* U.S., European cold snap to be short-lived * Unusually warm weather has so far dominated winter * U.S.
BANGKOK, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Most Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Wednesday as end-year portfolio buying lifted the Malaysian index to a more than two-month high and Thai stocks to a near two-week high, with energy shares leading the pack after oil prices rebounded overnight. The Kuala Lumpur composite index rose 0.8 percent to 1,699.59, the highest since Oct. 27.
MANILA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The Philippines is set to join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, describing it as a "promising institution" that could help accelerate the country's economic growth.
* U.S., European cold snap to be short-lived * Unusually warm weather has so far dominated winter By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Crude oil futures fell around half a dollar early on Wednesday as the market remained under pressure from slowing demand and high supplies, while forecasts that a cold snap in Europe and the United States would be short-lived also hurt prices. Crude prices have plunged by two-thirds since mid-2014 as soaring output from the Organiza
NV Energy’s Jack McGinley recently put the U.S. geothermal industry’s current challenge in succinct terms: Geothermal is not competing with solar PV on cost, and when it comes to utility power procurements, “low cost wins.”
NEW YORK, Dec 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some of New York's most iconic hotels, comprising more than 11,000 guest rooms, promised to cut their carbon footprints on Tuesday and join a city effort to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.
Dec 29 (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's economic activity index (EAI) fell 0.5 percent year-on-year in November, driven by drops in cement sales and gasoline consumption, according to data released on Tuesday by the U.S. commonwealth's Government Development Bank (GDB).
ET Solar subsidiary ET Solutions Istanbul has completed the construction and grid connection of its first two Turkish solar PV plants, each with a capacity of 1.1 MW.
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