Energy
Argentine cash controls bring bargains, headaches
The Brazilian visitors gawk in wonder as they stroll past shop windows along touristy Florida street in the Argentine capital. The jackets, the shoes — they're all so cheap when your purse is stuffed with black-market money. Visitors who turn to the streets rather than the banks to swap their ...
Vt. and Quebec announce electric car corridor
Starting this fall, people who drive electric vehicles should be able to travel the 138-mile route between Burlington and Montreal without worrying they'll run short of a charge thanks to a planned electric vehicle charging corridor, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois announced in Montreal. Initially the ...
Oil prices climb above $98 before US Fed meeting
The price of oil climbed back above $98 a barrel Tuesday, a day after briefly touching a nine-month high, as traders awaited the start of a Federal Reserve policy meeting. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for July delivery was up 37 cents to $98.14 a barrel in electronic ...
Chevron secures Iraqi Kurdish oil deal
U.S. oil giant Chevron says it has signed a deal with Iraq's Kurdish regional government to expand its oil exploration territory in the northern self-rule region. The California-based company said in a statement emailed Tuesday that it acquired the rights to hunt in the Qara Dagh exploration block, which is ...
Tesoro announces $75M sale of Hawaii refinery
Tesoro Corp. said Monday it has agreed to sell its refining operations in Hawaii to Par Petroleum Corp. for $75 million plus the market value of its working capital. The San Antonio, Texas-based company said Par Petroleum agreed to continue running Tesoro Hawaii LLC as a refining, logistics and retail ...
Business Highlights
___ Food companies work to make it look natural NEW YORK (AP) — Here's the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection. When stretching out the dough for its premium "Artisan Pizzas," Domino's workers are instructed not to worry about making the rectangles too perfect: The pies ...
Official: Solar plane to help energy use on ground
The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. When it's in flight, there's no roar of jet engines. It's strangely quiet. And as it crisscrosses America, the spindly plane doesn't use a drop of fuel. Day, and ...
Soybeans drop as weather boosts crop prospects
Soybeans dropped as improving weather across the Midwest boosted the outlook for this year's crop. November soybeans fell 12.75 cents, or 1 percent, to $12.855 a bushel Monday. Cold, wet weather forced farmers to delay their soybean planting this spring, keeping prices for the crop higher over the past two ...
Soybeans drop as weather boosts crop prospects
Soybeans dropped as improving weather across the Midwest boosted the outlook for this year's crop. November soybeans fell 12.75 cents, or 1 percent, to $12.855 a bushel Monday. Cold, wet weather forced farmers to delay their soybean planting this spring, keeping prices for the crop higher over the past two ...
Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials
Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 17 Supreme Court's gene patent ruling was overdue It seems obvious that a company shouldn't hold a patent on something that the human body produces. Proprietary patents, after all, protect the exclusive rights to make, use or sell a creation or invention — not something that ...
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