There’s a perverse competition among some U.S. presidential candidates: Who can most loudly blame Wall Street for the problems of Main Street. They’ve got it wrong. Financial firms do more to assist consumers, business and industry in America compared to what they have in decades. And for the first time since the early many years of the Twenty-first century, global ...

U.S. hotel operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc received a higher buyout offer from a consortium led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group that could derail Marriott International Inc’s planned takeover of Starwood. Marriott said it remained committed to the offer, which would create the world’s largest hotel chain with top brands including Sheraton, Ritz Carlton and the Autograph Collection. ...

Iranian oil production climbed recently through the most in almost two decades following the end of international sanctions, according to OPEC. Iran increased output by 187,800 barrels a day to 3.13 million a day in February, the largest monthly gain since 1997, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said in the monthly report. Supply from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela ...

Aubrey McClendon’s car was traveling 78 miles per hour when it crashed, killing him on March 2, the Oklahoma City police said Monday. The shale oil pioneer’s 2013 Chevy Tahoe hit a wall and burst into flames on the two-lane road close to the city. McClendon tapped on the brakes many times, but didn’t act to slow the automobile in the ...

It’s not standard but it is generally the norm when an acquisition doesn’t close. We are referring to events at Madalena Energy, a TSX-Venture listed company, which announced Monday that due to “prevailing market conditions,” it has elected not to proceed with the purchase of an additional 10 % working curiosity about the Coiron Amargo block in Argentina and the ...

Mercifully, Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr wasn’t in Washington when Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. doesn’t need anymore Canadian pipelines. You see, unlike Justin Trudeau’s in-laws, Carr didn’t result in the cut for the official visit with the Pm, although the U.S. trades more resources with Canada than any other country in the world undoubtedly. That’s ...

Airfares are falling around the world but that isn’t affecting the financial performance of North America’s airlines, based on a new report by the International Air Transport Association. Average global airfares fell 4.5 per cent in 2015 when adjusted for the higher U.S. dollar and are likely to still decline this year as fuel hedging contracts unwind, said IATA, the ...

BERLIN — Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion euro suit against the carmaker for which they see as breaches of their capital markets duty within the emissions scandal, what the law states firm representing them said. The lawsuit, for damages of 3.256 billion euro (US$3.61 billion), was filed at a regional court in Braunschweig in VW’s ...