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Brent oil hits 4-month high on reports of output freeze deal

Global oil prices hit four-month highs on Tuesday, hovering just under $45 a barrel after a report that top producers Russia and Saudi Arabia...

Gulf OPEC members seek to revive global oil output deal

Gulf OPEC members including Saudi Arabia are looking to revive the idea of coordinated oil-output action by major producers when the group meets on...

Oil prices hold steady in Asia

The rally in oil prices extended into Asian trade Friday, a day after the main US contract broke $40 for the first time this...

Oil prices up in Asia ahead of OPEC meeting

Oil prices climbed in Asia Tuesday before a meeting of the OPEC oil cartel and a report on US commercial crude inventories which will...

Saudi Arabia says outcome of OPEC meeting unclear

The outcome of this week's OPEC meeting remains to be decided, Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Tuesday amid widespread expectations that the cartel will...

Pro-Brexit Boris Johnson says nothing will change in short term

Ex-London mayor Boris Johnson, a leading campaigner for Britain to leave the EU and the bookmakers' favourite to replace David Cameron as Prime Minister,...

South Korea builder confident of $20 billion Saudi housing deal

A South Korean constructor that jointly won a $20 billion housing deal with Saudi Arabia said Monday it was confident the project would go...

Liquidity crisis, jobs at risk at Middle East airlines

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Thursday that Middle East airlines are facing a liquidity crisis and hundreds of thousands of jobs...

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...

Oil ouput freeze already in place, says UAE

Emirati Oil Minister Suhail Mazrouei said Monday that current market prices are forcing most producers to freeze oil output levels, insisting it made "no...

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