Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Chesapeake Energy Corp., the nation's largest producer of natural gas, seeks to raise up to $1.8 billion through common stock sales in an effort to fund its drilling and exploration activities and mitigate the impact of lower natural gas prices on cash...

Executives of drilling companies exploring a huge untapped reserve of natural gas say the economic windfall expected from the Marcellus shale may not come to pass if Pennsylvania doesn't get its regulatory house in order. Industry officials complained...

Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile underground are opening up unconventional gas fields touted as a key to the nation's energy future. These deposits, where natural gas...

Stocks plunged Thursday to levels not seen in at least five years, as financial and energy stocks tumbled. Wall Street saw the most intense selling late in the session after hopes faded that lawmakers would quickly assemble an aid package for U.S....

The misery gripping the stock market lifted at least briefly Friday as share prices surged on word that President-elect Barack Obama had settled on a nominee for Treasury secretary. After hovering near the break-even point for much of the trading...

African children smile for the camera, a youngster sips pink medicine from a spoon and a doctor explains his part in a venture to fight malaria, the No. 1 killer on the continent. It's an effort, he says, that will help save hundreds of thousands of...

Chesapeake Energy has sold a stake in its Appalachian natural gas holdings to a Norwegian oil form. The $3.4 billion deal gives Statoil-Hydro a nearly 33 percent stake in Chesapeake's Marcellus Shale assets. Tuesday's deal gives Statoil-Hydro about...

Proposition 1A: High-speed rail What it would do: Authorize the state to sell $9.95 billion in bonds to help fund a $45-billion bullet train between Orange County and the San Francisco Bay Area. Repayment would cost the state $647 million annually for...

The first thing you need to know about recent energy-market gyrations and winter heating costs is to say "no thanks" to BGE Home's fixed-price natural gas offer of $1.599 per therm. You wouldn't pay $5 a gallon for gasoline. Don't pay $1.599 a therm...

Q: Does Texas Instruments Inc. stock have potential? -- C.M., via the Internet A: The decision of major customers Nokia Corp. and Ericsson LM to work with additional suppliers has been a disappointment for the world's largest maker of cell phone chips....

The 400 richest Americans, including U.S. citizens now living abroad, as compiled by Forbes magazine. Following each name is the person's age, net worth, hometown and source of wealth. Where more than one name is listed under a number, there is a tie....

Monday: -- Institute for Supply Management services index -- Earnings: Activision Inc.; Anadarko Petroleum Corp.; Burger King Holdings Inc.; Cardinal Health Inc.; Career Education Corp.; Dun & Bradstreet Corp.; Entergy Corp.; Forest Oil Corp.; Sysco Corp....