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Lower oil prices raise risk of US oil firms defaulting

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UNITED STATES

US energy bond market.

Shell-BG deal to herald more energy M&A globally

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INTERNATIONAL

That deal marked the last of a series of large merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the oil and gas sector in the late 1990s, sparked by a fall in energy prices of a similar…

Prospects for the global economy to end-2022

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PROSPECTS

Prospects for the global economy to end-2022.

Investment in Africa's palm oil sector will grow

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AFRICA

The finding is symptomatic of an array of controversies surrounding the wider palm oil industry in the region, which is set for robust growth.

COVID-19 adds to Afghan fiscal and political pressures

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AFGHANISTAN

The government is struggling to manage the health crisis and is distracted by peace negotiations, the impending US troop withdrawal and its own factional infighting.

Financial innovations will evolve with global farming

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INTERNATIONAL

Financial innovation in European agriculture

Brexit will be damaging for UK-EU services trade

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UK/EU

Even if it succeeds, this will have a greater disruptive impact on the trade in services than goods, because the EU’s single market enables greater cross-border services trade…

EU-US economic ties will survive testing US policies

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INTERNATIONAL

EU-US ties.

3-D printing will upend conventional manufacturing

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INTERNATIONAL

Medicine has been one of the pioneering areas of 3-D printing, which itself is one of the most significant current developments in manufacturing. The technology could…

Manama will struggle to vary its investor offering

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BAHRAIN

The Economic Development Board (EDB), the country’s investment promotion agency, announced in March that its ‘golden licence’ scheme of incentives for local and foreign investors…