China’s factory activity shrank for a 10th straight month in December as surveys across Asia showed industry struggling with slack demand even as the policy cupboard is looking increasingly bare 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
There has been no lack of disasters taking place in 2015. Some can be classified as “natural” others as human caused. In all cases, anyway, they are an indication of 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
A year ago, after oil prices had halved in six months, analysts were forecasting a price recovery in 2015 while many traders were busy shorting the market. As it turned Continue Reading
China looked set for a soggy start to 2016 after activity in the manufacturing sector contracted for a fifth straight month in December, suggesting the government may have to step Continue Reading
A decade-old commodity boom came crashing to an end in 2015, hurting energy and mining companies as China’s industrial rise and appetite for raw materials slowed. The outlook for 2016 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
