Commodity/Financial Market News

Investments in solar power are on course to overtake spending on oil production for the first time, the foremost example of a widening gap between renewable-energy funding and stagnating fossil-fuel industries, according to the head of the…

Diesel makes the economy go, but it was only last year that the price of the fuel became the stuff of dinner-table conversation.Retail diesel prices soared to an all-time high of $5.816 a gallon last June 19, part of the big run-up in…

Mergers and acquisitions slowed substantially in 2022 as companies faced a mix of financing challenges, including rising interest rates, a pullback in leveraged finance, bond-market jitters and the possibility of a recession.But many…

Freight companies are preparing for what executives are calling a muted peak season, as dimming shipping demand from overstocked retailers ripples across U.S. shipping markets. Several big operators say they are seeing freight demand drop…

More U.S. companies are drawing investors’ attention to earnings figures that strip away the negative impact of foreign-currency rates as the strong dollar continues to pinch quarterly results.Reporting results on a constant-currency basis…

CNX Resources Corp. was initially planning to raise funds in the bond market in January, but the natural gas firm decided to wait until its earnings were out at the end of the month—only to find that Russia’s…

Real-estate companies are facing soaring costs to protect their variable debt against jumps in interest rates, with prices on some contracts jumping at least 10-fold this month from a year earlier.Banks and other lenders often require…

Cheniere Energy Inc.’s finance chief is working toward landing an investment-grade credit rating in the coming year, as the largest U.S. exporter of liquefied natural gas pays down debt and benefits from the…

For centuries, bond investing has boiled down to forecasting two things: which way interest rates are going to move and how likely a borrower is to repay its debts. A handful of startups are betting that to predict repayments in the future,…

TOKYO—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has embarked on an international lobbying blitz for a proposal she says will stave off a global recession, working to address technical and diplomatic challenges to her…