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Hydropower drives Vattenfall, Statkraft profits, Fortum hit by reduced prices
Sweden's Vattenfall and Norway's Statkraft registered higher first-quarter earnings on Thursday, sustained by higher hydropower production, while fossil-fuel reliant Finnish Fortum's profit dropped.
read more... 29/04/2016
Vattenfall demands Sweden to abolish nuclear tax to save reactors
State-owned Swedish utility Vattenfall called on Wednesday to end tax on nuclear power in Sweden to avoid early closure of its loss-making nuclear reactors and probable increase in electricity prices.
read more... 28/04/2016
Daily: European year-ahead power prices trade higher tracking fresh 2016 highs for oil
Crude oil climbed by about 3 percent on Wednesday, reaching fresh highs for 2016 as the dollar depreciated after the Federal Reserve unveiled it would leave U.S. interest rates unchanged. Front-month Brent rose by $1.44, to settle at $47.18, having touched a 2016 high of $47.45 earlier. WTI's front-month contract increased $1.29, percent, to close at $45.33 a barrel, after attaining a 2016 high at $45.62.
read more... 28/04/2016
Daily: Crude oil rockets to 2016 high after API report release, gasoline hike
Crude oil prices attained 2016 highs on Tuesday, buoyed by a hike in the gasoline market and after API’s report showing an unexpected withdrawal in U.S. crude inventories. Brent and U.S. crude's West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures closed the trading about 3 percent higher. Brent crude futures increased by $1.26 to settle at $45.74 a barrel. In post-settlement trade, it raised as much as $2.01 to a 2016 high of $46.49. U.S. crude futures edged $1.40 higher at $44.04. It added $2.19 in after-hours trade to hit a year-to-date high of $44.83.
read more... 27/04/2016
German wholesale electricity for 2017 rise by 7.5% attaining 26.5 eur/MWh
German baseload wholesale electricity price for delivery in 2017 touched 26.5 euros ($29.97) a megawatt hour in Tuesday trading, or an increase of 7.5 percent on the day and the most elevated level thus far in 2016.
read more... 27/04/2016