Category: Industry

Oil Prices Rise 1% As OPEC+ Delays Output Increase

Oil prices rose nearly 1% on Thursday, amid a larger-than-expected drawdown in US inventories and OPEC+ delaying an output increase.

Brent crude futures rose 89 cents, or 1.2%, to $73.59 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures …

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Hunger Reaches Highest Point in US in Decade

Hunger reached its highest point in the United States in nearly a decade last year, with 18 million households, or 13.5%, struggling at some point to secure enough food, US Department of Agriculture report released on Wednesday said.

Hunger has been …

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Japanese Stocks Close Trading in Decline

Japanese stocks closed down 1.05 percent at the close of trading Thursday, after the Nikkei index fell more than 4 percent at the end of Wednesday’s session, after official data showed that wages continued to grow in July by 0.4 percent from the previ…

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