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Oil heads for biggest weekly loss in eight months despite gains

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Bloomberg an agreement between oil exporters to freeze output would be the right decision to support the market. “Prices are up on a weaker dollar in the aftermath of the U.S. ISM numbers yesterday and Putin's latest attempt to stabilize

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Oil falls on persistent glut fears, China data supports

By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Crude futures dipped below $47 a barrel on Friday on concerns that a persistent global glut of crude oil and refined products will impede any price recovery. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were down 50 cents at $45.18 a barrel. While the price collapse over the past two years has led to

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Viacom names CEO Dauman as chair as Redstone exits; daughter protests

By Jessica Toonkel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Viacom Inc's board of directors named Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman as executive chairman, replacing majority owner Sumner Redstone, overriding calls for an independent board chief from Redstone's …

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Smirking Shkreli refuses lawmakers’ questions, calls them ‘imbeciles’

By Sarah N. Lynch and David Ingram WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former drug executive Martin Shkreli smirked and brushed off questions about drug prices then tweeted that lawmakers were imbeciles on Thursday, when he appeared at a U.S. congressional hearing against his will. Shkreli, 32, sparked outrage last year among patients, medical societies and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, raised the price of the drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent to $750 a pill. At a hearing of the U.S. House…

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China’s economy grew by around 7 percent in 2015, services made up half of GDP – Premier

China's gross domestic product (GDP) totaled more than $10 trillion in 2015 and the economy grew by around 7 percent, with the services sector accounting for half of GDP, Premier Li

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Citigroup, Wells Fargo gird for loan losses as oil price dives

Wells Fargo & Co raised provisions against soured assets by more than 70 percent, nearly half of them for oil and gas loans, to ensure it is covered should prices stay at current levels for the rest of the year. The San Francisco-based bank, a major lender to the U.S. energy industry, said it and other banks were talking to borrowers, including production companies and oil services firms, about how to navigate the crunch. Citigroup Inc set aside $250 million to cover losses related to its energy portfolio …

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Alibaba names new head of anti-counterfeiting, IP unit

(Reuters) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd appointed Matthew Bassiur as head global intellectual property enforcement to oversee the company's anti-counterfeiting and intellectual property rights protection efforts. The appointment comes days after the Chinese e-commerce giant avoided being named on a U.S. blacklist for sites hosting the sale of fake goods. Alibaba's Taobao Marketplace and Alibaba.com were both previously on the piracy blacklist, which highlights markets

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Oil prices hit eleven-year low as global supply balloons

By Catherine Ngai NEW YORK (Reuters) – Brent crude oil prices hit their lowest in more than 11 years on Monday, while U.S. crude flirted with seven-year lows on more signs that swelling global supply looked set to outpace tepid demand again next year. Global oil production is running close to record highs and, with more barrels poised to enter the market

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Martin Shkreli says securities fraud charges are ‘baseless’

By Frank McGurty NEW YORK (Reuters) – Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceuticals entrepreneur vilified for jacking up the price of a life-saving AIDS drug, said on Saturday that unrelated securities fraud allegations that resulted in his arrest this week were “baseless and without merit.” Federal prosecutors have alleged that Shkreli was running a Ponzi-like scheme at his former hedge fund and a company he headed …

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