Over the past week, Brent crude oil prices increased by 2.2%, prices for WTI oil - by 1.6%. On Friday, September futures for Brent crude rose 17 cents to 74 dollars 71 cents based on news about growing tensions in the Middle East. September ...
The US consumer goods producer Colgate-Palmolive in the second quarter increased its revenue by 1.6% year-on-year to $3 billion 886 million. Analysts had expected growth of up to 3 billion 916 million dollars. Net income was $637 million, increased ...
British oil and gas company BP intends to buy shale oil and gas fields owned by BHP Billiton, one of the world's largest mining companies, for $10.5 billion, Reuters reports. This deal will be the largest for BP in 20 years. Recently, it reported ...
The revenue of the American corporation Starbucks, the owner of the world's largest chain of coffee houses, in the third fiscal quarter increased by 11.5% and reached a record level of 6 billion 310 million dollars. Experts had predicted a ...
The US consumer confidence index in July fell to the lowest since January, to the value of 97.9 points from 98.2 points in June, according to the final data of the University of Michigan. The indicator of the attitude of American consumers ...
The second-largest US oil producer Chevron in the second quarter increased its net profit to 3 billion 410 million dollars from 1 billion 450 million dollars for the same period last year. Earnings per share were 1 dollar 78 cents, falling ...
US GDP in the second quarter rose at a maximum rate since 2014 and increased by 4.1% in annual terms after an increase of 2.2% in the previous quarter, preliminary data from the Ministry of Commerce showed. The annual growth in consumer spending ...
The US oil company ConocoPhillips reported that in the second quarter of 2018 it recorded a net profit of $1 billion 600 million dollars against a loss of 3 billion 400 million dollars for the same period last year. Profit without taking into ...
The European aerospace corporation Airbus Group in the first half of the year reduced its net profit 2.2 times year-on-year to 496 million euros. Its profit before tax and interest payments decreased by 8%. The decrease is explained, among ...
In Germany, a record amount of living space was recorded, despite the lack of housing in major cities and agglomerations. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office Destatis, the number of housing units at the end of 2017 reached almost ...
The British-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell in the second quarter of 2018 increased its net profit by 290%, in annual terms - to 6 billion 24 million dollars. Adjusted earnings rose by a third to $4 billion 600 million. Revenues amounted to ...
During trading on Thursday, oil prices changed in different directions. September futures for Brent crude by 14:03 Moscow time went up by 39 cents to 74 dollars 32 cents a barrel based on reports that Saudi Arabia would suspend supplies through ...
The net profit of the Japanese automaker Nissan Motor in the first fiscal quarter ended June fell 14% year-on-year to 115 billion 800 million yen, which was due to a significant drop in sales in the US and Europe, as well as higher raw material ...
The European Central Bank, following the results of the meeting on Thursday, as it was expected, left the benchmark interest rate on loans at zero level. The deposit rate is maintained at minus 0.4%, the rate for margin loans is at the level ...
The net profit of the German automotive company Daimler in the second quarter of 2018 was reduced to 1 billion 730 million euros from 2 billion 440 million euros for the same period last year. The decline was due to the negative impact of trade ...
In 2017, the expenses and investments of British families on average exceeded their income by 900 pounds, which is observed in the country for the first time since 1988. This was reported by the Office for National Statistics. Last year, the ...
Trade between China and Africa in 2017 grew by more than 200 times compared to 1987 and reached $170 billion, finversia.ru writes. According to Ernst&Young, China's investment in Africa at the end of 2016 grew 100 times over a decade and ...
The net profit of the American Coca-Cola, the world's largest producer of non-alcoholic beverages, grew 69% year-on-year in the second quarter to $2 billion 316 million. Adjusted earnings were 61 cents per share while the analyst had predicted ...
China National Petroleum Corporation intends to invest more than 150 billion yuan in increasing oil and gas production in the western region of Xinjiang to offset the decline in production in the aging fields in northeast China, Reuters reports. ...
Analysts at Evercore raised the forecast for the average Brent oil price in 2018 from $65 to $70 per barrel, in 2019 - from $70 to $75 per barrel. They believe that fuel reserves will decline, despite the increase in production by the OPEC ...