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Oil prices at one-month low on demand worries

Oil prices extended losses on Thursday, falling by more than 2% to their lowest point since early August, as worries about weaker U.S. gasoline demand and a sluggish economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic dented sentiment. Brent crude LCOc1 fell $1, or 2.25%, to $43.43 a barrel by...

As virus rages, US economy struggles to sustain a recovery

Home sales are booming. Stocks are setting record highs. Industrial production is clambering out of the ditch it fell into early this year. And yet the US economy is nowhere close to regaining the health it achieved, with low unemployment, free-spending consumers and booming travel, before...