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  • Commodities Next Week  Friday, 25 Mar 2011 | 4:00 PM ET

    CNBC's Sharon Epperson examines the day's activity in the commodities markets, and looks ahead to where oil, gold and silver are likely headed next week.

  • A Radical Kind of Reactor Friday, 25 Mar 2011 | 2:37 AM ET
    A doctor checks uses a giger counter to check the level of radiation on a woman

    While engineers at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant struggle to keep its uranium fuel rods from melting down, engineers in China are building a radically different type of reactor that some experts say offers a safer nuclear alternative, the New York  Times reports.

  • Five Things We're Watching: March 25, 2011 Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 | 7:28 PM ET

    Despite the ongoing crisis in Japan and Portugal's pending implosion, there's the iPad to look forward to.

  • How Nuclear Accidents Affected Markets 30 Days Later Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 | 12:55 PM ET
    Quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Futaba, Fukushima

    A CNBC analysis of how markets reacted to previous nuclear accidents may help explain and predict the impact of the emergency in Japan.

  • Nukes & the Markets  Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 | 9:39 AM ET

    CNBC's Simon Hobbs takes a look at the nuclear disasters in the past and how the market reacted.

  • Review of 104 US Nuclear Power Sites Approved Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 | 8:12 AM ET
    Residential homes sit in front of the coal fueled Ferrybridge power station as it generates electricity in Ferrybridge, United Kingdom.

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched a two-step review of U.S. nuclear power plants in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan.

  • Germany Steps Away From European Unity Thursday, 24 Mar 2011 | 2:55 AM ET

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has deeply strained relations with allies in the European Union and the NATO alliance, raising new questions about Germany’s ability to play a global role in foreign policy, the New York Times reports.

  • Cramer: Avoid Investing In These 2 Sectors Wednesday, 23 Mar 2011 | 7:50 PM ET

    Try these two sectors instead, the "Mad Money" host said.

  • A couple walks past upturned vehicles sitting on a wall in the city of Miyako

    Almost two weeks since an earthquake and tsunami devastated a large part of Japan and forced Japanese automakers to shut down their plants, there's a growing panic with American car buyers.

  • Oil Will Be Gone in 50 Years: HSBC Wednesday, 23 Mar 2011 | 2:55 AM ET

    There could be less than 49 years of oil supplies left, even if demand were to remain flat according to HSBC’s senior global economist Karen Ward.

  • Bill Miller

    Here's what you should be watching Wednesday, March 23.

  • Halftime: 4 Market Movers to Watch Tuesday, 22 Mar 2011 | 1:30 PM ET

    Why the "Fast Money" traders are monitoring these market moving stocks.

  • Factory Emissions

    Relief crews, businesses and ordinary consumers have bought nearly every Geiger counter available from the few American retailers that sell them, the New York Times reports.

  • Early Look at Futures & Oil  Tuesday, 22 Mar 2011 | 6:38 AM ET

    A check on futures and energy, with Carl Larry, Oil Outlooks and Opinions and Kevin Ferry, Cronus Futures Management.

  • Natural Gas Now Viewed as Safer Bet Tuesday, 22 Mar 2011 | 4:41 AM ET
    Natural Gas

    Natural gas may be having its day, as its rival energy sources come under a cloud. The serious problems at the nuclear power plant in Japan have raised new doubts about the safety of nuclear energy the New York Times reports.

  • Fears of Another Downturn Overplayed: Jim O'Neill Tuesday, 22 Mar 2011 | 1:30 AM ET
    Anti-Gaddafi rebel runs away as smoke rises following an air strike by Libyan warplanes.

    Fears that the world economy is facing another downturn are being overplayed, despite the political upheaval caused by recent unrest in the Middle East and the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said.

  • Here's what you should be watching Tuesday, March 22.

  • Got Plans for the Next 25,000 Years? Monday, 21 Mar 2011 | 11:36 AM ET

    It turns out that nuclear waste has more in common with the financial world than being a metaphor for the worst of its toxic assets.

  • Energy's Perfect Storm  Monday, 21 Mar 2011 | 7:16 AM ET

    The unrest in the Middle East has sent oil prices soaring and the nuclear crisis in Japan as stoked fears about alternative energy sources, with Gov. Bill Richardson, former U.S. energy secretary (R-NM) and Steve Forbes, Forbes Media.

  • Crises in Japan Ripple Across Global Economy Monday, 21 Mar 2011 | 5:27 AM ET
    80-year-old Sumi Abe is rescued from her destroyed house nine days after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 20, 2011 in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan.

    In the wake of Japan’s cascading disasters, signs of economic loss can be found in many corners of the globe, from Sendai, on the battered Japanese coast, to Paris to Marion, Ark., reports the New York Times.