At 10:30 p.m. on an 85F August night in Penwell, in West Texas, a 69-year-old repairman is hammering away at the frame of an 18-wheeler in …
From Reuters
A disappointing planting season due to massive flooding in the U.S. Midwest this spring is expected to have spillover effects on diesel demand during harvest season, analysts and traders said.
Heavy storms that lingered over the Midwest left …
From Reuters
The Mexican government will propose an additional tax reduction for heavily indebted state oil company Pemex [PEMEXF.UL] in the nation’s 2020 budget, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday, the latest measure to strengthen the company.
Lopez Obrador …
From Bloomberg
The Trump administration said trade talks with China are starting up again as Beijing reiterated that it’s essential …
From Reuters
U.S. stocks declined on Friday, as the S&P 500 retreated after closing at a record for three straight sessions, following an unexpectedly strong U.S. payrolls report that caused investors to rethink how dovish a turn the Federal Reserve …
From the AJOT
The U.S. added new products from the European Union to potentially target with retaliatory tariffs in a long-running trans-Atlantic subsidy dispute between Boeing Co. and Airbus SE.
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office …
From the Calgary Herald
After it was announced Wednesday that the federal Liberal government would not accept all 188 amendments to the disastrous Impact Assessment Act, or …
By Mathew Carr
The top 10 energy companies are planning investments approaching $1 trillion by 2030, in everything from finding and tapping new fields to equipment ranging from drones to drilling rigs. If the oil and gas …
Chief Executive magazine has published its newest list of the best and worst states for business. Texas ranked Number One—again. California is Number 50—again.
In the executive summary of …
From Bloomberg
A few days before Christmas, the container ship “SM Shanghai” was steaming toward California’s Port of Long Beach. Just ahead and coming to the end of an 11-day journey from China, the “Ever Lucent” was headed for the …
From American Journal of Transportation
More than half of Germany’s small and medium-sized enterprises think Europe’s biggest economy could contract next year, hobbled by slowing global growth, trade disputes and a stuttering auto sector.
Almost 53 percent of so-called “Mittelstand” …
New Construction Starts in November Slip 7 Percent
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From the Washington Times
American manufacturers think the future looks bright.
The GOP-led tax cuts and President Trump’s deregulation efforts are driving record-high optimism in the industry heading into 2019, findings that come amid significant volatility on Wall Street as …
From The Globe and Mail
The Canadian dollar was little changed against the greenback Thursday but hit a 1-1/2-year low earlier in the session and underperformed other G10 currencies, as investors worried that the slumping price of oil could hurt …
