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Traders again shrugged off a pledge by Saudi Arabia to increase its oil production if needed and oil prices rose Monday, with the focus on disruptions to Nigerian supply and heightened Middle East tensions.Saudi Arabia said Sunday it would produce more...
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Swiss banking giant UBS AG agreed Friday to buy back nearly $20 billion in auction-rate securities from investors, a day after Citigroup Inc. reached a similar...
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Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom,...
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Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as...
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The commodities boom that just weeks ago looked unstoppable may have finally burned itself out.
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BMW defines grand style and thats how BMW 7 series was launched at the Red Square in Moscow! It was unveiled in the world’s largest hourglass filled with silvery...
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Treasury prices dropped Friday as the falling price of oil sent investors rushing back into the stock market.
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Oil prices dove to $115 a barrel on Friday, driven lower by a huge jump in the U.S. dollar, signs of moderating fuel demand around the world and the growing belief in...
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Phone companies have been feeling the heat from cable companies for years, as those traditional TV providers have expanded their own phone services and fought hard for...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland posted first-half losses Friday that weren’t nearly as bad as some analysts had feared, rounding out what is shaping up to be a...
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The U.S. dollar was higher against other major currencies in European trading Friday. Gold fell.
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Agriculture futures traded lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Oil prices resumed their descent Friday, dropping briefly below $116 a barrel as a huge jump in the U.S. dollar and expectations of slowing global demand offset supply...
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Stocks rebounded Friday from a sell-off a day earlier as a sharp drop in oil prices eased worries over a quarterly loss from mortgage finance company Fannie Mae that...
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Union workers and officials at the Tyson Foods plant in Shelbyville, Tenn. have agreed to reinstate Labor Day as a paid holiday, but the plant will also observe a...
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Two unions representing 65,000 workers at Verizon Communications Inc. have set a Sunday night deadline for contract talks, saying a strike is possible next week.
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Stocks rebounded Friday from a sell-off a day earlier as a sharp drop in oil prices eased worries over a quarterly loss from mortgage finance company Fannie Mae that...
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Two unions representing 65,000 workers at Verizon Communications Inc. are setting a Sunday night deadline for contract talks. They say a strike is possible next week.
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A Nigerian military spokesman says gunmen have kidnapped two more foreign workers in the country’s southern oil region.
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Oil prices fluctuated Monday after an attack by militants on Nigerian oil pipelines and comments by Iran’s president suggested a significant increase in the...
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Nigerian foreign affairs minister says the African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to defer the indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a year.ICC...
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Oil prices spiked to a new record above $147 a barrel Friday, as rising hostilities between the West and Iran and the potential for attacks on Nigerian oil facilities...
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The Nigerian government charged two former aviation ministers Wednesday with misusing a $165-million fund set up to improve air safety after three airplane...
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Chevron Corp. says a breached Nigerian pipeline has caused the company to shut down its onshore oil production.Chevron said in a statement Saturday that it shut its...
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Oil prices edged up Thursday amid news that a Nigerian militant group attacked an oil installation, raising concerns about possible supply outages in Africa’s...
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The dollar fell against the euro Thursday as oil prices looked set to rise on reports of a Nigerian oil field attack.The euro bought $1.5566 in European morning...
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Royal Dutch Shell says it has shut down production at a Nigerian oil field that produces about 200,000 barrels per day after a militant attack.A Nigerian militant...
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Oil prices fell Thursday in Asia as the threat of a disruption to Nigerian oil production diminished with a report that a planned workers’ strike had been...
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Oil prices rose Wednesday, rebounding from earlier losses on reports that Nigerian oil workers are about to strike and as investors focused on a surprise decline in...
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Assailants attacked a Nigerian navy vessel Monday in the country’s restive southern oil region, leaving one sailor dead and several wounded, officials said.The...
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Oil futures rose Wednesday, recovering from early losses as threats against Nigerian oil facilities led investors to set aside concerns about falling U.S. gas demand.At...
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Dozens of men on horseback armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades ambushed Nigerian peacekeepers serving with the joint U.N.-African Union force in...
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Dozens of Nigerian troops were killed with a petrol tanker slammed into a military convoy that was taking them back to their base in the country’s north, the army...
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Some 800,000 residents were forcibly evicted from their homes in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, over a four-year period to make way for development in the fast-growing...
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Security and medical officials say Egyptian border police have fatally shot a Nigerian man who was trying to cross illegally into Israel.The security official says the...
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Oil prices edged up Monday, supported by weekend news of an attack on a Nigerian oil installation, but the gains were limited by the recent strengthening of the U.S....
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Oil prices rose Monday, supported by weekend news of an attack on a Nigerian oil installation, but with gains limited by a stronger U.S. dollar.Royal Dutch Shell PLC...
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