Commodity/Financial Market News

Diesel makes the economy go, but it was only last year that the price of the fuel became the stuff of dinner-table conversation.Retail diesel prices soared to an all-time high of $5.816 a…

Mergers and acquisitions slowed substantially in 2022 as companies faced a mix of financing challenges, including rising interest rates, a pullback in leveraged finance, bond-market jitters…

Freight companies are preparing for what executives are calling a muted peak season, as dimming shipping demand from overstocked retailers ripples across U.S. shipping markets. Several big…

More U.S. companies are drawing investors’ attention to earnings figures that strip away the negative impact of foreign-currency rates as the strong dollar continues to pinch quarterly…

CNX Resources Corp. was initially planning to raise funds in the bond market in January, but the natural gas firm decided to wait until its earnings were out…

Real-estate companies are facing soaring costs to protect their variable debt against jumps in interest rates, with prices on some contracts jumping at least 10-fold this month from a year…

Cheniere Energy Inc.’s finance chief is working toward landing an investment-grade credit rating in the coming year, as the largest U.S. exporter of liquefied…

For centuries, bond investing has boiled down to forecasting two things: which way interest rates are going to move and how likely a borrower is to repay its debts. A handful of startups are…

TOKYO—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has embarked on an international lobbying blitz for a proposal she says will stave off a global recession, working to…

PARIS—European manufacturers are preparing for possible natural-gas rationing that would force them to shut production amid fears that Russia is about to cut off gas deliveries via its main…