07.11.2017
- Doubt continues to be cast on whether Saudi Arabia’s planned initial public offering of 5% of its shares in national flagship oil and petrochemicals group Saudi Aramco will go...
16.12.2016
- Brazilian polyolefins producer Braskem has agreed to pay fines and indemnities worth $957 million relating to the “car wash” scandal that erupted in 2014. The company has signed a...
23.09.2016
- Brazilian oil giant Petrobras is planning to exit its petrochemical investments and other activities as it seeks to accelerate its debt reduction. The troubled Rio de Janeiro-based...
11.05.2016
- Romanian prosecutors have seized the assets of Rompetrol’s Petromidia refining and petrochemicals complex as part of an investigation into the company’s privatization, which took...
23.09.2014
- GlaxoSmithkline (GSK), the UK's largest pharmaceutical producer, will pay the Chinese government nearly $500 million in fines after being found guilty of offering bribes to...
30.10.2013
- Barrier To Business - One of the defining trends of the past three decades has been globalization. In order to take advantage of low-cost labor in emerging economies, companies...
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...
07.02.2013
- Milan prosecutors have put Paolo Scaroni, head of Italy's Eni, under investigation in a probe into alleged bribes by Saipem, in which Eni is the largest investor, to win contracts...
