By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) - Greater operating efficiencies in the top U.S. shale patch are squeezing out more oil without higher spending, according to the latest output numbers, which will boost global oil market supplies as OPEC also plans to unwind its output cuts later in the year. Producers are extending their wells to as much as three miles,...

(Reuters) - James Kirsh expects the cost of the property and casualty insurance for his family-owned foundry in Wisconsin that makes cast iron parts for tractors and other equipment to at least double when it's up for renewal this fall. He's been told it could triple. The problem is that his long-time insurer - Acuity - has told his insurance...

SAN DIEGO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Pacific Rim Uprising actor Cailee Spaeny had to admit that things became bleak while filming the Disney ( DIS ) movie Alien: Romulus, the latest installment in the popular Alien franchise, because characters were killed off regularly. Oh, it was always really sad when someone died, you know. Because we shot it chronologically. I...

LONDON (Reuters) - Stalled efforts to expand companies' use of carbon credits to offset greenhouse-gas emissions are raising the prospect that some will backtrack or abandon targets to shrink their carbon footprint. Since 2015, when governments agreed in Paris to try to keep the world from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), more than half of the...