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Asian stock markets were mostly higher Tuesday as 2018 trading began and investors looked ahead to whether the record-setting U.S. equity run will last.

BP PLC said Tuesday that it expects recent changes to U.S. corporate taxes to boost its future earnings, but it will take a one-off $1.50 billion charge due to the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities.

A power outage on the tracks at New York's Penn Station has affected train service on Amtrak and New Jersey Transit.

A Sunni jihadist group has claimed to have blown up an oil pipeline in Iran's southern Khuzestan province, the scene of other attacks by Arab separatists.

Puerto Rico authorities say nearly half of power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria.

U.S. stock indexes edged lower early Friday on the final day of trading for 2017.

The Trump administration is proposing to rewrite or kill rules on offshore oil and gas drilling that were imposed after the deadly 2010 rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

____ US stocks slide on final trading day of 2017 Wall Street capped its final day of trading for 2017 in the red, weighed down by a broad slide in light trading ahead of the New Year's holiday.

State environmental regulators say it shouldn't cost ratepayers more money or take as long as the nation's largest public utility has estimated to complete a massive, court-ordered coal ash cleanup at a Tennessee power plant.

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It was a strong year for the stock market, but 2017 was a great year if you made airplanes (think Boeing), were an online juggernaut (Amazon) or built homes (KB Homes).

The executive who led South Carolina's state-owned utility during a scuttled multibillion-dollar project to build two nuclear reactors is stepping down after the governor wanted to fire him.

A toddler bed that can collapse and entrap a child is among this week's recalled consumer products.

Asian stock markets mostly drifted higher on the final trading day of 2017 Friday after Wall Street finished with modest gains.

China has denied violating U.N.-imposed limits on oil supplies to North Korea after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Beijing.

President Donald Trump's administration is rescinding proposed rules for hydraulic fracturing and other oil- and gas-drilling practices on government lands.

U.S. stock indexes were up slightly in light trading early Thursday as technology companies posted more gains.

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U.S. officials said Thursday that they misspoke when they recently announced they had approved an expansion of a Montana coal mine that would keep it operating for another 19 years.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Range Resources Corp., up 65 cents to $17.61 Natural gas companies continued to rise as cold weather boosted the price of natural gas.