Tag: commodities
Scramble on for New Fuel Routes After Colonial Pipeline Hack
(Associated Press) State and federal officials are scrambling to find alternate routes to deliver gasoline in the Southeast U.S. after a hack of the...
FBI Identifies Pipeline Cyberattack Culprits; Service May Be Back by Weekend
(Associated Press) Hit by a cyberattack, the operator of a major U.S. fuel pipeline said it hopes to have services mostly restored by the...
Western States Prepare for Possible Water Shortage Declaration
(Associated Press) The man-made lakes that store water supplying millions of people in the U.S. West and Mexico are projected to shrink to historic...
Biofuels Producers, Farmers Not Sold on Switch to Electric
(Associated Press) The president and auto industry maintain the nation is on the cusp of a gigantic shift to electric vehicles and away from...
Energy Sector Seen as Big Winner After Disastrous 2020
(Associated Press) Energy companies spent the first quarter of 2021 recharging from a draining year. Wall Street expects that growth to continue as energy...
Why Is Biden Halting Federal Oil and Gas Sales?
(Associated Press) President Joe Biden shut down oil and gas lease sales from the nation's vast public lands and waters in his first days...
Push to Prevent Next Meat Shortage Hits Big Obstacle
(Associated Press) Sudden meat shortages last year because of the coronavirus led to millions of dollars in federal grants to help small meat processors...
Spiking Energy Leads Wholesale Prices Up 0.5% in February
(Associated Press) Energy prices continued to rocket higher in February, though overall wholesale prices moderated after a record jump in January.
The Labor Department's producer...
Backwardation and Other Evidence of a Silver Supply Squeeze
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) The effort to squeeze silver shorts may appear to have fizzled, but naked short sellers are as vulnerable as...
Court Rules Against Apaches in Bid to Halt Proposed Mine
(Associated Press) A federal judge has rejected a request from a group of Apaches to keep the U.S. Forest Service from transferring a parcel...
