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Oil slid from the highest close in more than two months as investors sold contracts on speculation that recent gains were excessive amid signs of weakening demand in the U.S, the world’s biggest consumer of crude.
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By Ben Sharples |
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Rhode Island’s gasoline prices rose 6 cents this week, according to AAA Southern New England.
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By PBN Staff
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Prices of goods imported into the U.S. rose in August for the first time in five months as the cost of petroleum surged.
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By Michelle Jamrisko |
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U.S. stock-index futures climbed, indicating the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will rise from its highest level since 2007, as markets rallied around the world on the Federal Reserve’s bond-purchase program.
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By Inyoung Hwang |
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A healthy employee is a happy employee.
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By Victor Paul Alvarez |
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Exports from Rhode Island plunged 23.1 percent in May, following a 7.4 percent increase in April, according to an international trade statistics report from e-forecasting.com.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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Rhode Island’s gasoline prices rose 6 cents this week, according to AAA Southern New England. The cost of self-serve, unleaded regular averaged $3.69 per gallon in the Ocean State – up 6 cents from last week and 21 cents over the last month – according to the trade group’s weekly survey of Rhode Island’s pump prices.
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U.S. stocks fell, following a two- week decline in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as data showed American manufacturing contracted in August, fueling concern the economic recovery is slowing.
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By Rita Nazareth and Lu Wang |
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Following a drop of 1.9 percent in June, an index of America’s leading economic indicators gained 1 percent in July.
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By PBN Staff
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Rhode Island’s gasoline price dropped 4 cents this week in the 11th consecutive week of declines, according to AAA Southern New England.
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By PBN Staff |