Energy Markets

Stocks move lower on retail, energy weakness

Automakers plead with Congress to help them avoid bankruptcy. Retailers' sales sag, but their stocks jump. The Bank of England and the European Central Bank cut interest rates. Toyota closes a plant in Japan. Merck lowers...

Small caps swoon late as sinking energy sends bulls scampering (SmallCapInvestor.com)

Thursday December 4, 4:30 pm ET Small-cap stocks unraveled in the final hour of trading as the weight of crumbling commodity stocks, a raft of sloppy profit reports and another batch of dreary economic data countered a sturdy...

Shipping still has opportunities

Dubai: Abdullah Al Shuraim, chairman of Gulf Navigation Holding, has spent many years in the shipping industry. These included posts as chief executive officer of the National Shipping Company for six years and a three-year...

Food crisis: A hungry world

The global food crisis that dominated headlines earlier this year has been overshadowed by this Fall's financial crisis, but it continues to exact a crippling toll on the world's poor. And, although commodity prices for a wide...

Dollar gas?

And not at the dollar store, either. Gulf's CEO in the Patriot Ledger: Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski said on Wednesday that the price of oil could sink to $20 per barrel, and there is a chance gasoline prices could drop as low as...

Australian Market Report of December 5: Concerns over Debt Refinancing

Sydney, Australia, Dec 5, 2008 - (ABN Newswire) - US stocks fell for the first time in three days, on concern of General Motors' possibility of bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch's prediction that oil will hit & #36;US25 a barrel hit...

Debt-ridden Lukoil in expansion mode

Even as oil prices crash to four-year lows, Russian energy giant Lukoil is expanding across Europe with a string of projects from refining in Sicily to fuel stations from Belgium to Slovakia. With debt arrears of US$6 billion,...

LIPA considers late fees for residential customers

Even as it sought to justify a 4.8 percent bill increase at sometimes testy morning and night meetings with ratepayers Thursday, the Long Island Power Authority separately acknowledged that a rise in late-paying customers has...

US stocks drop as carmakers seek bail-out, oil price hits new lows

Washington - Wall Street stock indices lost ground Thursday, as US carmakers asked Congress for a federal bail-out and oil prices fell to their lowest level in nearly four years. Shares of General Motors Corp plunged 16 per...

Left Or Right - Which Way Will The Dems Go?

It's the old proverb again - watch what you ask for, you just might get it. The Dems will now attempt to lead a nation that is fed up with politics as usual, and the political extremes who always seem to battle to a stale mate...