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Trump Cuts India Tariffs in Deal He Links to Russian Oil

By Skylar Woodhouse and Shruti Srivastava President Donald Trump said he will slash tariffs on India to 18% after Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil, easing tensions between the two countries. Trump said Monday on social media that, following a phone call with Modi, he will lower his tariff on Indian …

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The $3 Trillion AI Data Center Build-Out Becomes All-Consuming For Debt Markets

Artificial intelligence already has a big footprint in stocks. Now lending for data centers is becoming a factor in bonds and credit. By Paula Seligson More than $3 trillion. That’s the ­staggering price tag to build the data centers needed to prepare for the artificial intelligence boom. Not even the world’s biggest technology companies—not Amazon.com, …

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Oil Field Vendor Nine Files Bankruptcy to Cut $320 Million Debt

By Dorothy Ma Nine Energy Service Inc., a Houston-based oil field vendor, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday as it struggled with high leverage and a shrinking business amid a slowdown in drilling programs. The deal will see a “complete equitization” of its $320 million first-lien notes due 2028, according to . The company …

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US Natural Gas Plunges by Most in About 30 Years on Warm Weather

By Julian Hast, Stephen Stapczynski, and Sing Yee Ong US natural gas futures plummeted on Monday as weather forecasts for mid-February shifted significantly warmer, marking the largest daily loss for the front-month contract on a percentage basis since 1995, excluding contract rollover days. The March contract settled down 25.7% to $3.237 per million British thermal …

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BP’s Whiting Refinery Union Workers Agree to 24-Hour Rolling Extension

United Steelworkers members at BP’s 440,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Whiting, Indiana agreed to a rolling 24-hour contract extension at the largest refinery in the U.S. Midwest, the company said in a statement on Sunday.This would mean that the current collective bargaining agreement would automatically renew every 24 hours unless either the union or BP cancels the …

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Two Things OPEC+ Can’t Control. Trump and China Imports: Russell

Reuters There are two factors that are largely beyond the control of OPEC+ and they are likely to determine the price of crude oil in the coming weeks. The first is whether U.S. President Donald Trump does decide to start a shooting war with Iran, and if he does whether both sides will be able …

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Union Extends talks with Marathon, Averting Strike at Refineries

Summary Strike averted on a rolling 24-hour basis, union says Union has rejected at least five Marathon proposals Last proposal would have provided 14% pay increase over four years (Reuters) – The United Steelworkers union said late on Saturday it would extend talks with Marathon Petroleum, averting a strike by 30,000 workers at U.S. refineries …

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US Lower 48 Crude Output Down 379,000 Bpd in January on Storm Outages 

U.S. crude output is expected to be down 379,000 barrels per day in the lower 48 states for the month of January, according to consultancy Rystad, as operators kept restoring production after a winter storm knocked off up to 2 million bpd of output last weekend. U.S. crude output from the lower 48 states was …

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