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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country's heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, on Thursday, angered by a...

(Reuters) -The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on Thursday adopted a new market design for the state's electric grid that will see power plants getting paid to be on...

By Andrea Shalal DAKAR (Reuters) -Russia's war in Ukraine is hitting Africans particularly hard by exacerbating food insecurity and putting an unnecessary drag on the continent's...

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com -- Gold prices maintained their luster for a fifth week in a row as bullish investors pushed toward a test of the $1,950 an ounce level on Friday —...

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil settled up about $1 a barrel on Friday and notched a second straight weekly gain as China's economic prospects brightened, boosting...

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com -- Glowing forecasts of an economically-resurgent China helped oil bulls coast to a second winning week on Friday, with analysts saying the...

By Barani KrishnanInvesting.com -- Five weeks running and the bulls in natural gas aren’t catching a break yet from the weather. Futures of the heating fuel on the New York...

By Maha El Dahan DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - A different type of energy transition has taken place at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. Unlike 2021's COP26...

By Peter Nurse   Investing.com -- Oil prices edged higher Friday, poised to record a second weekly gain, on hopes the ending of COVID restrictions in China will result in a sharp...

By Siyi Liu and Dominique Patton FOSHAN, China (Reuters) - China's copper buyers face higher costs for the metal this year, buyers and analysts said, after market disruptions from...

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan. With the macro picture turning foggy again, streaming giant Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) generated a rare bright spark...

By Ambar Warrick  Investing.com -- Oil prices rose further on Friday, and were set to end the week higher as optimism over an eventual recovery in Chinese demand this year largely...

By Jake Spring URUARA, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes on Thursday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation...

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- Gold prices hovered at a nine-month high on Friday after a sharp rally in the prior session, and were headed for a fifth consecutive week of gains...

By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Star stock picker Cathie Wood of Ark Invest suggested the rally in energy stocks will soon end and reiterated her bullish view on electric...

By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) - Environmental groups on Thursday sued the United States to overturn its approval of a deepwater oil-export facility off the Texas Gulf...

By Barani KrishnanInvesting.com -- The draw from U.S. natural gas storage was larger-than-expected, but not enough to bump the fuel’s prices up from 19-month lows. The front-month...

By Shariq Khan BENGALURU (Reuters) -Oil prices settled 1% higher on Thursday, extending a recent rally built around rising Chinese demand, while the market wrote off a second...

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com -- Oil prices settled up about 1% Thursday, recouping losses from the previous session, as bulls in the space bet on falling U.S. refinery runs to...

(Reuters) - Ukraine's foreign minister said on Thursday it was time to review the $60 per barrel price cap imposed on Russian seaborne oil, on the grounds that the current market...

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com -- The Biden administration has stopped drawing crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Energy Information Administration said in...

By Barani Krishnan  Investing.com -- U.S. crude stockpiles jumped by more than eight million barrels last week, the government-run Energy Information Administration, or EIA, said...

By Forrest Crellin, Benjamin Mallet and America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) -A nationwide strike against pension reform in France led to a substantial fall in electricity output and...

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan. World markets have been spooked by the prospect the U.S. may be heading for recession after all but the Federal...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Al Gore said on Wednesday that the climate crisis was getting worse faster than world is tackling it and that he supported the recent action taken...

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- Oil prices fell further on Thursday as industry data signaled another big weekly build in U.S. crude inventories, while weak economic data and a...

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- Gold prices recovered slightly from a two-day losing streak on Thursday amid growing uncertainty over a potential recession and the path of U.S....

By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Republicans in a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday that limiting...

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com -- U.S. crude stockpiles had another multi-million barrel build last week, trade group API said Wednesday, bucking market expectations for a drop...

By Stefanie Eschenbacher MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican state oil company Pemex illegally burnt off hydrocarbon resources worth more than $342 million in the three years up to...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday called out inefficiencies in the operation of a deal allowing Ukraine Black Sea grain exports, but...

By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell about 1% on Wednesday, surrendering early gains as worries about a possible U.S. recession outweighed optimism that China's...

By Laura Sanicola WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. oil refiners plan twice as many refinery overhauls this spring as usual, aiming to resume maintenance delayed by the pandemic and by...

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com -- Is bad really good? It’s a question oil bulls had to reckon with as oil prices retreated from Wednesday’s highs reached on China’s bullish story...

By Barani Krishnan Investing.com -- Gold’s getting stopped before the anticipated $1,950 resistance, though it seems to have found a bed at $1,900. Gold for February delivery on...