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Alberta output-cut mandate may be driving oil prices up

Bloomberg Alberta’s plan to boost crude prices through mandatory production cuts is working a little too well. Just over a week after Premier Rachel Notley announced that oil producers will be required to curtail output by 8.7 percent, the price of heavy Canadian crude has more than do- ubled, in some ca-ses rendering Wes-tern Canadian Sel- ect too expensive to ...

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Angola seeks to jumpstart oil exploration

Bloomberg Angola’s state-run oil and gas company is ramping up efforts to lure foreign investors and halt a decline in crude output. Once Africa’s biggest oil producer, output has tumbled in recent years due to under-investment in new projects and natural declines at aging fields. If it fails to halt this decline it will put severe strain on an economy ...

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SoftBank Vision Fund, Alibaba lead $1.1bn Tokopedia round

Bloomberg SoftBank Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. led a $1.1 billion investment in PT Tokopedia, a financing round that will help Indonesia’s biggest online marketplace venture beyond e-commerce into new areas such as air tickets and insurance. The company was valued at more than $7 billion after the funding, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked ...

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