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Recent Articles by Mark Brooks

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

U.S. Rig Count Drops by 13 to 1,758

1,371 rigs were exploring for oil and 379 for gas.

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Airlines, Pilots Sue Feds Over Controller Cuts

Seeking to block furloughs scheduled to start Sunday.

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Oil Slightly Higher After Recent Sharp Drops

The national average for a gallon of regular fell about half a cent at $3.51 a gallon.

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

SAP CEO: Cloud Computing Business Profitable

Expected to more than double by 2015.

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Fitch Cuts Britain's Bond Rating

Fitch estimates the U.K. economy is not expected to reach its 2007 level of real GDP until 2014.

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Poll Shows Americans' Economic Pessimism

46 percent of Americans approve of Obama's handling of the economy while 52 percent disapprove.

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Aquatech Opens New Plant to Treat Marcellus Shale Waste

Treated wastewater can be reused in other wells, thus reducing the amount of fresh water that drillers use to fracture, or stimulate, well production.

Apr 19, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Nissan Recalls SUVs to Fix Brake Problem

Recall affects Nissan Pathfinder and Infiniti JX SUVs from the 2013 model year.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Money Market Fund Assets Fall to $2.595 Trillion

Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell $1.89 billion to $903.56 billion, the Washington-based mutual fund trade group said Thursday.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Gold Rises; Corn Falls as Export Sales Disappoint

May corn dropped 16 cents, or 2.4 percent, to close at $6.445 a bushel Thursday.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

IMF Chief Says Global Pro-Growth Policies Needed

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says the United States and many countries in Europe need to focus more on growth and less on trimming budget balances this year.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Macy's Request for Restraining Order Denied by Judge

Thursday's decision made by New York Appeals Judge Richard Andrias offers Penney a short-term reprieve until an appellate panel of five judges makes the decision on that issue.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Oil Rises Near $88; Natural Gas Jumps 4 Percent

By early afternoon in New York, benchmark oil for May delivery was up $1.26, or 1.6 percent, to $87.94 a barrel.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Senate Panel Backs Moniz for Energy Chief

The energy panel voted 21-1 Thursday to endorse Moniz, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

EU Aims to Get U.S. Trade Deal by Next Year

Commissioner Karel de Gucht told reporters after a meeting of the 27-nation bloc's trade ministers in Dublin that the talks with Washington should be concluded by October 2014, when the term of the European Commission ends and a month before U.S. holds midterm elections.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Swiss to Hold Referendum on Gold Reserves

The Federal Chancellery in the capital, Bern, said Thursday that the initiative known as "Save Our Swiss Gold" had gained more than the required 100,000 signatures to force a vote among Swiss citizens within the next few years.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

U.S. Natural Gas Supplies Grew Last Week

The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reported that natural gas in storage grew by 31 billion cubic feet to 1.704 trillion cubic feet for the week ended April 12.

Apr 18, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Labor Nominee Perez Pledges Open Mind

Perez also pledges to continue the Labor Department's aggressive enforcement of safety, wage, and hour laws.

Apr 17, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Copper Leads Decline on Weak Economic Outlook

Copper fell 11.8 cents to $3.1875 a pound, a drop of 3.6 percent.

Apr 17, 2013 by Mark Brooks

Greece: Former Finance Minister Granted Bail

Court officials said Wednesday that Yannos Papantoniou's wife, Stavroula Kourakou, was also granted bail of €20,000 ($26,000).

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