BY CHRIS KAHN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
While manufacturers shuttered factories and Americans cut way back on travel, oil prices surged a stunning 124 percent during a long stretch earlier this year. Gasoline prices followed, rising nearly a dollar a gallon, with price increases…
BY EDMUND L. ANDREWS
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The country’s top regulator of commodity markets said Tuesday that the government should “seriously consider” strict limits on the trades of purely financial investors in the futures markets for oil, natural gas and…
Peabody Energy Corp. CEO Gregory Boyce told an audience at the Cambridge Energy Research Associates conference in Houston that the world’s coal markets are becoming more interconnected as energy demand soars and countries look for alternatives to costlier petroleum.
Boyce was Thursday’s lunch…
