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
Russia becomes China's biggest supplier of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia and making up over half of China's oil imports. 2022-06-21
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
The Office of the United States Trade Representative publishes its finalized list of 279 Chinese goods, worth $16 billion, to be subject to a 25% tariff from August 23. $2018-08-7
A U.S. federal judge approves AT&T's $85 billion merger with Time Warner. $2018-06-12
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agrees to pay USD $9 billion to buy the parent of Texas power transmission company Oncor Electric Delivery. $2017-07-7
Russia and Saudi Arabia agree on a plan to manipulate oil output. 2016-09-5
An internal Chinese government report, mistakenly made public, shows that more than ten thousand corrupt officials transferred US$123 billion worth of embezzled funds out of the country over 15 years. $2011-06-17
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