BP will start drilling off the Libyan coast within a few weeks, the Financial Times reported Saturday, amid a row over the oil giants connections to the north African state.
The head of the American Association of Professors accused BP Friday of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself after the Gulf oil spill, in a BBC interview.
Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell announced they would each contribute 250 million dollars to create a non-profit group, the Marine Well Containment Company, to contain oil. BP was not included in the plans.
Warren Buffett said Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is among the counterparties on derivative trades that contributed last year to a first-quarter loss at his Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Shares of Goldman Sachs slumped on Friday amid reports that the under-fire investment bank faced a criminal probe into its mortgage dealings ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.
The US Defence Department said Wednesday it was willing to issue a 60-day extension of the deadline for bids on a lucrative contract to build the next generation of aerial refuellers.
South African President Jacob Zuma ended his state visit to Britain Friday with talks with business leaders and an exchange of views on the environment and youth opportunities with Prince Charles.
According to recent revelations, Greece has been masking its vast debts. Just after adopting the euro in 2001, Athens secretely borrowed billions from Goldman Sachs but without declaring it as a loan.
Wall Streets top bankers on Wednesday faced a confrontational congressional panel tasked with getting to the bottom of a financial crisis that plunged the world into a devastating recession.
- In Somalia′s main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate.
Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction.