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HOUSTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Global Partners LP has laid off 8 percent of its work force and aims to handle only ethanol, not crude, at its rail terminal in Oregon in response to the nearly 70 percent plunge in oil prices since mid-2014, the company said on Thursday.

NEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Oil market analysts on Thursday largely dismissed the possibility of coordinated production cuts by OPEC and Russia, saying the market's early positive reaction was based on false hope.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA will recommend to its board that no dividend is paid to shareholders this year because of the slump in commodity prices, the company said on Thursday.

The California Public Utilities Commission in a Jan. 28 open meeting voted 3-2 to approve a net metering success program for rooftop solar in the state.

During the meeting, Commissioner Michael Picker, president of the CPUC, said the successor program maintains a full retail net energy metering structure that allows all customers to receive full credit for renewable energy that they export to the grid, but also establishes mandatory time of use rates for those customers.

NEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The two-year slide in energy company shares has produced wildly inflated dividend yields - a sign of more pain to come for investors who already have suffered the effects of a historic slide in crude prices.

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Potash Corp of Saskatchewan forecast its bleakest year in a decade and slashed its dividend, due to tanking fertilizer prices.

PARIS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - France and Iran hailed the sale of Airbus planes and the renewal of a decades-old carmaking venture as symbols of thawing relations on Thursday while protesters in Paris tried to get human rights onto the agenda.

Jan 28 (Reuters) - California, which boasts more than half of the households with solar panels in the United States, on Thursday extended a policy that has underpinned the rooftop solar industry's dramatic growth over the last decade.

TORONTO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Canadian arm of mining giant BHP Billiton has signed a letter of intent to help fund exploration at Aston Bay Holdings Ltd's Storm copper project, Aston Bay said on Thursday.

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