NEW YORK — Shoppers increased their spending in May as temperatures warmed and gasoline prices cooled. Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.9%, up from a revised 0.4% gain…
Read more Retail sales up 0.9% in May as the weather improved and gasoline prices cooledCNN — Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq,…
Read more Kurdish People Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here’s a look at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The purpose of OPEC is to “coordinate and unify the petroleum…
Read more OPEC Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here is a look at the life of former US Secretary of State and ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson. Birth date: March 23, 1952 Birth place: Wichita…
Read more Rex Tillerson Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here’s a look at oil spill disasters. Spill estimates vary by source. 1. January 1991 – During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million…
Read more Oil Spills Fast Facts | CNNLondon CNN — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees better odds that central banks will manage to tame inflation without tipping the global economy into recession, but it…
Read more The IMF sees greater chance of a ‘soft landing’ for the global economy | CNN BusinessNew York CNN — Stocks tumbled Tuesday after a slew of economic data stoked fears about the US economy’s cloudy outlook and further interest rate hikes from the…
Read more Dow tumbles by more than 400 points, on pace for biggest one-day decline since March | CNN BusinessWashington, DC CNN — US retail sales picked in August, boosted by higher gas prices, as spending on other items grew modestly. Retail sales, which are adjusted for…
Read more US retail spending picked up in August, mostly due to sales at gas stations | CNN BusinessCNN — The Biden administration announced Wednesday it will cancel seven Trump-era oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and protect more than 13 million…
Read more Biden administration cancels years-long attempt to drill in Alaska National Wildlife Refuge | CNN PoliticsCNN — Dozens of firefighters are working to put out a blaze that is burning at an oil depot in St. Petersburg, Russian authorities said. Videos from the…
Read more Fire consumes oil depot in St. Petersburg | CNNA version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio…
Read more Hurricane Idalia and Labor Day could send gas prices and inflation higher | CNN BusinessCNN — The people of Ecuador are heading to the polls – but they’re voting for more than just a new president. For the first time in history,…
Read more Ecuador votes in historic referendum on oil extraction in the Amazon | CNNEditor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. CNN…
Read more Inside efforts to avert environmental ‘catastrophe’ in the Red Sea | CNNLondon CNN — When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a slew of Western companies left in protest. But some of the world’s biggest…
Read more The risks are rising for Western firms in Russia. So why are so many staying put? | CNN BusinessCNN — Jesse Short Bull grew up a mile from an Indian reservation in South Dakota not realizing the ground he was stepping on was once soaked with…
Read more The fight for the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota takes center stage in the documentary ‘Lakota Nation vs. United States’ | CNNCNN — At least 31 people are dead and seven injured in the Chinese city of Yinchuan, in northwest Ningxia region, after a gas explosion at a barbecue…
Read more 31 dead after gas explosion at barbecue restaurant in China | CNNHelena, Montana CNN — It’s a Big Sky story fit for a big screen. On one side: 16 kids from ranches, reservations and tourist boomtowns across Montana –…
Read more The ‘climate kids’ want a court to force Montana’s state government to go green | CNNNew York CNN — US oil prices dropped below $70 a barrel Tuesday on concerns about whether the debt ceiling deal will make it through Congress and on…
Read more US oil prices sink below $70 on debt ceiling jitters and Russia-Saudi tensions | CNN BusinessLondon CNN — The waters of the Bay of Lakonikos, on the south-eastern side of Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula, are a bright turquoise color. Its shores are an important…
Read more Russia’s shadowy energy trade is raising fears of a devastating oil spill | CNN BusinessCNN — Germany’s final three nuclear power plants close their doors on Saturday, marking the end of the country’s nuclear era that has spanned more than six decades.…
Read more ‘A new era’: Germany quits nuclear power, closing its final three plants | CNN
