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By Laila Kearney NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of pea...

March 19 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Thursday as crude prices soared on intensifying Middle East hostilities, reviving inflation worries that have prompted the Federal Reser...

LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank kept its key interest rate at 2% on Thursday and warned that the war in Iran was clouding the outlook for growth and inflation in the euro zone. ...

FRANKFURT, March 19 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised its inflation projections on Thursday on higher energy costs and said there was a risk of price growth going even higher in case of a p...

FRANKFURT, March 19 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged as expected on Thursday but signalled it was closely watching growth and inflation risks from surging oil prices...

By William Schomberg and David Milliken LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - The Bank of England's interest rate-setters all voted to keep borrowing costs on hold and said they were "ready to act" to see off ...

By Maha El Dahan, Andrew Mills and Yousef Saba March 19 (Reuters) - Energy prices surged on Thursday after Iran struck the world's largest LNG complex, causing damage that Qatar said could take five y...

By Ozan Ergenay March 19 (Reuters) - Lanxess said it was raising chemical prices to counter the effects of the Middle East conflict, after the speciality chemicals maker reported annual results and an...

By Joanna Plucinska BRUSSELS, March 19 (Reuters) - The widening conflict in the Middle East will push up airline ticket prices and leave "no winners," Willie Walsh, head of the International Air Trans...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, pointing to stable labor market conditions and...