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Kuwait launches foreign bond sale to finance deficit

  AFP Kuwait will issue billions of dollars worth of bonds in international markets to finance a budget deficit resulting from low oil prices, a report said Saturday. Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh said Kuwait will issue US dollar-denominated sovereign bonds of up to $9.6 billion during the 2016/2017 fiscal year which ends March 31, Al-Qabas newspaper reported. This comes on ...

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Libya accuses Goldman Sachs of bribery in bid to appeal lawsuit

  Bloomberg The Libyan Investment Authority tried to resurrect its lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. by adding new accusations of bribery, less than a month after a crushing courtroom defeat in London. But Judge Vivien Rose said at a hearing that the appeal had no chance of success and ordered the sovereign wealth fund to pay Goldman at least ...

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Oil driller vows to change ways after restructuring

  Bloomberg After emerging this week from one of the largest-ever energy-industry debt restructurings, Pacific Exploration & Production Corp. has a new ticker on the Toronto stock exchange and a new mantra: discipline. The oil and gas producer will target profit rather than growing production at all costs, and limit its geographic focus to Colombia and Peru after divesting assets ...

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