published Jun 14th 2016, 5:43 pm, by Alison Vekshin (Bloomberg) — California has overtaken France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, fueled by strong growth and the U.S. dollar’s gains against foreign currencies, state data released Tuesday show. The most-populous U.S. state, with a gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion, has

published Jun 12th 2016, 5:52 pm, by Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — Crude fell a third day after the number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. rose for a second week. Futures fell as much as 1 percent in New York after dropping 4.2 percent in the previous two