21.05.2013
- Oil brought riches to Nigeria but also ravaged its economy and fuelled corruption and conflict. Now nearby Ghana has begun production and wants to take the wealth but dodge the oil...
21.05.2013
- Royal Dutch/Shell CEO Peter Voser may be making his last appearance on the podium at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, turning the spotlight on management's...
20.05.2013
- AstraZeneca is closing in on a site for its new $500 million home in Cambridge, with a biomedical park just south of the English city the most likely site, property industry...
20.05.2013
- Generic drugmaker Actavis, which has been the subject of takeover speculation, plans to buy specialty pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott for $5 billion in stock. The companies...
17.05.2013
- The deadline for claims against BP in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is 11 months away, but the man responsible for paying the claims said on Thursday he is...
17.05.2013
- For Germany's chemical producers, 2013 began without the hoped-for improvement in business, but at least there was no further deterioration, the industry association Verband der...
17.05.2013
- The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as...
16.05.2013
- Sweden's Recipharm has hired UBS to advise on either a partial sale of the pharmaceutical company or a listing on the Stockholm exchange, a source close to the process told Reuters...
16.05.2013
- A changing of the guard at Switzerland's two biggest drugmakers is fuelling talk that Novartis may finally sell its multi-billion-dollar stake in cross-town rival Roche...
16.05.2013
- Borealis, a provider of solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers, announces a net profit of €61 million compared to €140 million in the same quarter...
