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Russia wants to talk to OPEC about output cuts to bolster oil price
January 28th, 2016
Russian officials have decided they should talk to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries about output cuts to bolster oil prices, the head of Russia’s pipeline monopoly said on Wednesday, remarks that helped spur a sharp rise in world ...
OPEC, Russia talk of oil teamwork, but Saudi talks of investment
January 26th, 2016
Senior OPEC and Russian oil industry officials stepped up vague talk on Monday of possible joint action to remedy one of the worst supply gluts in decades, while Saudi Arabia signaled its resolve to allow the market to balance ...
Russian economy hit by oil price slide
January 25th, 2016
Russia’s economy contracted by 3.7% in 2015, according to preliminary figures published by the country’s statistics service. Retail sales plunged by 10% and capital investment fell by 8.4% in the economy’s worst performance since 2009. In contrast, Russian GDP ...
Russian Oil: Output Grows as Prospects Shrink
January 25th, 2016
Plummeting prices and U.S.-led sanctions raise questions about Russian oil’s capacity to continue underwriting Putin’s global ambitions In the frosty swamplands of West Siberia, the drilling rigs of oil giant OAO Lukoil are helping raise Russia’s oil output to its highest ...
S.Korean antitrust agency probes Volkswagen over emissions ads
January 22nd, 2016
South Korea’s antitrust regulator is probing Volkswagen AG over its advertising claims on emissions from its cars, an official at the agency told Reuters on Friday. The Fair Trade Commission official said a probe is under way without elaborating. ...
Government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers
January 19th, 2016
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has urged the government to adopt the technology that powers crypto-currency Bitcoin to run various public services. Bitcoins are powered by blockchains – digital ledgers that record information from Bitcoin transactions to DNA. Sir ...
Falling oil prices: How are countries being affected?
January 19th, 2016
Oil prices have fallen to their lowest level since 2003, sinking below $28 a barrel before recovering slightly on Monday. Analysts say the drop has been driven by oversupply, coupled with a fall in demand because of a slowdown ...
Is Bitcoin Breaking Up?
January 18th, 2016
Rift widening over how to deal with the size limits within the virtual currency’s ledger of transactions A prominent bitcoin developer has labeled the currency a failed experiment, widening the rift over an arcane but critical technical issue that ...
First-ever EU-wide cyber-security rules backed by Internal Market Committee
January 15th, 2016
Firms supplying essential services, e.g. for energy, transport, banking and health, or digital ones, such as search engines and cloud computing, will have to take action to improve their ability to withstand cyber-attacks under new rules approved by Internal ...
Are Bitcoin and Litecoin here to stay?
January 14th, 2016
How Bitcoin & Litecoin Could Fail One the most influential inventors of a cryptocurrency doesn’t believe that his invention, or Bitcoin for that matter, are necessarily here to stay. Litecoin was designed by Charlie Lee to be the so-called ...
