Dutch dairy company Royal FrieslandCampina is planning to acquire 51% stake in Pakistani-based Engro Foods for $460m. The European dairy company has approached the Pakistan company to buy around 391 million shares from its parent company ...
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has explored the 2016 outlook for the global shipping industry and believes that global shipping companies, and drybulk and containership operators in particular, will continue to face difficult ...
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China's apparent oil demand in 2015 grew 5.8% year on year to 11.11 million b/d, the fastest pace since 2011, despite the country's economy growing at the slowest rate since 1990, Platts calculations based on recently released official data ...
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China will not cut its domestic retail fuel prices when international oil prices fall below 40 U.S. dollars a barrel, the country's economic planner said on Wednesday. Previously, China set a ceiling for domestic retail fuel prices, which ...
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Oil prices have been raised in Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the Saudi cabinet has also added tariffs on electricity, water and sanitation services. Saudi officials have approved a national budget for the coming year with a deficit of ...
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Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers including AWEA and Goodway predict missed 2015 revenue targets.Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers, including AWEA Mechantronic Co., Ltd., Goodway Machine Corp., Kao Fong Machinery Co., Ltd., and ...
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Crude prices have gone down nearly 30 percent this year, and analysts expect oil prices to remain low for even longer. Boon for consumers Lower oil prices are generally good for US consumers and the economy, said Jason Bordoff, ...
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Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Wednesday stressed that the kingdom has not been affected by the current drop in oil prices due to years of money reserve, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. During the past years, money kept ...
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Brent oil price hit 11-year low Monday as the market continued to be plagued by an oversupply of crude oil and weakening demand. Brent crude for February delivery decreased 53 cents to close at 36.35 U.S. dollars a barrel on the London ...
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The Chinese government Tuesday refrained from adjusting retail oil product prices in line with global crude oil fluctuations for the first time in nearly three years, sending a strong signal to the market that it believes prices may have ...
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Hu Kaihong: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the news briefing held by the State Council Information Office. The Johannesburg Summit and the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ("FOCAC") will ...
After more than doubling its strategic oil reserves since last year, China may apply the brakes to its buying spree as storage availability is expected to be limited, while a climate of depressed prices will reduce any urgency to snap up ...
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Hundreds of thousands of US stripper wells with production totaling 1 million b/d of crude could be at risk if oil prices fall below $35/b, where prices teetered in recent days, for long, observers say. Stripper wells are wells nearing ...
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Russia is against an increase in global crude production, rather than favouring a reduction, and remains pessimistic about the possibility of Moscow and Riyadh reaching a production coordination deal, Russia's energy minister Alexander ...
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Crude futures fell Friday after the International Energy Agency said global oil markets will remain oversupplied at least through 2016. NYMEX January crude settled $1.14 lower at $35.62/b. ICE January Brent settled down $1.80 at $37.93/b. ...