Qatar National Bank in $2.95 bn deal for Finansbank
Qatar National Bank said Tuesday it has agreed to buy a Turkish subsidiary of the National Bank of Greece for $2.95 billion (2.7 billion...
Dutch Shell executive reduce flaring in Venezuela following Iraq reductions
Mounir Bouaziz, who left Shell last year and is now an independent business developer, said he began talks last October with Venezuelan state oil...
Saudi fiscal reserves slide to 4-year low on weak oil
Saudi Arabia's fiscal reserves dropped to a four-year low last year as the government sought to finance a budget deficit caused by plunging oil...
Warren Buffett says US economy weaker than he expected
Billionaire Warren Buffett says the U.S. economy appears weaker than he thought it would be as recently as last fall, but that doesn't change...
Saudi job creation dries up as oil price slumps
Saudi Arabia's plans for economic reform foresee winding down 'jobs for life' in an inefficient state bureaucracy and replacing them with new careers in...
Oil slip on Saudi comments
World oil prices dipped Monday as Saudi Arabia cast doubt on whether a key producers meeting would reach an agreement to freeze output to...
WageSpot phone app pulls back curtain on employee pay
A WageSpot smartphone application released in the United States on Tuesday dove into a historically taboo topic -- how much people get paid.
The app...
Iraq, U.S. Exim Bank to sign $3 billion agreement
The U.S. Exim Bank plans to extend Iraq a $3 billion credit line to help rebuild the country after the war with Islamic State,...
Saudi-Iran tensions may threaten any OPEC deal
OPEC's thorniest dilemma of the past year - at least from a purely oil standpoint - is about to disappear.
Less than six months after...
Algeria turns to China for funds after drop in energy prices
Algeria is turning to China to finance several infrastructure projects, including a new $3.2 billion port, as the North African OPEC member looks for...
