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EUROPE POWER-Higher supply outlook weighs on next week's prices

FRANKFURT, Aug 5 (Reuters) - European prompt power prices
for early next week traded down on Friday on improved renewable
and thermal supply prospects, traders said.

RPT-Private equity funds eye ending drought in U.S. energy IPOs -sources

NEW YORK, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Private equity funds are looking to sell shares in two U.S.
energy companies, people familiar with the plans said this week, deals that could end a
year-long drought for Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the oil and gas sector.

Four-month hangover from Singapore fuel oil party finally ends

SINGAPORE, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Singapore's long hangover from
a near-record fuel oil trading binge in March is ending as
tonnage traded that month and held offshore moves into landed
tanks, signalling a tighter market in the world's biggest
trading hub for the shipping fuel.

Trafigura extends credit to China teapots to boost crude sales -sources

* Clinches deals with Shandong refiners Shouguang Luqing,
Huifeng
* Crude oil came from Latin America
* Deals seen as riskier, but profitable

As Yahoo Messenger shuts down, oil traders bid a fond farewell

SINGAPORE, Aug 5 (Reuters) - As European and American
markets open on Friday, oil traders face a new era with Yahoo
Messenger, the main tool used by traders to communicate since
the late 1990s, shutting down.

RPT-Egypt's solar power upset clouds outlook for foreign investors

CAIRO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - When Egypt announced plans to
develop renewable power in 2014, investors piled in, drawn by
year-round sunshine and chronic electricity shortages. Two years
on, many projects have stalled, hitting confidence among foreign
investors Egypt sorely needs.

UPDATE 1-Glencore halts Zambia copper mine output after deaths

LUSAKA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Glencore's Zambian Mopani
Copper Mines (MCM) has halted production at all its operations
after four miners were killed in separate accidents, a company
official said on Friday.

UPDATE 2-Idemitsu may buy smaller stake in Showa Shell to counter opposition -Nikkei

* Smaller stake purchase may counter Idemitsu family's
plan-Nikkei

UPDATE 1-Malaysia's June exports post surprise jump as US demand picks up

* Exports to China -20.3 pct y/y, U.S. +22.0 pct, EU +4.1
pct

What is the human cost of restructuring China’s steel industry?

Little attention has been given to what the number of people expected to be laid off says about staffing levels in the China’s steel industry.

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