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Amazon’s rapid rise put online giant on EU’s tax hit list

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is in the European Union’s cross hairs because its rapid expansion may have been fueled by tax measures that slashed its costs, according to the EU official spearheading a state-aid probe into the online giant. Gert-Jan Koopman, whose department at the European Commission was responsible for slapping Apple Inc. with a $15.6 billion tax repayment order last ...

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Saudi Arabia to launch tender for nuclear reactors next month

KHOBAR / Reuters Saudi Arabia is expected to launch a tender process for its first nuclear reactors as early as next month and will reach out to potential vendors from countries including South Korea, France and China, industry sources said. The world’s top oil exporter wants to start construction next year on two plants with a total capacity of up ...

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IEA sees risk of volatile oil prices on weak upstream investment

Bloomberg A dearth of new investment in oil production is stoking a risk of tighter crude supply and unstable prices, even as demand growth is expected to slow over the next five years, a senior International Energy Agency (IEA) official. The worldwide cushion of spare production capacity will shrink without further investment in exploration and output, Neil Atkinson, the head ...

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