U.S. Thanksgiving travel will jump to the highest level since 2005 boosted by a stronger economy, even as gasoline prices will be higher than a year earlier.
The Baton Rouge refinery, the fourth-largest refinery in the U.S., has begun shutting units as the flooding threatened an offsite liquefied petroleum gas storage facility.
The worst flooding across the U.S. Midwest in four years is disrupting everything from oil to agriculture, forcing pipelines, terminals and grain elevators to close and killing off thousands of pigs.
