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Energy firms plan to start 2017 with bankruptcy

  Bloomberg In the dying breaths of the year, the commodity price plunge claimed its latest victims as three energy companies outlined bankruptcy filing plans. Forbes Energy Services Ltd., Bonanza Creek Energy Inc. and Memorial Production Partners LP will use the US courts to restructure their borrowings, each said in regulatory filings. Bonanza and Memorial will give current shareholders some ...

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Egypt targets 5% economic growth by mid-2018

  Cairo / AFP Egypt targets a five percent economic growth rate in the year to June 2018, the finance ministry said on Sunday as the government seeks to revive an economy. Egyptian authorities have battled high unemployment, inflation and a collapse in tourism income since the 2011 uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowed ...

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Saudi paper retracts Aramco 49% stake sale plan story

  Bloomberg The Riyadh-based newspaper al-Eqtisadiah retracted a story saying Saudi Arabia is planning to sell almost half of Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world’s largest oil company known as Aramco. The stake that the government plans to sell and the time frame of the sale are different than what was mentioned in the story published on Saturday, al-Eqtisadiah said ...

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