Crude prices rebounded Monday as traders started to buy after the prices have declined significantly in the past week.
Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Machado on Thursday urged tobacco farmers in his country to tap further into the national advantage and increase output.
Chinese steel companies are growing despite widespread losses and the government's efforts to thin the sector.
Rising electricity and dairy prices drove increases in both New Zealand's input and output producer prices in the March quarter, the government statistics agency announced Monday.
China's industrial production growth slowed in 2012 from a year earlier to 10 percent year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Friday.