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...announcement EU: December retail sales figures Germany: January factory orders data UK: BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, plus S&P Global construction PMI data Results: Alfa-Laval Q4, Amgen Q4, BP Q4, Eli...
...“I’m cautiously optimistic that we are at a turning point,” Molly Morris, head of Equinor Renewables, told Energy Source at the CERAWeek conference in Houston last week, but added that meeting the White...
...In September, Brent crude traded above $90 a barrel for the first time since November 2022, triggered by supply cuts from Saudi Arabia and Russia....
...The price of Brent crude meanwhile has fallen back to prewar levels....
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...Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, ended its best year since 2016 down 2.2 per cent for the day to $77.78 a barrel. Additional reporting by Naomi Rovnick in London...
...Europe’s Stoxx 600 closed down 0.3 per cent Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, traded below $100 for the first time in a fortnight....
...Brent crude passed $90 a barrel this week for the first time since 2014....
...Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, climbed 0.8 per cent to $74.54 a barrel....
...(FT) Tax expert’s test of ‘faith’ William Morris, deputy global tax policy leader at accounting giant PwC, is one of the former General Electric executives who negotiated a $1bn tax break that the UK now...
...The Brent price fell as much as 17 per cent in Asian trade to $15.98 a barrel. In morning European trading the price was about $17 a barrel....
...In the news Oil falls on doubts over deal Oil prices fell 12 per cent as markets reopened, with Brent crude falling to just over $30 a barrel....
...Brent, the international benchmark, also lost 6 per cent to $23.03 a barrel, its lowest level since 2002. The renewed pressure on oil prices dented investor confidence in global equity markets....
...Oil rebounded from Monday’s falls, with Brent crude, the international benchmark, up 1.9 per cent to more than $41 a barrel....
...On a bumper day for earnings other companies reporting include Twitter, Philip Morris, Pinterest and Wynn Resorts....
...But as Brent crude hovered around $62 a barrel on Thursday, doubts are mounting about scenarios that peg the benchmark above $70....
...Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, rose 3 per cent on Wednesday to $41.75 a barrel by late afternoon in London, after a smaller increase on Tuesday....
...Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, climbed 2.1 per cent to $60.36 a barrel as traders responded to the event....
...(FT) In the news Tobacco talks end Philip Morris International and Altria have ended their merger talks to create a $200bn tobacco giant....
...But the collapse of talks between Philip Morris International and Altria, two of the world’s largest cigarette companies, has moved the grizzled veterans of tobacco’s protracted legal and regulatory battles...
...Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, gained almost $12 to trade as high as $71.95 a barrel, before easing back to $65.21 in the European morning, still up 8.5 per cent....
...Investors are threatening to derail a deal to reunite tobacco giants Altria and Philip Morris International after wiping $13bn off the two companies’ combined market value....
...Meanwhile, Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, rose more than 1 per cent on Monday on the back of heightened political tension in the Middle East....
...The price of Brent crude — the international benchmark for oil — increased another 0.5 per cent on Monday. Last week it rose nearly 5 per cent, its biggest advance since early January....
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