Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on Saturday for terrorism it said, an apparent message to both Sunni Muslim jihadists and Shi’ite anti-government protesters that the conservative Islamic kingdom will brook Continue Reading
The latest developments following Saudi Arabia’s execution of 47 people, including a prominent opposition Shiite cleric who had rallied demonstrations in the kingdom (All times local). 2:25 p.m. Saudi Arabia’s Continue Reading
Venezuela’s state oil company is temporarily halting natural-gas exports across the border to Colombia, citing climate factors and the need to generate electricity, the Colombian government said Friday. Petróleos de Continue Reading
China had one of the best-performing stock markets in the world in 2015. Yet it was a dismal year for Chinese markets. Chinese stocks suffered an unprecedented summer crash that Continue Reading
China’s economy started the year with more bad news as official data showed that the manufacturing sector shrank for a fifth straight month in December. That will increase pressure on Continue Reading
Residents of southern states along the Mississippi River are bracing for the flooding that has swamped communities from the Ohio River Valley to eastern Oklahoma over the last week, causing Continue Reading
Russia’s crude output set another post-Soviet record in December, a sign that the nation’s producers are withstanding the slump in oil prices, according to Energy Ministry data. The country’s crude Continue Reading
Oil prices capped a second year as one of the worst-performing commodities, as a global glut of crude continued to weigh on the market. After plunging from more than $100 Continue Reading
OPEC crude output was steady this month as the 12-member group abandoned its usual production target. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries increased production by 18,000 barrels to 32.139 million Continue Reading
Oil prices headed for a second year of steep losses, despite inching up fractionally in the last trading hours of 2015, as record OPEC supply created an unprecedented global glut Continue Reading
