Category: BUSINESS

Tentative Oil Price Recovery Lifts Energy Stocks

Tentative Oil Price Recovery Lifts Energy Stocks

Jun 23, 2017

World stocks were poised to eke out slim gains for the week on Friday as a tentative recovery in oil ... Read More

Statistics on Drop of Agriculture Products in First Quarter

Statistics on Drop of Agriculture Products in First Quarter

Jun 23, 2017

  Department of Census and Statistics has Taken a Census in the Agriculture Sector. It revealed a drop of 3.2% ... Read More

Asian Stocks Rise as Oil Tries to Claw up From 10-Month low

Asian Stocks Rise as Oil Tries to Claw up From 10-Month low

Jun 22, 2017

Asian stocks advanced on Thursday as oil prices struggled to climb off a 10-month low hit overnight on concerns over ... Read More

Iraq Beats Saudis to Become Oil King in Fastest-Growing Market

Iraq Beats Saudis to Become Oil King in Fastest-Growing Market

Jun 14, 2017

Iraq is gaining the edge over Saudi Arabia in the world’s fastest-growing oil consumer amid an intensifying race among producers ... Read More

Opening a Foreign Currency Account in SL Banks with USD500,000 or Equivalent

Opening a Foreign Currency Account in SL Banks with USD500,000 or Equivalent

Jun 9, 2017

The government of Srilanka is reported to have been preparing legislation to permit foreign nationals to open foreign currency accounts ... Read More

Oil Dips on Glut Concerns, but Mideast Tension, Falling U.S. Stocks Support

Oil Dips on Glut Concerns, but Mideast Tension, Falling U.S. Stocks Support

Jun 7, 2017

Oil prices dipped on Wednesday, with Brent crude futures around $50 per barrel, as fuel markets remained oversupplied, although tension ... Read More

Oil Prices Slide Over Worries Middle East Rift will Undermine Output Cuts

Oil Prices Slide Over Worries Middle East Rift will Undermine Output Cuts

Jun 6, 2017

Oil prices fell for a third day on Tuesday, hit by concerns that a political rift between Qatar and several ... Read More

Qatar row: Economic Impact Threatens Food, Flights and Football

Qatar row: Economic Impact Threatens Food, Flights and Football

Jun 5, 2017

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Libya and Yemen have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar. But what might ... Read More

Oil jumps as Qatar ditched, London attacks hurt sterling

Oil jumps as Qatar ditched, London attacks hurt sterling

Jun 5, 2017

Oil jumped after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar on Monday while sterling ... Read More

Oil prices tumble 3% to three-week low; OPEC crude output up

Oil prices tumble 3% to three-week low; OPEC crude output up

Jun 1, 2017

Oil prices tumbled three per cent to a three-week low on Wednesday (May 31) as an increase in Libyan output ... Read More

Asia stocks drift down from 2-year highs, pound nurses losses

Asia stocks drift down from 2-year highs, pound nurses losses

May 29, 2017

Asian stocks handed back earlier modest gains and drifted lower on Monday, running short of incentives to push past two-year ... Read More

OPEC Ponders How to co-exist With U.S. Shale Oil

OPEC Ponders How to co-exist With U.S. Shale Oil

May 28, 2017

First, they ignored each other. Then, they went into a bruising fight. Finally, they are talking, albeit with opposing agendas. ... Read More

Asia shares race to two-year high as Fed signals no rush to tighten

Asia shares race to two-year high as Fed signals no rush to tighten

May 25, 2017

Asian shares scaled two-year highs on Thursday while the dollar and U.S. bond yields slipped after the U.S. Federal Reserve ... Read More

OPEC, non-OPEC hold informal talks to nail new oil cuts

OPEC, non-OPEC hold informal talks to nail new oil cuts

May 24, 2017

OPEC and non-OPEC ministers meet for informal consultations in Vienna on Wednesday in a last-ditch bid to agree the duration ... Read More

Sterling slips after Manchester blast, euro steady, stocks advance

Sterling slips after Manchester blast, euro steady, stocks advance

May 23, 2017

Sterling slipped on Tuesday after a suspected suicide attack killed at least 19 people and wounded 59 at a pop ... Read More