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Investors have $490 billion riding on big OPEC decision

  Bloomberg After two tough years of falling oil prices and company valuations, investors in the world’s biggest energy producers have some cause for hope as crude prices continue their recovery from a 12-year low. They will be looking to OPEC not to dash it. Oil companies around the world have together added $490 billion to their market value this ...

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Crude rises as Iraq pledges to cooperate with pact

  Bloomberg Oil rose as Iraq pledged to cooperate with OPEC to reach an agreement this week that’s acceptable to all members. Futures rose as much as 2.7 percent in New York, reversing an earlier decline. Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said Monday he’s “ optimistic” a deal will be reached at OPEC’s summit in Vienna on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia ...

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Jordan picks firms for canal project

  AFP Jordan said on Monday it had chosen five international consortiums to build the first phase of a multi-million-dollar canal linking the Red Sea to the shrinking Dead Sea. The ambitious $1.1 billion project has been in the works for more than a decade and aims to provide much-needed water to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. It moved ...

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