Energy
Mass. gas prices up a penny
The price of a gallon of gas in Massachusetts has crept up by a penny in the past week yet remains well below the national average. AAA Southern New England reports Monday that self-serve, regular climbed in the past week to an average of $3.50 per gallon, eleven cents lower ...
Oil rises past $98 on Syria, ahead of Fed meeting
The price of oil climbed to above $98 a barrel Monday amid concerns over an escalation in the civil war in Syria and as traders awaited a critical meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve later in the week. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for July delivery was up ...
Attacks in Benghazi kill 6 Libyan soldiers
Rooftop snipers and knife-wielding assailants killed six soldiers in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi early Saturday, officials said, in the largest attack on the country's new security forces to date. The brazen overnight assault by hundreds of plain-clothed gunmen on security installations forced soldiers to withdraw from some of their ...
Pakistan _ Nuclear-armed but short of electricity
A woman named Rehana Yasmin struggles to keep her sick 2-year-old granddaughter cool in a sweltering hospital where working air conditioners are rare and electric fans are idle for much of the day. Elsewhere, households can't rely on their refrigerators, and at textile factories, factory workers say they can't operate ...
Explosions remind La. that plants not always safe
By some measures, chemical plants like the sites of separate fatal explosions this week in Louisiana are among the safest manufacturing workplaces in America. That doesn't stop residents and emergency responders from keeping wary eyes on the hundreds of facilities stretched along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton ...
Judge sides with feds in Montana oil lease dispute
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from environmentalists who tried to block almost 80,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana in a bid to force companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon said in his ruling that the emissions from future drilling ...
Metals rise broadly; crude oil near high for year
Metals prices ended higher Friday, while crude oil jumped to its highest level since January. Gold for August delivery rose $9.80 to $1,387.60 an ounce. Silver for July delivery rose 37.1 cents to $21.954 an ounce. July copper rose 1.65 cents to $3.2015 a pound. July platinum rose 30 cents ...
Business Highlights
_____ Microsoft brings Office to iPhone, but not iPad NEW YORK (AP) — Even as a pared-down version of Microsoft's Office software package arrived on the iPhone, the company is holding out on extending that to the iPad and Android devices as it tries to boost sales of tablet computers ...
Metals rise broadly; crude oil near high for year
Metals prices ended higher Friday, while crude oil jumped to its highest level since January. Gold for August delivery rose $9.80 to $1,387.60 an ounce. Silver for July delivery rose 37.1 cents to $21.954 an ounce. July copper rose 1.65 cents to $3.2015 a pound. July platinum rose 30 cents ...
Oil price highest since January on Syria concerns
Oil rose to the highest level since January amid concerns about a possible escalation in Syria's civil war. Benchmark oil for July delivery rose $1.16 to close at $97.85 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil finished the week with a gain of $1.82 a barrel, or 1.9 ...
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