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Crude prices edge up amid freeze talks

AFP World oil prices nudged higher on Tuesday as OPEC producers met to discuss a possible freeze to crude output levels in a bid to tackle a supply glut. Around 1300 GMT, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in April was up one cent at $33.40 a barrel. Brent North Sea crude for April rose 18 cents to $34.87 ...

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Brexit would ‘threaten jobs’, warn UK business leaders

London / AFP The bosses of more than a third of Britain’s top companies on Tuesday urged voters to keep the country in the European Union, warning that an exit from the bloc would threaten jobs. Some 198 business leaders including Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Systems, BP CEO Bob Dudley and Ron Dennis, chief of F1 team McLaren, wrote ...

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Swiss Re says CEO to retire as net profit soars

Zurich Switzerland-based reinsurance giant Swiss Re said on Tuesday its chief executive was retiring, and posted a 31-percent hike in net profit in 2015 as the costs linked to natural disasters slid. Swiss Re said its chief executive Michel Lies, 62, was set to retire after 35 years in the company and would be replaced on July 1 by the ...

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