Justin Fox Six states lost jobs during the 12 months ended in March. It’s a familiar bunch — Alaska, Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Wyoming — all hammered by either coal’s decline or the collapse in U.S. oil drilling that has followed the collapse of global oil prices. (That price plunge was of course brought on in part …

  The Republican nomination race has three more stages to go, and each of the three candidates left in it is concentrating on a different one. First, the candidates have to win votes in the remaining contests to maximize the number of delegates bound to them on the first ballot. Second, they have to prevail in selecting delegates: making sure …

  Dubai / WAM With the GCC tripling its production capacity between the 2004-2015 period, petrochemical producers in the region must focus on supply chain efficiencies in order to retain export market share, said the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), ahead of the Supply Chain Conference in May. Regional chemical output in plastics, fertilisers and other products are chiefly …