Biofuels blamed for food price crisis - report | LONDON (Reuters) - Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 percent -- far more than previously estimated -- according to a confidential World Bank report published in a British newspaper on... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)The Star
EU shrugs off biofuels complaints BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union will ignore critics who accuse it of helping to boost food prices by embracing a binding target for the use of biofuels, officials said Friday. | The European Co... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)San Diego
West's loss of Gulf funds East's gain | By Meena Janardhan | DUBAI - As politically motivated restrictions on investments by oil-rich countries intensify in the West, the sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) of the Gulf countries could opt to in... (photo: AP / Hasan Jamali)Asia Times DubaiFundsGulfInvestmentsPhotos
Oil drops $1 amid optimism on Iran | Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel yesterday from record levels set a day earlier on hopes that tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear program could ease and cut the ch... (photo: Public Domain file)The Providence Journal EconomyEnergyIranPhotosSolar
