China’s crude steel output fell more than 6% in March from the same month a year earlier, data from the statistics bureau showed on Monday, as production at mills was Continue Reading
China’s economy accelerated in the first quarter of the year, even as lockdowns closed factories and kept tens of millions confined to their homes in March, according to official data Continue Reading
Faced with its worst Covid-19 outbreak yet, China has been enforcing an expanding number of mass quarantines, strict lockdowns and border controls. The measures may yet work, but official data Continue Reading
A spring storm brought several feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada and rain to parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, with more stormy weather expected this week. The Continue Reading
A vessel docked at a jetty on Louisiana’s coast is claiming its cargo of liquefied natural gas. Ice forms on a pipe as chilled fuel extracted from fields as far Continue Reading
The Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association notes another month of positive job growth for the Texas upstream sector in 2022. Citing the latest Current Employment Statistics report from Continue Reading
As Europe suffers its worst energy crisis in a generation, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is proposing to subsidize consumption while further curtailing supply. The 53-year-old nationalist is narrowly Continue Reading
The way China classifies coronavirus cases and reports deaths is obscuring the true impact of the Omicron wave and complicating its public health response more than two years into the Continue Reading
Judging by the numbers, China appears to be experiencing a far different pandemic than the rest of the world. In the latest surge in Shanghai, its largest city with a population of Continue Reading
The American workforce has been changing rapidly. Here is a look at where the workers have gone and why. Photo illustration: Liz Ornitz/WSJ Several million workers who dropped out of Continue Reading
