Economy
Tokyo slide keeps mood downbeat
May 2, 2016
Tokyo slide keeps mood downbeat
A 3 percent plunge in the Tokyo stock exchange and falls in European banking shares added to a gloomy global…
Kuwait freedoms make austerity drive tricky for government
May 2, 2016
Kuwait freedoms make austerity drive tricky for government
A three-day strike by oil workers in Kuwait last month over pay reforms shows the government faces considerable opposition as…
Halliburton and Baker Hughes scrap $28 billion merger
May 2, 2016
Halliburton and Baker Hughes scrap $28 billion merger
Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co (HAL.N) and smaller rival Baker Hughes Inc (BHI.N) announced the termination of their $28 billion…
Daimler hires Deloitte for internal emissions probe
May 1, 2016
Daimler hires Deloitte for internal emissions probe
Daimler (DAIGn.DE) has hired auditor Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to help with an internal investigation into its diesel-engine emissions technology requested…
Blacklisted oil tanker returns to Libya’s Zawiya port
May 1, 2016
Blacklisted oil tanker returns to Libya’s Zawiya port
A tanker that Libya's rival eastern government had been using to try to export oil in defiance of the Western-backed…
IEA chief says oil price bottoming depends on global growth
May 1, 2016
IEA chief says oil price bottoming depends on global growth
International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol said on Sunday that oil prices may have bottomed out, providing that the…
Apple’s stock suffers worst week since 2013
April 30, 2016
Apple’s stock suffers worst week since 2013
Apple Inc on Friday ended its worst week on the stock market since 2013 as worries festered about a slowdown…
Refining’s silver lining loses luster at Exxon and Chevron
April 30, 2016
Refining’s silver lining loses luster at Exxon and Chevron
Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corpon Friday reported their most dismal quarterly results in more than a decade on low…
Mitsubishi Motors has cash to weather mileage scandal, but brand battered, again
April 29, 2016
Mitsubishi Motors has cash to weather mileage scandal, but brand battered, again
Mitsubishi Motors' (MMC) (7211.T) market value and Japanese orders have halved since it admitted last week to rigging fuel economy…
Amazon profit crushes estimates as cloud-service revenue soars
April 29, 2016
Amazon profit crushes estimates as cloud-service revenue soars
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Thursday reported profit and revenue that blew past analysts' expectations, sending its shares soaring in after-hours…