China’s economy slowed in December, capping the weakest quarter of growth since the 2009 global recession, as the Communist leadership struggles to manage a transition to consumer-led expansion. Industrial production, Continue Reading
Cnooc Ltd., China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer, plans to trim output for the first time in more than a decade as it cuts spending to cope with oil’s Continue Reading
Chinese steel production and power generation contracted last year for the first time in at least a quarter of a century, according to official statistics released on Tuesday, as the Continue Reading
If currencies at least partly determine where things get made, the continued rise in the US dollar is bad news for manufacturers in the US. It is especially bad news given Continue Reading
China’s economy recorded the slowest annual expansion in a quarter of a century in 2015 as authorities signaled more supply-side structural reforms for long-term growth. The economy grew 6.9 percent Continue Reading
Never has corporate turnaround expert Jeff Huddleston been more needed or more dreaded. Huddleston says he’s gotten used to being “the most hated guy” in the room over the past Continue Reading
Undeterred by taunts that fusion always seems to lie 50 years in the future as a commercial energy source, a growing programme of research is aimed at taming the nuclear Continue Reading
The ruble strengthened the most in almost four weeks as oil and other emerging-market currencies climbed while Rabobank said it may be premature to expect further gains. The Russian currency Continue Reading
From Science magazine’s “The Next Oil Crisis Looms Large—and Perhaps Close,” Aug. 21, 1998: This spring . . . the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) of the Organization for Economic Continue Reading
Crude oil prices continued to slide Monday with the Brent global benchmark and its U.S. counterpart West Texas Intermediate firmly entrenched under $30 a barrel. Brent fell 1.28% to $28.54 Continue Reading
