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The boom in new oil and natural gas flowing through U.S. pipelines is beginning to ripple through the wider American economy.
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KARLSRUHE, Germany, April 25- EnBW, Germany's No.3 utility, will step up its compliance efforts after its offices were searched last week over two cases, its chief executive said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, April 25- U.S. Senate leaders are looking at ways to alleviate widespread airline flight delays- brought about by last month's automatic federal spending cuts- with legislation that could be voted upon as early as Thursday, a Senate aide said.
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Residents in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota, have been filling sandbags ahead of the expected fourth major Red River flood in the past five years after unseasonably cold weather delayed the annual thaw.
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NEW YORK, April 24- The boom in domestic oil and gas production has strengthened the hand of the United States in global affairs and is having a profound impact on U.S. security and foreign policy, President Barack Obama's national security adviser said on Wednesday.
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In California the unemployment rate fell to 9.4 percent, the lowest since December 2008 and more than a percentage point below March 2012, when it was 10.7 percent. California and Nevada, two places where housing had flourished, have consistently had some of the highest unemployment rates in the country over the last few years.
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April 19- Unemployment rates dropped in most U.S. states in March from the year before, including California where joblessness fell to a four-year low, as the recovery picked up in places hit hard by the housing downturn.
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The Dow dipped while the S&P 500 edged up on Wednesday as a sharp drop in durable goods orders last month added to worries about slower U.S. economic activity and Apple's results disappointed investors. **BOEING CO, $91.15, up 3.3 pct. **APPLE INC, $401.20, down 1 pct.
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*First-quarter EPS $3.72 vs $1.60 year earlier. The company's net income soared to $1.28 billion, up from $545 million a year ago, boosted by a gain of $588 million, largely on account of the sale of it assets in the UK North Sea and Azerbaijan. So far this year, it has announced the sale of assets in Texas and Russia, besides those located in the UK North Sea and Azerbaijan.
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*Adjusted profit $1.95/ share vs Wall Street estimate $1.59. Shares of Hess rose nearly 3 percent to $70.20 in midday New York Stock Exchange trading. Roger Read, a Wells Fargo analyst, said in a note to clients that the earnings beat "could bode well for Hess management" in its proxy fight with Elliott.
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CHICAGO, April 23- Chicago Board of Trade corn futures fell for the second consecutive trading session on Tuesday on forecasts for better U.S. corn planting weather by next week and on recent rainfall that has eased drought concerns boosting production prospects.
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April 19- Unemployment rates dropped in most U.S. states in March from the year before, including California where joblessness fell to a four-year low, as the recovery picked up in places hit hard by the housing downturn.
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CHICAGO, April 19- Torrential downpours across a broad swath of the U.S. The Army Corps of Engineers is closing locks along a 150- mile stretch of the Mississippi River from roughly Davenport in Iowa to Hannibal, Missouri. The Mississippi and other major rivers are expected to begin cresting Sunday- and likely will run over levies in some areas.
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CHICAGO, April 18- Drought conditions eased after storms moved across the central United States and the U.S. But it was dry from west Texas to eastern Colorado into western Kansas and southwestern Nebraska. Big improvements were noted in the Dakotas and minor easing in Kansas, Wyoming and Colorado.
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The proposed 830,000 barrel per day pipeline would link Canada's oil sands petroleum fields with U.S. Gulf Coast refineries and would also carry domestic oil from Montana and North Dakota.
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*Freeze hurts wheat in U.S. CHICAGO, April 18- Another round of freezing temperatures in the U.S. "Temperatures fell to the low to mid-20s in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles this morning, and more widespread freezing is expected Friday morning," said Andy Karst, meteorologist for World Weather Inc..
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An assumption that oil would move by rail without Keystone was a key part of a U.S. State Department report in March that found development of Canada's oil sands region will proceed at roughly the same rate, with or without the pipeline.
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*North Dakota says production to accelerate in May. April 16- Crude oil production in North Dakota, the No. 2 U.S. oil-producing state, hit an all-time high in February but will really accelerate in May after bad weather and road restrictions end, the state's Department of Mineral Resources said on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO, April 12- Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose 2.4 percent on Friday, rallying through key technical resistance amid signs of good export demand and worries about the health of the U.S. crop, traders said.
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CHICAGO, April 12- Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose 1.9 percent on Friday, rallying through key technical resistance amid signs of good export demand and worries about the health of the U.S. crop, traders said. At 10:04 a.m. CDT, Chicago Board of Trade May soybeans were up 12 cents at $14.14 a bushel. CBOT May corn was 5-1/ 4 cents higher at $6.56- 1/ 2 a bushel.
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Nonetheless, alongside Wisconsin and New Hampshire, it registered a decrease from the year before. New York collected the second most taxes, $71.55 billion, followed by other states with large populations: Texas at $48.6 billion, Illinois at $36.44 billion, Florida at $33 billion and Pennsylvania at $32.95 billion.