PetroChina says its chairman, Jiang Jiemin, not seen in public for some weeks, is participating in company meetings, quashing social media rumors that he is seriously ill or had fled the country.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a key Obama administration rule to reduce harmful emissions from coal-burning power plants, sparking arally in coal company shares and relief among utility firms.
Georgia, the center of U.S.poultry production, is adding its voice to a string of states asking Washington to help ease pressure on corn prices by suspending rules that send a large share of the crop to produce ethanol.
China-based Trina Solar Ltd cut its full-year forecast for solar panel shipments and said it expects margins to shrink further in the current quarter asprices continue to slump.
China's leading offshore oil producer said its first-half net profit fell by almost a fifth - twice as much as the market had expected - and it cut its dividend by 40% to make room for its $15.1billion acquisition of Canadian oil firm Nexen Inc.
China's Commerce Ministry said on Monday the United States must cut support for six government-backed renewable energy programmes or face unspecified penalties, in the latest trade dispute between the world's two largest economies.
Ukraine has selected a consortium led by ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell to develop its Skifska gas and oil field in the Black Sea, a government minister said on Wednesday.
