While the U.S. deals with the new coronavirus, racial injustice and a presidential campaign, tensions with China continue to unfold. WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib explains. Photo: Wang Zhao/AFP President Trump Continue Reading
China’s auto sales rose 1.8% in June over a year earlier but fell by double digits for the first half of 2020 after the country shut down to fight the Continue Reading
In July 1945, at the close of World War II, the leaders of the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union gathered at a Prussian royal palace in Potsdam outside Continue Reading
Higher oil prices and a fuel glut in Asia are depressing refining margins, likely forcing China’s independent refiners to scale down crude oil processing rates in the third quarter, traders Continue Reading
China pledged to retaliate after the U.S. sanctioned a top member of China’s ruling Communist Party and three other officials over human rights abuses in the far western region of Continue Reading
Threats to oil shipping routes are nothing new to the oil market. It has endured Iran seizing tankers in the Strait of Hormuz , and it has endured Iran’s repeated Continue Reading
Record-breaking coronavirus cases and deaths in several U.S. states are dimming hopes of economic recovery, with cellphone data showing shoppers are staying away from stores in areas where cases are Continue Reading
Even before the coronavirus pandemic upended all forecasts for global trade and energy demand, analysts had doubted that China would be able to fulfill its pledge in the phase-one trade Continue Reading
VLCC of Forties crude arrives in May for first time in 9 months Q3 North Sea crude, condensate imports may surpass 6 mil barrels Forties-WTI price spread on CFR Asia Continue Reading
After the coronavirus was first reported in the U.S. in January, the first million reported cases developed over roughly three months, as testing centered around those who had fallen ill Continue Reading
The Chinese and Russian leadership have over the years intensified political and economic collaboration. Troubling relations with the West in general and the U.S. in particular are increasingly driving Beijing Continue Reading
Russia on Thursday reported 6,509 new cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing its official nationwide tally to 707,301, the fourth largest caseload in the world. The national coronavirus taskforce said Continue Reading
When the bottom fell out of international crude oil markets earlier this year, global oil storage was at a premium. In the United States, finding sufficient crude oil storage became Continue Reading
China said on Wednesday it will impose visa restrictions on U.S. citizens who have engaged in what it called egregious behavior over Tibet, in apparent retaliation against U.S restrictions on Continue Reading
Car sales in China retreated in June following a rare increase the previous month, signaling the world’s biggest auto market is facing a bumpy recovery from a two-year slump worsened Continue Reading
Ever since the coronavirus emerged in Europe, Sweden has captured international attention by conducting an unorthodox, open-air experiment. It has allowed the world to examine what happens in a pandemic Continue Reading
Last August, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Zarif, paid a visit to his China counterpart, Wang Li, to present a roadmap on a comprehensive 25-year China-Iran strategic partnership that built upon Continue Reading
India has deferred the resumption of international commercial flights until July 31 from its previous announcement of July 15 while also curtailing some domestic flights, marring the prospects of an Continue Reading
China’s crude oil imports in June hit a record high, according to a market analysis by OilX Research, in a sign that China’s thirst for crude oil is not being Continue Reading
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) seemed to be considering, by July 2020, whether to risk early military conflict as a means of moving its declining strategic fortunes back from Continue Reading
The coronavirus has ripped through Poland’s coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75% of the nation’s electrical Continue Reading
The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists have been Continue Reading
India has over-taken Russia with the world’s third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases, at nearly 700,000, according to the latest data, as the outbreak shows no sign of slowing. Health Continue Reading
Citigroup Inc. sharply lowered its forecast for India’s economy as the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing. The nation’s gross domestic product will contract 6% in the fiscal year Continue Reading
A Chinese coal industry group halted publication of a daily consumption index that was widely used as a real-time indicator of the nation’s economic health. Accurate and timely data is key to Continue Reading
Global stock markets and U.S. futures rallied on hopes for a strong recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and a signal from Chinese state media suggesting investors should support a local Continue Reading
A herdsman in Inner Mongolia was confirmed to be infected with bubonic plague, Chinese health officials said, a reminder of how even as the world battles a pandemic caused by Continue Reading
A bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from an adenopathic lymph node of a plague patient Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after a city in the Continue Reading
The recent turnaround in oil market sentiment was to a large extent due to China showing signs of demand recovering back to normalcy. May 2020 witnessed the highest-ever level of Continue Reading
Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has cast doubt on whether China can meet its targets to buy U.S. goods under this year’s trade deal—with energy emerging as the biggest Continue Reading
The Independence Day weekend concluded with dire predictions about the surge of coronavirus cases around the country and with national and local officials saying a rush to reopen fueled the spread Continue Reading
Multiple cargoes carrying US crude oil arrived in Chinese waters in June as independent refiners resumed North American oil purchases in recent trading cycles, but the ongoing port congestion has Continue Reading
People in Beijing rushed to buy train and plane tickets out of the Chinese capital after the local government began easing travel restrictions for the first time since an outbreak Continue Reading
Economic activity is gathering momentum in China, a raft of survey data showed this week, the latest sign that Beijing’s uncompromising approach to tackling the coronavirus pandemic is starting to Continue Reading
The most prevalent strain of influenza spreading among pigs in China has sparked concern among scientists, who say it has certain properties that give it pandemic potential. Chief among them: The virus Continue Reading
It’s the beginning of the end for the era of mega-dam building in China. China Three Gorges Corp. on Monday turned on the first set of generators at the massive Wudongde hydropower Continue Reading
Chinese independent refineries’ June crude imports edged down 0.5% to 4.4 million b/d, or 18 million mt, in June from the record high of 4.42 million b/d in May as Continue Reading
Chinese independent refineries’ June crude imports edged down 0.5% to 4.4 million b/d, or 18 million mt, in June from the record high of 4.42 million b/d in May as Continue Reading
The world’s fastest-growing oil market is showing an uneven recovery two months after easing demand-destroying virus-control measures. Provisional fuel sales in June had climbed within 88% of 2019 levels from less Continue Reading
Vehicle sales advanced for a third straight month in China, signaling that an economic rebound is gathering pace as the coronavirus pandemic gradually abates in the country. Sales of passenger cars Continue Reading
The U.S. economy can escape another decade-long slog back to health if strong public measures or a vaccine curb virus surges, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly Continue Reading
China is expected to buy large volumes of US soybeans in the fourth quarter, but is projected to fall short of Phase 1 trade deal targets, S&P Global Platts head Continue Reading
Chinese manufacturing activity strengthened in June but the leading indices provided further evidence that the country’s steel market recovery will be largely domestically-driven. The manufacturing purchasing managers’ index, published by Continue Reading
A new study finds that automated pollution monitors in China led to more accurate readings and that citizens used this information to protect themselves better against the harms of air Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States government’s top infectious diseases expert on Tuesday warned that daily COVID-19 cases could more than double if Americans fail to take countermeasures and cautioned Continue Reading
The reopening of Tucson’s historic Hotel Congress lasted less than a month. General manager Todd Hanley on June 4 ended a two-month coronavirus lockdown and reopened the 39-room hotel at Continue Reading
When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before. But as Egon Ozer, an infectious-disease specialist Continue Reading
The worst could be still to come in the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, six months on from when the outbreak began. WHO head Tedros Adhanom Continue Reading
Fuel demand in India, the world’s third-largest oil importer and third-largest oil consumer, is set to rebound to pre-crisis levels by the end of September, Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Continue Reading
Pakistan’s oil marketing companies are likely to import more spot barrels of motor fuels soon as the recovery in domestic demand amid low refinery run rates threatens to draw down Continue Reading
