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Commodity slump piles pressure on Japan trading firms, oil refiners

TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Plunging commodity prices are expected to drive losses of around $13 billion on assets held by Japanese trading houses, oil refineries and steelmakers in the current financial year, dealing another blow to a government push to reignite growth.

Russian Economy Minister says 2016 privatisation list to be approved soon

MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said on Friday that a list of companies slated for privatisation in 2016 would be approved within days.

BG profits slip as weak prices eat into revenue

LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Britain's BG Group, in its final results update ahead of its takeover by Shell, said on Friday core earnings fell 22 percent in the fourth quarter as low energy prices ate into profits.

After rapid growth, U.S. energy MLPs running out of road

NEW YORK, Feb 5(Reuters) - Investment vehicles that funneled more than $100 billion into U.S. pipelines, storage and other facilities during the shale boom now face an existential crisis after oil tumbled so low that it upended assumptions about risks and returns they offer.

Dirt devil: Airlines filter through info on latest fuel quality issue

Those attending the Platts Middle Distillates Conference spoke a diesel-focused language, this being Europe where people mostly drive diesel cars even after the VW scandal.

Chinese New Year sees no-monkeying-around stance on steel overcapacity

The mood for many in China's steel industry will be sombre, judging from the recent slew of warnings several steelmakers have issued, predicting massive losses for 2015.

California has nearly half of the nation's solar electricity generating capacity

(Fri, 05 Feb 2016) The United States has slightly more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of solar generating capacity, which includes utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations, as well as distributed generation solar PV systems, also known as rooftop solar.

China's teapots eat into crude glut, but build Asian fuel surplus

SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Newly licensed Chinese oil importers are taking advantage of low crude prices and healthy domestic product margins, snapping up hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of a global surplus but also adding to China's swelling fuel exports.

UPDATE 2-Crude oil prices steady in thin Asian trading ahead of Lunar New Year

SINGAPORE, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Crude oil futures held steady in lacklustre trading on Friday as Asian liquidity faded ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday across large parts of the region.

Energy firm Abengoa says to miss interest payments in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The Mexican unit of Abengoa, a troubled Spanish renewable energy firm, on Thursday said it would not make its interest payment on two short-term bond issues in the local market.

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