After approaching record highs, stock markets tumbled last week over fears of a global slowdown. What next for the equity sugar rush?

By Jan Harvey LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices are looking even more vulnerable after April's price crash, as rampant inflation expected from successive rounds of monetary easing fails to materialise. The ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece agreed to change some terms in the planned privatisation of natural gas distributor DEPA, opening the way for Russian energy giant Gazprom to bid for the firm, a senior official ...

(Adds table) KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 (Reuters) - Exports of Malaysian palm oil products from May 1 to 25 fell 5.2 percent to 1,064,925 tonnes from 1,123,129 tonnes shipped during April 1 to 25, cargo surveyor ...

REUTERS - Canadian oil and natural gas producer Niko Resources Ltd (NKO.TO) said on Friday it made a significant gas discovery, along with its partners, in the KG-D6 block off India's east coast, sending ...

Reuters Market Eye - The government will release January-March quarter GDP on Friday, which is expected to confirm the economy grew at its slowest pace in a decade in the 2012/13 fiscal year. GDP data ...

BP, Shell and Statoil have been named in a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged oil price rigging, following the launch of a European Commission investigation into the oil giants.

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets slipped on Friday over worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb a stimulus program that has lifted stocks, while the dollar recovered against ...

(L-R) Barrick Gold Corporation head executives stand with Dominican President Danilo Medina in Santo Domingo on May 8, 2013. Chile's environmental authorities slapped a $16.4 million fine Friday on Canadian ...

Chile's environmental authorities have fined the world's largest gold miner $16.4m for "serious" violations at its unfinished mine near the border with Argentina.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets edged lower on Friday on worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb its stimulus program, while the dollar recovered against the euro to trade flat after better-than-expected ...

Global equity markets slipped on Friday over worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb a stimulus program that has lifted stocks, while the dollar recovered against the euro after better-than-expected ...

* St. John's gasoline unit outage supports prices * U.S. equities lend some support * High U.S. supplies, Fed bond buying concerns weigh (Updates prices, adds details.) By Jeanine Prezioso NEW YORK, May ...

* Gold boosted this week by drop in stock markets, falling dollar * Fed official dampens talk Fed policy may soon tighten * Largest physical gold fund sees fresh outflow (Recasts, updates prices, adds ...

Next week will get off to a slow start, due to the Spring Bank holiday in the UK and the Memorial Day holiday Stateside, although the macroeconomic data flow will accelerate towards the end of the same, ...

* Coming up: Commitment of traders data at 4:30 p.m. EDT * St. John's gasoline unit outage supports prices (Updates prices) NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose in late afternoon trading in New ...

By Jan Harvey LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices are looking even more vulnerable after April's price crash, as rampant inflation expected from successive rounds of monetary easing fails to materialise. The ...

By Silvia Antonioli LONDON (Reuters) - Mid-sized producer Jindal Steel and Power (JNSP.NS) hopes to quadruple steel output by 2016 to cash in on an infrastructure boom in the world's second most populous ...

Big industrial metals users are leaning heavily on the London Metal Exchange to fix its controversial metal storage system, although they have limited alternatives to relying on the exchange's global benchmark ...

LONDON--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- The liquefied natural gas (LNG) market is poised to undergo remarkable changes, with a bountiful of both import and export capacities to come on-stream during the next decade. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission expects to complete a review by October of ways to help Europe's struggling aluminium industry, looking at policies such as on import duties and long-term power ...

With market sentiment still fragile following the heavy sell-off of the past two days, defensive sectors were thriving on Friday as investors refrained from taking risk ahead of the long weekend.

Canadian oil and natural gas producer Niko Resources Ltd said on Friday it made a significant gas discovery, along with its partners, in the KG-D6 block off India's east coast, sending its shares up 26 ...

The mining and commodities group created by the recent merger of Glencore and Xstrata is kicking off the sale of a £4bn Peruvian project demanded by China's government to secure approval for their deal. ...

Alkane Energy, the AIM-listed independent gas-to-power company, has completed the acquisition of certain of the coal mine methane assets of Yorkshire-based Maltby Colliery and associated 6.0m pounds gross ...

* Shrinking factory activity in China limits oil demand growth * Rosy US economic data raise worries Fed may end stimulus soon * Gasoline demand over US summer driving season may disappoint (Updates prices, ...

British spot gas prices remained near mid-winter levels on Friday as medium-range storage sites had to inject into the system after a week of disruption in flows from Norwegian gasfields. The price of ...

* Gold boosted this week by drop in stock markets * Fed official dampens talk Fed policy may tighten * Largest physical gold fund sees fresh outflow (Updates prices, adds comment) By Jan Harvey LONDON, ...

* Shrinking factory activity in China limits oil demand growth * Rosy U.S. economic data raise worries Fed may end stimulus soon * Gasoline demand over U.S. summer driving season may disappoint (Adds quote, ...

A series of copper mine shutdowns and supply logjams has prompted some analysts to scale down forecasts for a market surplus, but it would take more disruptions to swing the market into a deficit. "People ...

Lightning illuminates the sky over a wind farm near the German city of Jacobsdorf, on May 9, 2013

DUBLIN--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/j7k2dm/iran_storage ) has announced the addition of the "Iran Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 ...

Sinopec subsidiary Addax Petroleum wants to buy more North Sea assets this year, its Chief Executive said, in a sign that Chinese firms may further boost their regional investments after two multi-billion ...