By Ceyda Caglayan ISTANBUL, July 30 (Reuters) – Turkish steel makers are looking to expand in West Africa and other emerging markets in response to tariffs and planned quotas which threaten their…
Tag: Maritime disputes
L’aggressiva politica dell’Arabia Saudita ha fallito: il Qatar è piccolo, ma forte
La corte dell’Aja ha stabilito che il blocco imposto al Qatar dagli Emirati Arabi (insieme ad altre nazioni tra cui l’Arabia Saudita) è discriminatorio. Un precedente importante, che mostra l’illeggittimità e il…
Big Oil Leaves Analysts Fuming About Being in the Dark on Refinery Outages
Darren Woods, Ben van Beurden and Mike Wirth, three of the world’s most powerful oil executives, forged their reputations by efficiently managing razor-thin margins at their companies’ refineries. You wouldn’t know it,…
Summing Up the Trump Summits
NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki are history, as is the G7 summit in Quebec…
Taxing the intangible economy
By Roger E A Farmer/London Some very clever people, including the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, are expressing concerns…
Is Europe America’s friend or foe?
By Jean Pisani-Ferry/Paris Since Donald Trump became US president in January 2017, his conduct has been astonishingly erratic, but his policies have been more consistent than foreseen by most observers. Trump’s volatility…
Total’s Q2 profit jumps 44% to $3.6bn
French oil and gas major Total raised its 2018 sav- ings and oil production targets after a new record quarterly output, costs savings, and high oil prices lifted its net profit in…
BP pays $10.5bn for BHP shale assets to beef up US business
Reuters/Melbourne/London BP has agreed to buy US shale oil and gas assets from global miner BHP Billiton for $10.5bn, expanding the British oil major’s footprint in some of the nation’s most productive…
ExxonMobil second-quarter net income jumps 18% to $4bn
Higher Oil prices drove increased profits for US Oil giant ExxonMobil, but the earnings report yesterday missed analyst expectations due to natural gas outages and refining downtime. Net income jumped 18% in…
Vatican launches live translation app for papal events
Catholics can now listen to Pope Francis’ speeches live in five languages following the launch of a new smartphone app, the Vatican announced on Friday. Vatican Audio translates Francis, who usually addresses…