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SE Asia Stocks-Mixed as investors await BOJ, Fed decisions

By Aparajita Saxena
Sept 20 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian markets ended mixed on
Tuesday as uncertainty over policy moves by the U.S. Federal
Reserve and the Bank of Japan kept investors on the sidelines.
The Federal Open Market Committee is expected to stand pat
on interest rates, while the BOJ is expected to make crucial
changes to its easing programme.
A Reuters poll of economists found on Tuesday that the BOJ

EU auditor sees nuclear decommissioning funds shortfall

BRUSSELS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - European Union plans for
financing the decommissioning of nuclear plants in Bulgaria,
Lithuania and Slovakia are inadequate and more resources need to
be put aside, the European Court of Auditors said in a report.

CGT union calls for strike at French power grid operator RTE

PARIS, Sept 20 (Reuters) - France's CGT trade union on
Tuesday called its members to down tools at power grid operator
RTE on Sept. 21 to protest the planned sale of about half of the
stake in the company held by state-controlled utility EDF
.

European shares inch lower on weaker energy stocks

LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - European shares edged lower in
early trading on Tuesday dragged by weaker energy shares on the
back of lower crude oil prices.

India set to buy Iran oil for emergency reserves -sources

* BPCL, MRPL set to buy Iran oil for national reserves
-sources

COLUMN-Coal's cost advantage over LNG slipping, but not yet enough: Russell

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Thermal coal has
been one of the commodity success stories this year, but there
is a risk that it becomes a victim of its own success by eating
into its advantage over liquefied natural gas (LNG) in
generating electricity.

Chicago jet fuel can be hazardous to your hair

Instead of the relatively ho-hum day-to-day ups and downs that pass for normal in the world of buying and selling commodities, those who deal in jet fuel in the Chicago area have had to familiarize themselves with terms enough to make market players pull their hair out.

EIA provides daily summary of Southern California energy conditions

(Tue, 20 Sep 2016) The U.S. Energy Information Administration now provides a report with daily information on Southern California energy markets, the <em>Southern California Daily Energy Report</em>, to help give context to the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage situation.

China freezes Trafigura's investment in copper smelter as part of oil probe

BEIJING, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The Chinese authorities have
frozen part of commodity trader Trafigura's investment in a
Chinese copper smelter as part of a years-long probe into the
Swiss firm's oil trading, according to documents from the police
and banks reviewed by Reuters.

Making Money with Batteries

Venture capital investments in the energy storage sector topped $175 million in the first half of 2016, according to Mercom Capital Group, whose analysis shows that lithium-ion and sodium-based batteries received the lion's share of that money.

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