Damage to oil production facilities in the US Gulf of Mexico kept output largely halted on Sunday, a week after Hurricane Ida made landfall.

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is hitting the US economy as there has been a slowdown in hiring, showing yet another complication for President Joe Biden’s plans to remake the world’s largest economy.

The labor crisis could last for up to two years, the UK’s leading business lobby group has warned, as it called on the government to relax its new immigration rules to allow in more foreign workers.

Boeing’s delivery of 787 Dreamliners will likely remain halted until at least late October as the US Federal Aviation Administration has rejected the company’s recent proposal to inspect them, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

The oil arm of Russia’s major gas corporation Gazprom – Gazprom Neft – begins to abandon the US dollar in favor of the Chinese yuan in settling payments for fueling planes throughout China, the company’s CEO says.

The US Treasury authorizes transfers of money to Afghanistan involving personal remittances.

Energy companies on Wednesday scrambled to open new offshore supply operations and restart pipelines and platforms, days after Hurricane Ida slammed the US Gulf Coast, executives said.