Energy in America

U.S. stock indexes wavered between small gains and losses in early trading Friday as investors weighed the latest batch of company earnings reports and new government data showing the U.S. economy surged in the second quarter at the fastest pace since 2014.

Americans spent with abandon this spring.

South Africa's leader has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country cannot afford to buy nuclear power plants from Moscow, a change from his scandal-ridden predecessor.

Production and refinery throughput declined

Germany's state-owned KfW bank is buying a 20 percent stake in electricity grid operator 50Hertz, fending off a bid from a Chinese company.

Energy producer BP has bought BHP Billiton's shale oil and gas assets in the U.S. for $10.5 billion in a deal that will give it access to the fast-growing shale industry.

Italian oil and gas company Eni says second-quarter profits soared on higher oil prices and production.

A steep sell-off in Facebook is leading a slide in technology stocks that weighed on U.S. indexes in early trading Thursday.

Utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric on Thursday reported a nearly $1 billion loss for the second quarter of 2018 due to clean-up, repair and legal costs related to wildfires that raged across Northern California last fall.

A Wisconsin refinery damaged by an explosion and fire earlier this year is not expected to resume operations until 2020.

The head of a prominent U.S. energy trade group says President Donald Trump's tariffs on European steel and Chinese goods pose a multibillion-dollar threat to America's energy industry.

___ Facebook faces a day of reckoning, at least on Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) — The erosion in the value of Facebook as it is perceived on Wall Street involves some staggering numbers.

The Energy Department violated federal law when it tweeted about an opinion column by Energy Secretary Rick Perry urging repeal of President Barack Obama's health care law, a government watchdog said Thursday.

A federal judge has ruled the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline has no claim under federal racketeering law for damages against a Dutch environmental group that urged banks not to finance the $3.8 billion project.

Investors will find out if higher oil prices are benefiting Exxon.

A government report is outlining how spy services from China, Russia and Iran are hard at work trying to steal trade secrets and proprietary information from U.S. companies, government labs and universities.

Innovation, fracking and direct access to shale gas is putting America in a place it hasn’t been in 60 years, according to Perry.

Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company says it's temporarily halting shipments through a strategic Red Sea shipping lane after Yemen's Shiite rebels attacked two tankers the previous day.