Energy Update

BANGKOK, April 9 (Reuters) - Most Southeast Asian stock markets were flat-to-weaker on Thursday as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of the earnings season, with the Thai index eking out small gains in thin-volume trade before a long market holiday next week. The Thai SET index edged up 0.09 percent, with about 2.5 billion shares changing hands -- 20 percent of the full-day average over the past 30 sessions.

SYDNEY, April 9 (Reuters) - An investigation by Australia's Anti-Dumping Commission into solar panel imports from China found that the domestic industry wasn't significantly hurt by the purchases, making it likely the probe would be wound up without any punitive tariffs imposed.

(Thu, 09 Apr 2015) Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown enacted mandatory water restrictions for the first time in the state's history. While the executive order doesn't directly address hydropower generation and instead focuses on water use in cities and towns, the drought that began in 2011 has had a noticeable effect on hydropower. Furthermore, reduced levels of snowpack likely mean that hydropower output will be low throughout the summer.

TOKYO, April 9 (Reuters) - Average liquefied natural gas (LNG) spot prices for buyers in Japan rose for the first time in five months in March, but were down 56 percent year-on-year, trade ministry data showed on Thursday, in another sign of slack global demand.