by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Oil edged higher toward $73 a barrel on Friday, supported by real and threatened supply disruptions in the Middle East and heading for a weekly gain. U.S. sanctions on Iran have cut the OPEC member's crude exports further in May, adding to supply cu...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
While its close ally Saudi Arabia unleashed a barrage of tweets accusing their mutual enemy of ordering drone strikes on its oil installations on Tuesday, the UAE held off blaming anyone for Sunday's attacks pending an investigation. Abu Dhabi pledg...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
NUR-SULTAN/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kazakh oil flowing via Russia to be loaded on tankers at the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga has been contaminated and Kazakhstan plans to seek compensation from Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft, a senior Kazakh energy of...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
A day after the southern state passed the country's most restrictive abortion law, Maryland's Democratic Comptroller Peter Franchot said he would advise his state's $52 billion pension fund to divest from Alabama, and urged other states to follow sui...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
In a Federal Register notice released on Thursday, the Commerce Department said the curbs, apply to Huawei and 67 of its affiliates scattered across 26 countries from Germany to Madagascar. The Trump administration is pulling out the big guns in its...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
It’s barely 9am in the café, she’s not even ordered the quota of one coffee she’s allowed a day, and Jess Mills is, freely and fully, discussing the death of her mother and getting through a year of grief. “Bereavement and loss have become a defining...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Amazon.com Inc. is leading a $575 million investment in Deliveroo, buying a slice of the fast-growing startup and pitting it directly against Uber Technologies Inc. in a fiercely competitive European food delivery industry. Consolidation has been he...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Washington (AFP) - SpaceX postponed a launch of 60 satellites into low-Earth orbit that was scheduled for Thursday night, possibly until next week, citing a need for software updates.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
BP will face pressure at a meeting next week to set tougher targets to combat climate change, the latest signal from investors that they want the oil and gas industry to do more to clean up its act. After BP's 2018 carbon emissions rose to their hig...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The Beijing delivery man who arrived with Christine Lin’s new silver bracelet came dressed in an elegant black suit -- complete with white gloves. Inside, under layers of glossy wrapping paper, was the $90 limited-edition bracelet (from a brand co-f...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Cray investors will get $35 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement on Friday, confirming an earlier Bloomberg report. Cray jumped 17% to $34.89 at 9:49 a.m. in New York trading after earlier touching $34.96, the biggest intraday gain in...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Reaching out a weathered hand, Marciana Caycedo prods the smooth round bellies of the mothers-to-be, feeling for their baby's outline inside the taut skin as they line up at her home. For Caycedo is the only midwife on Isla Mono, a small island maro...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The space snowman known as 2014 MU69 or Ultima Thule added to its celebrity today by showing up on the cover of the journal Science, with the first peer-reviewed results from an encounter with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft laid out within. Close...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
A SpaceX launch already scrubbed once due to inclement weather was postponed again nearly 24 hours later on Thursday, this time for "about a week," in order to update satellite software and "triple-check everything," Elon Musk's rocket company said....
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be tossed because a U.S. regulatory agency said the herbicide is not a public health risk. Som...