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U.S., Canada to continue lumber trade talks as deadline passes

The top U.S. and Canadian trade negotiators said on Wednesday they would continue talks toward a new trade agreement on softwood lumber, despite the expiration of a “standstill” period prohibiting legal challenges over the long-standing dispute. U.S. producers complain that Canadian lumber is subsidized, and they have in the past launched trade challenges that resulted in the United …

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Energy ministers from OPEC and Russia hold informal talks in Istanbul

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Energy ministers from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Venezuela and Russia began informal closed-door talks with the secretary general of OPEC in Istanbul on Wednesday as they try to coordinate efforts to rebalance the oil market. OPEC officials are holding a flurry of meetings in coming weeks to nail down an agreement reached in Algiers last month on modest output cuts…

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Doha oil freeze talks face last-minute trouble

By Rania El Gamal and Reem Shamseddine DOHA (Reuters) – A meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers on an agreement to freeze output ran into last-minute trouble in Qatar on Sunday due to a new request by OPEC's de facto leader Saudi Arabia, sources told Reuters. Oil…

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Qatar urges VW to reduce labor influence: Bild

Qatar, the third-largest shareholder in Volkswagen , is urging the German carmaker to reduce the influence of its powerful trade unions as it battles to overcome its emissions scandal, a German

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