Commodity Markets

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…

By PAUL WISEMAN and EVELYNE MUSAMBI - Associated Press A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis — a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread — to save on cooking oil.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and JIM SALTER - Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Producers of spirits have new bragging rights in the age-old whiskey vs. beer barroom debate.New figures show that spirits…

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…

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street sagged under weakness in tech stocks.U.S. futures edged lower while oil prices rebounded.Japan revised upward its GDP data to show the economy contracted less…

More weakness in tech stocks sent Wall Street mostly lower after another day of wobbly trading. The S&P 500 ended 0.2% lower Wednesday, its fifth straight loss. The Nasdaq, which is heavily weighted with tech companies,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered between small gains and losses on Wall Street Wednesday, leaving prospects uncertain for the market to break a four-day losing streak.The S&P 500 fell 0.1% as of 10:14 a.m. Eastern. The…

Wall Street futures edged lower Wednesday ahead of new employment and wholesale price data with the Federal Reserve gauging its next step in its fight to cool inflation.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrials slipped 0.4% and…

World shares slipped on Wednesday, with Hong Kong’s benchmark down more than 3%, even as Beijing announced it was scaling back its “zero-COVID” policies.U.S. futures and oil prices also dropped.The declines followed a…

Shares fell in Asia on Wednesday with Hong Kong's benchmark down more than 2% even as Beijing announced it was drastically scaling back its “zero-COVID" policies, shifting away from trying to isolate every single case.The…