After 4-month surge, gas prices start falling

Oil’s decline is proving to be the worst since the collapse of the financial system in 2008 and threatening to have the same global impact of falling prices three decades ago that led to the Mexican debt crisis and the end of the Soviet Union.

It is almost impossible to emphasize enough how important it is to start saving for retirement early.

The world’s largest oil company sees emissions in the developing world surging 50%, a forecast that suggests the diplomatic push to draft an accord to curb global warming stands to fall short. The assessment, in a report Tuesday from an Exxon Mobil Corp. team of economists, scientists and engineers, shows how far the world is from cutting pollution blamed for climate disruption. It comes as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned envoys Tuesday at United Nations talks in Lima that the “window of opportunity” to slow climate change is closing.

LONDON — Brent crude surged to a six-month high on Wednesday as western countries prepared to attack Syria, raising concerns over the security of oil supplies across the Middle East, which pumps a third of the world’s oil. The United States and its allies are readying for air strikes against the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, blamed for poison gas attacks last week. But the timing of any action was unclear.

This is the first real good news I've seen in the housing market:  rental rates finally seem to be stabilizing.  Rents rose in 60 of the 79 metro areas tracked by Reis, a real-estate research firm.

Never mind the 1980s, you have to go back to the Labour government's income policies of 1977 to find a time when household incomes have been as squeezed as they have been in the past year.

U.S. stocks have opened the first full week of 2015 with a steep decline as falling oil prices weigh down energy stocks.

U.S. stocks have opened the first full week of 2015 with a steep decline as falling oil prices weigh down energy stocks.