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--- Supreme Court won't stop NY's Internet taxation WASHINGTON (AP) — On perhaps the busiest online shopping day of the year, the Supreme Court refused to wade into a dispute over state sales taxes...
View ArticleBusiness report: Oil prices edge higher in post-holiday trading
Connect With Us Facebook Twitter E-Newsletters RSS Feeds Mobile Text Alerts My Yahoo! The Bottom Line Top financial priority for consumers: keeping up with the bills As we head into the Christmas...
View ArticleEditorial: A Trucking Fuel Update
Tweet Print This This Editorial appears in the Dec. 2 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. It looks like the recent run of lower fuel prices is at an end. As we report on...
View ArticlePioneering offshore wind project faces deadlines
BOSTON — As it seeks investors, a project off the Massachusetts coast that aims to be the nation’s first offshore wind farm must reach fast-approaching benchmarks or risk missing out on hundreds of...
View ArticleNumber of homeless Mass. families in hotels surges
GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) The number of homeless Massachusetts families being placed by the state in motels and hotels has surged to an all-time high, driven in part by cuts in state and federal...
View ArticleFill 'er up: The average price of a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline in...
Connect With Us Facebook Twitter E-Newsletters RSS Feeds Mobile Text Alerts My Yahoo! The Bottom Line Top financial priority for consumers: keeping up with the bills As we head into the Christmas...
View ArticleDiesel Takes Second Straight Increase; Gas Sees First Drop in 3 Weeks
Tweet Print This Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs Diesel’s national average price rose for a second straight week, gaining 3.9 cents to $3.883 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Dec. 2. Gasoline fell...
View ArticleMore efficient ways to power our flights (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) As countries try to protect their domestic air carriers from a European Union proposal that would put a price on the emissions they release over...
View ArticleRPT-Ethanol cut may drive down U.S. corn prices, drive up subsidies
* Lower ethanol mandate adds to low-price, corn subsidy brew * After record high, era of lower corn price is forecast * Large subsidies if farm-gate price falls to $4 a bushel By Charles Abbott...
View ArticleEthanol cut may drive down U.S. corn prices, drive up subsidies
* Lower ethanol mandate adds to low-price, corn subsidy brew * After record high, era of lower corn price is forecast * Large subsidies if farm-gate price falls to $4 a bushel By Charles Abbott...
View ArticleJet fuel price hiked by nearly one per cent
India's largest fuel retailer Indian Oil announced a 0.81% increase in the price of jet fuel in New Delhi region, effective from Saturday midnight. According to IOC, the aviation turbine fuel (ATF)...
View ArticleGas prices increase
Less than two weeks ago regular unleaded gasoline sold for $3.09 a gallon at the Racetrac on Campbell Drive in Homestead....
View ArticleSo much for the drop in gas prices: WNY trend is higher again
Thinkstock.com Staff Business First Gasoline prices had been falling in Western New York in recent weeks, but the trend has reversed. The cost of a gallon of gas has ticked up a couple of cents since...
View ArticleGas debt hit as banks lose government guarantees
The fading notion that the largest US finance companies are too big to fail led Moody's Investors Service to cut ratings on US$5.5 billion of bank-backed debt used to buy natural gas. Investors see...
View ArticleWhere Fracking Falls Short
BOSTON—Cold weather created a perfect storm here last winter, with demand for natural gas peaking just as supplies ran low, sending prices soaring as New Englanders attempted to keep their homes warm...
View ArticleLower gas prices lift hopes for holiday sales
WASHINGTON — No one begs Santa Claus for cheaper gasoline. Yet falling gas prices are shaping up as an unexpected gift for drivers — and for people on their holiday shopping lists. The average price...
View ArticleSuppliers say Pa. fuel tax hike to hit pump prices
Pennsylvania's new transportation law will raise fuel taxes Jan. 1 and companies that supply gas and diesel in Pennsylvania say razor-thin profit margins leave them little choice but to pass on the...
View ArticleGas prices down across the state
To start the new week after spending money on Thanksgiving meals and Black Friday shopping, Ohioans can...
View ArticleHousing supply still restricted as booming demand raises prices across the...
DESPITE renewed activity in the property market, the number of houses for sale in the UK has actually fallen over the past six month, according to a new survey of estate agents and surveyors. Figures...
View ArticleAustralian gold production increases despite declining price
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Gold production in Australia rose for the second consecutive quarter during the three months to September, despite the lower gold prices, mining consultancy Surbiton...
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