing a mid-life crisis as it copes with worries including a potential debt explosion in Italy, an escalating US-China trade war and a potentially disruptive British exit from the European Union.

Iraq's Oil Ministry says Iraq has resumed exports from its oil fields around Kirkuk, one year after the city was seized by federal forces from the autonomous Kurdish administration in the north of the country.

A U.S. State Department official says Washington sees "great promise" in developing energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean as ExxonMobil began exploratory drilling off Cyprus' southwestern coast.

U.S. industry expanded as a slower pace in October, with manufacturing growth offsetting declines in mining and utility production.

A late afternoon wave of buying moved U.S. stocks higher Thursday.

Shares were mixed in Asia on Friday on revived concerns over the prospects for a breakthrough in trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

U.S. stocks moved broadly lower in early trading Thursday, extending the market's losing streak into a sixth day.

As leaders land in Papua New Guinea for a Pacific Rim summit, the welcome mat is especially big for China's president.