Sources: Reuters
The World Bank approves a new financial intermediary fund consisting of grants from the United States, Japan, Canada, and other countries coupled with interest from frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine as part of a $50 billion loan. $2024-10-10
Top oil and petrochemicals producers Iran and Venezuela sign a 20-year economic cooperation agreement. 2022-06-11
France's "Autorité de la concurrence" fines Google a record €500M ($593M) for breaching an April 2020 ruling that ordered the company to negotiate "in good faith" licensing deals with publishers and news agencies for any re-use of copyrighted content. The fine amounts to about 1.1% of the company's yearly profits. $2021-07-13
Sony agrees to a $2.3 billion deal where they will buy a controlling interest in EMI Music Publishing. The deal will mean that Sony would indirectly own 90% of the music publisher and its two million songs. $2018-05-21
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agrees to pay USD $9 billion to buy the parent of Texas power transmission company Oncor Electric Delivery. $2017-07-7
Tankers anchored in the Caribbean Sea are unable to deliver over four million barrels of crude oil, due to Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company being unable to pay for hull cleaning, inspections, and other port services. 2017-01-26
An explosion at an oil storage tank in Gibraltar closes the port and injures workers and cruise ship passengers. 2011-06-1
At least 27 people are killed and eighty injured after oil leaks from a pipeline near the town of Pakokku in Burma. 2010-10-25
German economy minister Rainer Bruederle criticizes the United States' monetary easing as indirectly manipulation of the USD exchange rates. $2010-10-23
Italian authorities seize 23 million euro (approximately US$30 million) from a Vatican bank account in a money laundering probe. $2010-09-21