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  DOHA / Reuters Qatar has lifted a self-imposed moratorium on development of the world’s biggest natural gas field after more than a decade, the chief executive of state energy company Qatar Petroleum said on Monday. The giant Gulf gas field, which Doha calls the North Field and Iran calls South Pars, accounts for nearly all of Qatar’s gas production ...

  Reuters Kuwait is set to import fuel oil to use mainly in power generation for about a year following the start-up of the Clean Fuel project by 2018, the chief executive of state refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) said. Fuel oil to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Electricity and Water is currently being produced from the ...

  Bloomberg As they search for a permanent exchange-rate framework, Iceland’s policy makers are finding they may disagree on some pretty fundamental issues. Power politics in the 340,000-people nation are being laid bare, as the nation’s prime minister, who heads the establishment Independence Party, and its finance minister, a former publishing executive who leads the newly created Reform Party, are ...

  Bloomberg Bombardier Inc. will defer paying more than half of last year’s planned compensation for its six most highly paid executives until 2020 as the planemaker, whose recovery was kick-started by taxpayer funds, bows to widespread indignation in its home province of Quebec. The deferred amounts will only be payable if Bombardier achieves its performance objectives, Chief Executive Officer ...

  Bloomberg UK manufacturing unexpectedly cooled for a third month in March and may weaken further, according to IHS Markit, which repeated its warning about inflationary pressures. Its factory Purchasing Managers Index declined to 54.2 from 54.5 in February, above the key 50 level that divides expansion from contraction, but below economists’ expectations for an uptick to 55. A measure ...

Bloomberg Optimism among UK chief financial officers climbed to an 18-month high in the weeks before Prime Minister Theresa May formalized Britain’s intention to leave the European Union. Almost one-third of CFOs said they are more optimistic about prospects for their company than they were three months ago, according to Deloitte’s first-quarter survey. That’s up from 3 percent immediately following ...

  Bloomberg Imagination Technologies Group Plc shares plunged as much as 69 percent after the UK chip designer said Apple Inc. will stop using its intellectual property in new products, setting the stage for a clash with its biggest customer. The iPhone maker has informed Imagination Technologies that it will cease using its graphics technology for new products, including phones, ...

  WASHINGTON / AP It sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final results of a large study suggest. Many doctors are skeptical of the therapy, called tumor treating fields, and it’s not a cure. ...

  Emirates Business BlackBerry Limited on Monday shared new details on its broad licensing strategy which addresses the growing need for secure, connected devices and endpoints in today’s Enterprise of Things. The first phase of BlackBerry’s strategy, announced in September 2016, was focused on providing the most secure and comprehensive Android software for smartphones around the world manufactured and marketed ...

  Bloomberg With the sweep of a single executive order, President Donald Trump unwound the Obama-era framework of regulations designed to combat climate change and announced that he was “putting an end to the war on coal.” But not everyone in high-tech is ready to return to the age of fossil fuels. Mike Cassidy, who was formerly vice president at ...