LONDON (AP) -- Russian steel maker OAO Severstal said Friday it struck a deal to buy gold and precious metals miner Celtic Resources Holdings PLC for 173 million pounds ($364 million). Severstal has increased its offer by 7 percent to 290 pence ($6.1
NEW YORK (AP) -- As more companies lamented higher commodity costs in their latest quarterly earnings reports, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture said corn prices are projected to keep rising despite a record yearly crop. In a report released Friday, the
NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors can expect more consolidation in the metals and mining sector, and most of that will likely be financed by debt, said a Standard Poor's credit analyst Friday. The sector, which includes about 50 coal, steel, aluminum and ot
NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors can expect more consolidation in the metals and mining sector, and most of that will likely be financed by debt, said a Standard Poor's credit analyst Friday. The sector, which includes about 50 coal, steel, aluminum and ot
NEW YORK (AP) -- JetBlue Airways Corp. shares tumbled to an all-time low Friday after the carrier's chief financial officer resigned unexpectedly. The sharp drop was exacerbated by a rise in oil prices, which resumed their march toward the $100 mark
In his (check it out for the great charts), CNBC's Larry Kudlow forcefully explains why high oil prices don't mean we're headed toward a return to 1970s-style inflation: "Stocks and bonds are both telling us that this is not the 1970s.... In the 1970
Even in the days of frequent bumper oil finds, billion-barrel discoveries were something special. Today, in a world without cheap and plentiful oil, such a find sends markets into excited spasms. Witness the reaction to Thursday's announcement from P
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A monster offshore oil discovery and promising fields near the find could help Brazil join the ranks of the world's major exporters, but full-scale extraction is unlikely until 2013 and will be very expensive. The "ultra-dee
Sens. John Warner and Joseph Lieberman certainly have drawn criticism from both the left and the right for their climate change bill, the America's Climate Security Act of 2007. But have the Virginia Republican and Connecticut independent amassed eno
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Is nuclear energy in New Jersey's future? How can electricity costs be cut? Will windmills become a common sight off the Jersey shore? These are among the questions that may be answered in the governor's energy master plan, whic
BERLIN, Conn. (AP) -- The Connecticut Light Power Company has withdrawn a plan to recover executive bonuses as part of its rate increase request. The chairman of CLP's parent company says he opted to drop the bonus plan after discussing the issue wit
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of NRG Energy Inc. fell Friday amid a broader market pullback and after a Credit Suisse analyst downgraded the stock because of the economic risk posed by the electricity generator's pollution. Analyst Dan Eggers lowered his r
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The marquee at Ray Winder Field reads like a tombstone, noting the days that minor league teams suited up at Little Rock's Fair Park: April 13, 1932-Sept. 3, 2006. Since the final out -- a ground ball to third just over a ye
NEW YORK (AP) -- Airline stocks dropped sharply Friday after JetBlue Airways Corp. reported the resignation of its chief financial officer and US Airways Group Inc. stock received a downgrade from Goldman Sachs. The Amex Airline Index fell $1.59, or
GENEVA (AP) -- Brazil and Canada will ask a World Trade Organization panel to decide if Washington is violating international trade laws with the billions of dollars it gives to American farmers. The Canadian government announced Thursday that it wou
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·Spinning cotton
·Cotton: the next commodity c
·Oil inventories post surpris
·Agriculture Futures Slide on
·Russian Food Makers, Retaile
·Bhutto Is Unlikely Savior of
·Writedowns Overshadow Merril
·BGI's New ETNs Track Commodi
·La. Cotton Farms Hope for Dr
·Bunge Lifts 2007 Profit Outl
·Trinidad Boosts Sugarcane Fa
·Spinning cotton
·Cotton: the next commodity c
·Oil inventories post surpris
·Agriculture Futures Slide on
·Russian Food Makers, Retaile
·Bhutto Is Unlikely Savior of
·Writedowns Overshadow Merril
·BGI's New ETNs Track Commodi
·La. Cotton Farms Hope for Dr
·Bunge Lifts 2007 Profit Outl
·Trinidad Boosts Sugarcane Fa
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