Wall Street JournalAsian Shares Broadly Up With Oil Stocks Big GainersWall Street JournalOil prices were slightly lower in early Asia trade Thursday, but still remain near a one-year high, thanks to a larger-than-expected 5.2-million barrel decline in U.S. …

Wall Street JournalAsian Shares Get Boost From Oil, ClintonWall Street JournalOil stocks were among the biggest gainers in the region. In Hong Kong, Chinese offshore oil producer Cnooc gained 2.1% and PetroChina PTR 0.75 % added 3%. Taiwan's Taiex rose …

Spectator.co.ukA ziggurat of bilge: Oil at the Almeida reviewedSpectator.co.ukElla Hickson's new play analyses our relationship with oil using the sketch format. First, there's a candlelit soap opera set in Cornwall, in 1889, with a lot of ooh-arr …

Financial TimesNorway's oil wealth swamps innovationFinancial TimesAnita Krohn Traaseth is a child of oil: she was born in 1971, the year that it started to be pumped from the Ekofisk field in the North Sea. “Look at my generation. We do not know what …

Wall Street JournalTrimming Oil Output Won't Keep OPEC States AfloatWall Street JournalSince late last month, when the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut oil production for the first time in eight years, the market chatter …

New York TimesLow Oil Prices, Security Issues Deal Death Blow To Kuwaiti ParliamentOilPrice.comKuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah ordered the dissolution of Parliament over the weekend, citing security concerns and “the circumstances in the r …

Wall Street JournalBrazil to Ease Local-Content Rules Ahead of Next Oil Bid RoundWall Street JournalRIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil's government plans to simplify local-content rules for the oil industry ahead of an important bidding round next year as part of a …

Wall Street JournalTapping Norway's Oil Fund Raises Political HacklesWall Street JournalOil-rich Norway could be forming a bad habit. The government said Thursday it would keep draining money from one vessel—the nation's vast sovereign-wealth fund— …

Wall Street JournalOPEC Ministers Reach for Compromise on Oil OutputWall Street JournalALGIERS—OPEC ministers began a closed-door session this afternoon to discuss a proposed cut to the cartel's oil production, the latest attempt to stem a two-year cru …

Wall Street JournalUS Stocks Edge Up, Despite Slide in Oil PricesWall Street JournalU.S. stocks ticked higher Tuesday, despite a slide in oil prices that put pressure on energy shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 38 points, or 0.2%, to 18133. Th …