By Curtis Williams HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. natural gas demand from LNG plants hit a record on Tuesday, the last day of the year, climbing to 15.2 billion cubic feed (bcf) in a sign of a strong year ahead from the startup of two new gas-processing plants, preliminary data from financial firm LSEG showed. U.S….
By Manya Saini (Reuters) – Bitcoin more than doubled in 2024 driven by the U.S. markets regulator’s approval for exchange-traded funds tied to its spot price, and optimism over easing regulatory hurdles with Donald Trump set to return to the White House. The world’s largest and most well-known cryptocurrency hit $100,000 earlier this month, a…
New York (AP) — A new year is the time to set new goals. Yet studies have shown that most people don’t tend to uphold their New Year’s resolutions much past the first month. In an attempt to reframe the thinking around new year goal-setting, a new wellness trend has popped up online. It’s called…
By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got up from his hospital bed to call on unruly coalition partners to fall in line and back his government’s 2025 budget after hardline rebels threatened to pull support for the bill. Netanyahu, recovering from prostate surgery, came to the Knesset against the recommendation…
SHARPSBURG, Pa. (AP) — When did we know for sure? Was it April, when Nature Made introduced its pickle-flavored gummy vitamins? Was it November, when Petco’s “Pickle Mania” promotion offered 26 different pickle-themed toys for dogs and cats? Maybe it was the December day that a food scholar was heard to utter, “Everyone can kind…
Investing.com — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is facing a proposed class action lawsuit, alleging that the company violated federal law by misusing nearly $350 million in forfeited 401(k) funds. The suit claims that Amazon used these funds to offset its own contributions, rather than to reduce administrative fees for over 20,000 participants. The lawsuit was filed in…
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) – BMW (ETR:BMWG) and Yamaha Motor have invested in U.S.-based rare earths processing startup Phoenix Tailings, the latest move by manufacturers to boost production of the strategic metals outside of China. Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion for electric vehicles,…
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s gas transit operator said Russia had not nominated any gas flows for Jan. 1 through the Ukrainian pipeline to Europe as of 1500 GMT on Tuesday, hours ahead of the expiration of a five-year contract between Gazprom (MCX:GAZP) and Ukraine’s Naftogaz. Despite being at war with Russia, Ukraine still transited Russian gas…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine are set to end on New Year’s Day, bringing down the curtain on Moscow’s long period of dominance of supply in the European gas market. Russia’s oldest gas export route to Europe – a pipeline dating back to Soviet days – was set to shut at…
(Reuters) – Shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk has urged customers to pick up their laden containers and return the empty ones at the U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports before Jan. 15 to mitigate potential disruptions at the terminals on account of a strike. “The conditional agreement on wages is set to expire on Jan. 15….
