German power prices for Monday and next week jumped early on Friday on higher demand and low expected renewable supply in the European wholesale market amid an ongoing cold weather spell. ›

Oil prices dipped on Thursday, hit by doubts that producers would fully deliver on promises to cut output, although record U.S. automobile sales and falling crude stocks offered markets some support. ›

Oil edged higher on Wednesday, with top exporter Saudi Arabia expected to raise prices for its crude as part of planned supply cuts, although a strong dollar and moderate economic growth prospects restricted gains. ›

UK prompt gas prices plunged on Tuesday, the first full trading day of 2017, as weak demand and ramped-up North Sea supply wiped out more of last month’s gains, matched by sell-offs on European coal, carbon and power markets. ›

Oil prices rose in the first trading hours of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between OPEC and non-OPEC members to cut production, which kicked in on Sunday, will be effective in draining a global supply glut. ›

European spot power prices on Tuesday were volatile, driven by weather patterns, with day ahead prices pressured by a rising supply of wind power in major producer Germany and as a colder weather later this week pushed up prices in that period. ›

Oil prices slipped on Friday in thin Asian trade ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, eroding some of the gains in the previous session as traders took profits. ›

British wholesale gas prices rose on Thursday, as a weaker sterling against the euro helped lift the market in thin holiday trade. ›

Oil prices nudged higher in tepid Asian trading on Thursday, supported by a weaker dollar and optimism that crude producers would abide by an agreement to curb output to prop up markets. ›

British wholesale prompt gas prices reversed earlier losses to trade higher on Wednesday, supported by firmer near-curve contracts on the back of a weakening pound against the euro and on rising carbon prices. ›