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Glencore, Qatar commit $3bn in equity to Rosneft stake

  Bloomberg Glencore Plc and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund are using 2.8 billion euros ($3 billion) in equity and $7.8 billion in financing from a bank consortium led by Italian lender Intesa Sanpaolo SpA to buy their stake in Russian oil company Rosneft PJSC. The financing will be backed by the two companies’ shares in the oil group, Rosneft said …

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Tunisian parliament approves $14bn budget for 2017

  TUNIS / Reuters Tunisia’s parliament approved a 32.7 billion dinar ($14.1 billion) budget for next year, including deficit cutting measures that had been watered down under pressure from unions. From a total of 217 lawmakers in parliament, 122 voted in favour of the finance bill. Earlier this week parliament struck out two key revenue raising measures and the government …

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Qatar to merge state-owned LNG producers Qatargas and RasGas

  DOHA/ Reuters Qatar will merge state-owned liquefied natural gas producers Qatargas and RasGas Co Ltd, the chief executive of Qatar Petroleum (QP) said on Sunday, in the Gulf state’s latest reaction to lower energy prices. While Qatar is more focused on gas than oil, it too has been forced into reorganisations, with QP already going through a process that …

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