Commodity Markets

PERTH, May 21 (Reuters) - U.S. crude futures eased to about $96.50 a barrel in early trading in Asia on Tuesday as ample supplies weighed on prices, despite support from equity markets. FUNDAMENTALS * U.S. oil fell 14 cents to $96.57 a barrel by 0023...

By John Kemp LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques could boost U.S. domestic oil production by 4 million barrels per day for 50 years, while storing all the emissions from 93 large coal-fired power plants, at a price of just...

* Gold falls for sixth sessions, first time in four years * Oil gains as dollar drops after soft U.S. economic readings * U.S. drought shrinks, may be too late for some wheat crops By Carole Vaporean NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Most commodity markets...

* Dollar recovers after president of San Francisco Fed speaks * Wall Street drops further but Cisco surges on earnings * Bond prices rise on poor U.S. economic data * Brent oil settles slightly higher By Herbert Lash NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) -...

* Euro zone annual inflation down to 1.2 pct in April * Bloc's trade surplus widens to 22.9 bln euros in March By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS, May 16 (Reuters) - Falling prices in Germany and France pulled euro zone consumer inflation to a three-year low...

* Euro slides 0.1 against dollar after weak euro zone inflation * Data reinforces expectations of monetary policy easing * European shares dip but still near multi-year highs * Japanese growth spurt 'proves Abenomics is working' By Richard Hubbard...

* Dollar reverses gains against euro and yen * Data shows surprises weakness in labour and housing markets * European shares flat but still near multi-year highs * Japanese growth spurt 'proves Abenomics is working' By Richard Hubbard LONDON, May...

LONDON (Reuters) - A Hungarian ethanol producer said it alerted the European Commission over the role of price agency Platts in setting prices, feeding into an investigation of three major oil companies. Pannonia Ethanol, a recent entrant to Europe's...

By Robert Campbell NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - The vulnerability of physical crude price assessments to manipulation is an open secret within the oil industry. The surprise, perhaps, is that it took regulators so long to open a formal probe....

By Robert Campbell NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - The vulnerability of physical crude price assessments to manipulation is an open secret within the oil industry. The surprise, perhaps, is that it took regulators so long to open a formal probe....

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. producer prices recorded their largest drop in three years in April as gasoline and food costs tumbled, pointing to weak inflation pressures that should give the Federal Reserve latitude to keep monetary policy very...

* Producer prices fall 0.7 percent in April * Wholesale price drop largest in three years * Core PPI rises 0.1 percent, smallest since November * New York state manufacturing activity contracts in May By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters)...