Oil tanks seen at the Saudi Aramco headquarters during a media tour at Damam city November 11, 2007. REUTERS/ Ali Jarekji/File Photo The first independent audit of Saudi Aramco’s [IPO-ARMO.SE] oil reserves has confirmed the state oil company’s own figures, sou... More »
Investors pulled cash from stock funds and bought government bonds during the latest week, favoring a defensive stance over the risk-trading spectacle that has followed the presidential election, Lipper data for U.S.-based funds showed on Thursday. More »
People are seen behind an electronic board showing stock prices after the New Year opening ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), held to wish for the success of Japan’s stock market, in Tokyo, Japan, January 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon The dollar sli... More »
A pump jack stands idle in Dewitt County, Texas January 13, 2016. REUTERS/Anna Driver Oil ticked lower on Monday, falling for the first time in three sessions as prospects of rising U.S. production weighed on the market. More »
A helicopter is used to dry cherries at New Zealand Cherry CorpÕs orchard in Cromwell, in the South Island of New Zealand, January 18, 2016. New Zealand Cherry Corp/Handout via REUTERS New Zealand cherry producers are flying helicopters low over their orchards... More »
Small scale farmer Mutale Sikaona and agricultural officials examine maize plants affected by armyworms in Keembe district, Zambia, January 6, 2017. Picture taken January 6, 2017. REUTERS/Jean Mandela A maize pest that has devastated crops in southern Africa i... More »
Traders work at their desks in front of the German share price index, DAX board, at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, January 4, 2017. REUTERS/Staff/Remote Sterling slid to three-month lows in Asia on Monday with investors spooked anew by concerns over... More »
FILE PHOTO: A worker checks the valve of an oil pipe at the Lukoil company owned Imilorskoye oil field outside the Siberian city of Kogalym, Russia, January 25, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo Oil prices inched up on Monday, supported by a weaker dol... More »
An Alcoa aluminum plant in Alcoa, Tennessee, U.S. is seen in this April 8, 2014 file photo REUTERS/Wade Payne/File Photo Plans to provide government support to keep open a 30-year-old aluminum smelter in Australia owned by Alcoa (AA.N) have made “progress”, pa... More »
Taiwan confirmed a new bird flu case on Thursday, the fourth this year, according to a statement posted on the website of the island’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. More »
Investors in U.S.-based funds poured $4 billion into investment-grade corporate bond funds in the week ended Jan. 11, marking the funds’ biggest inflows since early February 2015, data from Thomson Reuters’ Lipper service showed on Thursday. More »
An investor looks at an electronic board showing stock information on the first trading day after the New Year holiday at a brokerage house in Shanghai, China, January 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday while crude oil prices languis... More »
A customer uses a petrol nozzle in a gas station in Nice August 8, 2012. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard Oil markets edged higher on Tuesday on expectations that at least some planned production cuts would be implemented, making a slight recovery from big losses the pre... More »
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday it had detected a type of bird flu in a wild duck in Montana that appeared to match one of the strains found during an outbreak of the disease in 2014 and 2015 that led to the deaths of millions of chickens. More »
U.S.-based taxable bond funds netted cash for the first time in four weeks, Lipper data released on Thursday showed, a sign that savers may be less wary than the Federal Reserve of inflation under the incoming Trump administration. More »
A flame rises from a chimney at Taq Taq oil field in Arbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari Oil prices rose in the first trading hours of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between OPEC and non-OPEC members to cut production, ... More »
A man looks at an electronic board showing the stock market indices of various countries outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, November 16, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Global markets marched confidently into 2017 on Tuesday, with Asian stocks extending gains after... More »
Health authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou have confirmed a new human case of H7N9 avian influenza, state radio said, bringing the total number of human infections of the highly pathogenic strain to 19 this winter. More »
Former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s leading candidate to run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump transition team official said on Mond... More »
Traders work at their desks in front of the German share price index, DAX board, at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, December 30, 2016. REUTERS/Staff/Remote Euro zone stocks opened 2017 by climbing to their highest in more than a year on Monday after ... More »
U.S. officials are urgently seeking an agreement with South Korea that would allow imports of American eggs so farmers can cash in on a shortage caused by the Asian country’s worst-ever outbreak of bird flu. More »
U.S.-based stock funds pulled in $11.8 billion in the week ended Dec. 28, data from Lipper showed on Thursday, ending 2016 with an enthusiasm for stocks that had been lacking for the better part of the year. More »
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Investors’ enthusiasm for equities and corporate bonds showed little sign of waning during the latest week, with funds in ... More »
Plants are pictured near an oil pump, owned by oil company Rosneft, in the settlement of Akhtyrskaya in Krasnodar region, southern Russia, December 21, 2014. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko Oil prices edged down on Wednesday as the market waits to see how OPEC and n... More »
Chickens are seen at a poultry farm on the outskirt of Hefei, Anhui province, China November 20, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Wuxi city in China’s eastern Jiangsu province will suspend poultry trading starting from Dec. 29 amid avian flu concerns, the cit... More »
A man looks at an electronic board showing Japan’s Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, December 1, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Asia stocks followed Wall Street higher on Wednesday, while the dollar firmed against the yen following the release ... More »
U.S.-based stock funds posted $21.6 billion in withdrawals during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, adding to a trend of outflows from actively managed mutual funds that has lasted much of the year. More »
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. December 27, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Stocks edged higher on Tuesday as trading in some of the world’s major financial markets resumed after a Christmas break... More »
A man looks at an electronic board showing the stock market indices of various countries outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, November 16, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Asian shares slipped to four-week lows on Monday as the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates a... More »
An employee at a Total fuel station waits for customers in south Jakarta February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside Oil prices rose on Monday in anticipation of tighter crude supply going into 2017 following the decision by OPEC and other producers to cut out... More »
Investors piled into stock exchange-traded funds at the fastest pace since their record-setting haul following the U.S. presidential election, Lipper said on Thursday, as policymakers raised interest rates. More »
A flag with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) logo is seen before a news conference at OPEC’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria December 10, 2016. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader Goldman Sachs said the formal agreement by non-OPEC oil produc... More »
Employers work at a construction site for an offshore oil platform in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, December 1, 2016. Picture taken December 1, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer China should set an economic growth target of around 6.5 percent for 2017, although it i... More »
A gas station attendant pumps fuel into a customer’s car at PetroChina’s petrol station in Beijing, China, March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Oil prices jumped to their highest levels in a year and a half on Monday after OPEC and non-OPEC producers agreed ... More »
An employee holds a gas pump at a petrol station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker Oil prices shot to their highest levels since mid-2015 on Monday after OPEC and other producers reached their first deal since 2001 to jointly reduc... More »
Issues causing slowness on Bloomberg LP’s terminals that began late Thursday morning had been resolved for all users by mid- afternoon, the company said. More »
South Korean health officials bury chickens at a poultry farm where the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus broke out in Haenam, South Korea, November 17, 2016. Yonhap/via REUTERS South Korea’s agriculture ministry said on Monday it will issue a temporary na... More »
An employee of a foreign exchange trading company works near monitors showing Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on TV news (top C), and the Japanese yen’s exchange rate against the euro in Tokyo, Japan, December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai The euro fell to a... More »
Rigging equipment is pictured in a field outside of Sweetwater, Texas June 4, 2015. REUTERS/Cooper Neill Oil prices fell by one percent on Monday as a higher U.S. rig count unsettled markets amid nagging concern that output cuts, planned as part of concerted a... More »
U.S. dollar notes are seen in this November 7, 2016 picture illustration. Picture taken November 7. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Investors pulled $4.1 billion from U.S.-based taxable-bond mutual funds, the most since June, as a bond selloff forced interest ... More »
Germany reported a first case of the contagious bird flu strain H5N1 on Friday on a small poultry farm in the northeastern state of Brandenburg, the state’s consumer protection ministry said. More »
An employee holds a gas pump at a petrol station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo Oil prices fell on Monday, adding to Friday’s steep losses as doubts re-emerged over the ability of major producers to agree output cuts ... More »
Men walk past an electronic board showing Japan’s Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai The dollar and U.S. bond yields fell on Monday as investors reversed a “Trumpflation” trade that has gripped markets sin... More »
Investors pulled more money from U.S.-based bond funds during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Friday, adding to an onslaught following the U.S. presidential election. More »
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump gestures from the front door at the main clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar The Obama administration signed its final plan for renewable fuel use in the... More »
Some 190,000 ducks were destroyed on Saturday at six farms in the Netherlands following an avian flu outbreak, the country’s first cull of an epidemic sweeping northern Europe. More »
The OPEC flag and the OPEC logo are seen before a news conference in Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger Oil prices rose around 1 percent on Monday as OPEC moved closer to an output cut to rein in oversupply that has pressured prices for... More »
People walk past an electronic board showing Japan’s Nikkei average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, November 16, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Asian shares were on the defensive on Monday, undermined by fears that the strength in the U.S. dollar and rising U.S... More »
Euro coins are seen in front of displayed flag and map of European Union in this picture illustration taken in Zenica, May 28 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic The euro zone has withstood several crises since 2008 that have thrown the 19-nation bloc’s very existence in... More »
The Andersons Inc said it was testing every delivery of corn for vomitoxin from Monday at its ethanol plant near Clymers, in central Indiana, according to a company website on Friday. More »
A pump jack stands idle in Dewitt County, Texas January 13, 2016. REUTERS/Anna Driver Oil fell to its lowest in three months on Monday, as the prospect of another year of oversupply and weak prices overshadowed chances that OPEC will reach a deal to cut output... More »
The German share prize index (DAX) board is seen at the trading room of Frankfurt’s stock exchange (Boerse Frankfurt) during trading session in Frankfurt Germany, October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach The U.S. dollar hit an 11-month peak on Monday as the r... More »
Investors in U.S.-based funds poured $1 billion into inflation-protected bond funds in the week ended Nov. 9, marking the funds’ second-biggest inflows since records began in October 2002, data from Thomson Reuters’ Lipper service showed on Thursday. More »
A worker takes oil samples from a well at the Gazpromneft-owned Yuzhno-Priobskoye oil field outside the West Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo Oil prices were stable on Tuesday as financial investor... More »
Cranes are seen above piles of steel pipes to be exported at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, December 1, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily/File Photo China’s exports and imports fell more than expected in October, with weak domestic and global demand a... More »
People are reflected in a display (top) showing the current exchange rate between U.S. dollar and Japanese Yen outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, November 7, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Asian stocks rose on Tuesday as world markets braced for the outcome of... More »
A fisherman repairs nets in Maputo, Mozambique, September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Grant Lee Neuenburg/File Photo Mozambique’s finance minister has a plan to deal with a debt crisis that threatens to derail one of Africa’s most promising frontier economies but invest... More »
Traders work at their desks in front of the German share price index, DAX board, at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Staff/Remote The pound jumped on Thursday after a UK court ruled that parliament must approve a government d... More »
Flames emerge from a pipeline at the oil fields in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani Oil prices fell early on Monday as Iraq said it wanted to be exempt from any deal by producer cartel OPEC to cut production to prop u... More »
People walk past an electronic board displaying various Asian countries’ stock price index and world major index outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, August 21, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo Asian stocks eked out gains but lacked clear direction on Monda... More »
U.S.-based bond funds charged back into the good graces of investors during the latest week, attracting $3.4 billion, Lipper data showed on Thursday. More »
A pumpjack drills for oil in the Monterey Shale, California, April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Oil prices fell early on Monday, pulled down by a rising rig count in the United States, a strong dollar and record OPEC-output which comes amid slowing global ... More »
FILE PHOTO – A man walks in front of a screen showing today’s movements of Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Issei Kato Asian shares fell on Monday while the dollar held firm near seven-month high after comments fr... More »
Record global debt levels pose a clear risk to oil demand, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday, citing figures from the International Monetary Fund last week that showed the world is awash with a record $152 trillion in debt. More »
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih talks during the 23rd World Energy Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, October 10, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih will not attend meetings on Wednesday between OPEC and non-OPEC... More »
A worker checks the valve of an oil pipe at an oil field owned by Russian state-owned oil producer Bashneft near the village of Nikolo-Berezovka, northwest of Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia January 28, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo Oil fell back from o... More »
A man stands next to an electronic board showing stock prices in Tokyo, Japan, August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon World shares tapped the brakes on Tuesday as oil prices eased back from their highest level of the year, while Britain’s sterling took anothe... More »
A man stands next to an electronic board showing stock prices in Tokyo, Japan, August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Major U.S. stock indexes gained on Wednesday, boosted by financial shares amid encouraging economic data and by the energy sector as oil pric... More »
