Gas prices

The price of natural gas used to heat homes and generate electricity is plunging this year.

A sign that the painful inflation of the past 18 months may be gradually easing could come Tuesday.

High gas prices have Wallace Reid looking for a new career

The tensions show the risk of Europe’s reliance on Russia for energy.

Europe’s natural gas crisis isn’t letting up. Reserves are low. Prices are high. Utility customers are facing expensive bills. Major Russian supplier Gazprom isn’t selling gas like it used to.

The European Union will invest 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) in sustainable energy by 2030, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday.

Growing jitters about inflation have contributed to a sharp sell-off in stock prices this week.