Business news for Sun, 30 Dec 2007 & with word energy. 6 news.

These continue to be tumultuous days in US equity markets. We have at the same time witnessed rising energy costs and declining value of the US dollar against other currencies.

U.S. stock markets are leaving behind a mediocre 2007 for an uncertain new year. The three major indexes ended the year with single-digit growth that was muted by a credit crisis fueled by turmoil in the U.S. subprime mortgage market, a worsening downturn in the national housing industry, a continued rise in energy prices and weak consumer spending.

If you've ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that asphalt absorbs the sun's energy. A Dutch company is now siphoning heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.

The year 2007 was one of big moves in business. Oil and gasoline were way up. Housing and the dollar were down. It was a good year for alternative energy and Internet companies, but a bad one for banks. By year end, forecasters were debating whether a...

Knight Vinke, the rebel shareholder targeting HSBC, is planning to turn its guns on four major European energy companies, according to documents published by one of the firm's biggest backers.

A COMPANY that has just launched itself on the London stock market as a renewable-energy business is the same firm that became embroiled in the “blood diamond” scandals of the 1990s, in which illegally traded diamonds were used to finance civil wars in Africa, The Sunday Times has established.