M. Holland is the headline sponsor for AMI’s Thermoplastic Concentrates in Orlando on Jan. 24-26. Stop by Booth #16 to speak with our experts and attend a talk on regulatory compliance changes by Christopher Thelen, M. Holland’s Senior Regulatory Specialist, on Jan. 24 at 4:20 pm.
M. Holland will be exhibiting at MD&M West in Anaheim on Feb. 7-9. Stop by Booth #4115 to meet our Healthcare team and discuss how M. Holland’s line of medical-grade resins can help you develop safe and effective medical products and packaging.
Oil rose Tuesday after China posted weak but expectation-beating annual economic growth.
In mid-morning trading today, WTI futures were up 2.2% at $81.90/bbl, Brent was up 1.8% at $87.43/bbl, and U.S. natural gas was down 6.2% at $3.36/MMBtu.
U.S. gasoline prices are on the rise despite a seasonal demand slump, gaining 5.7 cents the past week to an average of $3.33 per gallon.
Top U.S. exporter Freeport LNG says it is still targeting the second half of January for a restart of its fire-damaged export terminal in Texas.
Top Western energy firms are expected to post a combined profit of $200 billion for 2022, a full-year record marked by extreme volatility in oil and gas prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The International Energy Agency raised its estimate for global oil demand this year by 200,000 bpd, now predicting demand will hit a record 101.7 million bpd driven by the reopening of China.
China’s oil refinery output fell 3.4% in 2022, marking the first annual decline in over two decades.
New leadership at Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA suspended most export contracts as the firm conducts a comprehensive review to avoid payment defaults.
Daily pipeline gas exports by Russian energy giant Gazprom fell 22% in the first half of January amid unusually warm weather across the Northern Hemisphere.
Russia’s deeply discounted fuel exports helped it become the third-largest oil supplier to India last year, dragging down OPEC’s share to the lowest in more than a decade.
Daily sales of Tesla’s China-made cars surged 76% earlier this month after it slashed prices for its top-selling models.
Renault saw sales of its flagship brand fall 9.4% in 2022, the fourth straight yearly decline.
Struggling used-car seller Carvana adopted a “poison pill” this week to limit shareholders from raising their stakes and reached agreement to sell up to $4 billion of auto loans.
Hertz plans to make up to 25,000 electric vehicles available to rent for Uber drivers in European cities by 2025.
GM plans to introduce an electric Corvette later this year with a starting cost of roughly $104,000.
Global semiconductor sales fell 9.2% year over year in November to a total of $45.5 billion, including a sharp 13.9% decline in Asia-Pacific sales.
Glencore’s massive Antapaccay copper mine in Peru is operating at limited capacity due to disruption from widespread political protests in the country.
The U.S. reported 67,635 new COVID-19 infections and 695 virus fatalities Tuesday.
Clinical trials show Moderna’s vaccine against RSV was highly effective in preventing the lung disease in older people, paving the way for the company to seek its first approval outside COVID-19.
Retail sales fell 1.1% in December, the biggest monthly decline of the year.
Growth in American household spending rose by 7.7% in December, down from a record-high 9% over the summer but still well above the 5.1% recorded in December 2021.
Over 5 million businesses were created in the U.S. last year, a sign that the entrepreneurship boom spawned by the pandemic may be long-lasting.
In the latest news from quarterly earnings season:
Profit plunged 66% from a year ago at Goldman Sachs and 40% at Morgan Stanley, reflecting a continued slowdown in the corporate deal-making that had fueled record earnings a year earlier.
United Airlines saw a stronger-than-expected 30% rise in profit as consumers continued to shell out for airline tickets despite broader economic worries.
Appliance-maker Whirlpool posted a record $1.5 billion loss as it works to turn over much of its struggling European business to a Turkish company.
Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees, the latest big tech firm to reduce staff in response to slowing demand and a worsening global economic outlook.
Apple rolled out its first new products of the year Tuesday, offering faster versions of its high-end MacBook Pro laptops and the Mac mini desktop.
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