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Billionaire Agarwal may invest in US oil service firms to expand Cairn output

India's largest privately owned oil and gas company Cairn India said it may invest in U.S. service and engineering companies as part of a $5 billion plan to grow output five-fold in the coming years, its chairman said on Tuesday. "I want to spend $5 billion on developing my project to get to 500,000 barrels per day production," billionaire Anil Agarwal told Reuters in an interview. Cairn, part of Vedanta Limited, produces 100,000 bpd today.

US inflation cooled last month, though trade war threatens to lift prices

U.S. inflation slowed last month for the first time since September and a measure of underlying inflation fell to a four-year low, even as widespread tariffs threaten to send prices higher. The consumer price index increased 2.8% in February from a year ago, Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department showed, down from 3% the previous month. Core prices, which exclude the volatile food and energy categories, rose 3.1% from a year earlier, down from 3.3% in January.