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--Clyde Russell is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own.--

Lawrence Summers famously wrote, “there are idiots, look around” in an attack on the theory that markets are rational. What some have called “Summers’ Law” certainly applies to the markets’ response to the slide in the price of oil as it relates to stocks of renewable energy companies.

MOGADISHU, May 6 (Reuters) - Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in Mogadishu on Wednesday and, in a separate attack, bombed an African Union troop convoy outside the Somali capital, police and a spokesman for the group said.

MOGADISHU, May 6 (Reuters) - Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and a spokesman for the group said.

Platts editors look at big iron ore miners' revisions in output targets and expansion plans, as well as the the impact of China's resource tax change on the iron ore industry.

WILLISTON, N.D., May 6 (Reuters) - Aiming to show the human side of North Dakota's oil industry, the Smithsonian Channel's "Boomtowners" chronicles the highs and lows of transplants to one of the nation's fastest-growing economies.

CAIRO, May 6 (Reuters) - Planes from a Saudi-led coalition struck Yemeni provinces near the Saudi border overnight, killing at least 43 civilians, Houthi sources said, as 22 aid agencies warned that fuel shortages could halt their work.

PERTH, May 6 (Reuters) - Newly formed mining and metals group South32 is open to acquisitions once it breaks from BHP Billiton , its CEO-elect Graham Kerr said on Wednesday.

BEIJING, May 6 (Reuters) - Chinese state nuclear firm China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) said on Wednesday it is open to all forms of an alliance with loss-making nuclear group Areva as the French firm restructures.

SINGAPORE/MELBOURNE, May 6 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto, the most profitable iron ore producer, is in a strong position to keep its mines running at full tilt, even as rivals BHP Billiton and Brazil's Vale apply the brakes in a market suffering a supply glut.

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