By Reese Ewing SAO PAULO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Improved returns from sales at home and abroad are unleashing the first major flurry of investment in Brazil's struggling ethanol industry in nearly a decade, with at least nine companies expanding or building new capacity. Medium-sized pri
Read more(ShareCast News) - At what price might BP be forced to cut its dividend? That´s not what matters, the Financial Times´s Lex column said. Indeed, rival Eni reduced its payout but its stock has outperformed that of its rivals so far this year. The UK oil giant told investors that at $60 per barrel it
Read moreOSLO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Britain rose on Wednesday after unplanned outages at the Troll and the Kvitebjoern fields ended, data from gas system operator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe were running at 337 million cubic metres (mcm) per day by 1015 GMT, up 18 mcm from
Read more(ShareCast News) - London stocks finished on the back foot on Tuesday after a worse-than-forecast slowdown in third quarter UK economic growth. UK gross domestic product rose 0.5% in the third quarter compared to 0.7% in the second quarter, well below estimates for a 0.6% increase, the Office for Na
Read moreMOSCOW, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Russia's Rosneft, the world's top listed oil producer by output, will show "flexibility and resourcefulness" in dealing with Saudi oil in Europe, Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin told reporters. "We will enter new markets, diversify supplies," he added. (Repo
Read moreSINGAPORE, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The value of Russian ESPO crude weakened in the Asia-Pacific crude market, after premiums shot sharply higher earlier this month on Chinese and Japanese demand, traders said on Tuesday. Surgut sold an ESPO cargo loading Dec. 12-16 to a trader via a tender at a
Read more* BP announces more spending cuts, asset sales in coming years * Restructuring charges to rise by another $1 bln by end 2016 * Shares rise after profits beat expectations (Updates with Dudley interview) By Ron Bousso and Karolin Schaps LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - BP annou
Read moreOSLO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Britain and continental Europe were broadly steady on Tuesday, data from gas system operator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe were running at 301 million cubic metres (mcm) per day by around 0945 GMT, compared with 303 mcm delivered on Monday.
Read more(ShareCast News) - London stocks declined on Tuesday ahead of the release of UK gross domestic product data that is expected to show economic growth slowed in the third quarter. GDP, to be released at 0930 GMT, is forecast to ease to 0.6% in the third quarter from 0.7% in the second quarter. On a ye
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