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(Bloomberg) — Libya’s biggest oilfield is gradually resuming production after a five-month shutdown as regional powers push to end the country’s civil war.The restart of the Sharara field in the southwest comes after a valve on a pipeline running to the port of Zawiya was opened on Friday, according to Ali El-Zeeb, the commander of the petroleum-facilities guards aligned with Libya’s internationally recognized government. Sharara was producing around 300,000 barrels a day before it shut in mid-January amid an offensive by Khalifa Haftar, who leads a rival military force based in the country’s east.The field’s resumption follows setbacks in recent …read more […]

AstraZeneca contacted Gilead last month and it did not provide the terms of any transaction, the report https://bloom.bg/3h2GU9e added. A spokeswoman for AstraZeneca said the company does comment on rumours or speculation. Gilead did not immediately respond to a request for comment. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Dubai shares climbed the most in the Gulf on after OPEC+ agreed to a one-month extension of its record output cuts, underpinning the recovery in oil prices.The DFM General Index rose as much as 3.0%, trimming losses this year to 24%. Gauges in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar gained between 0.2% and 1.6%.Major oil producers decided at the weekend on a production-curb extension as well as a stricter approach to ensuring OPEC members don’t break their pledges. Brent crude rose 19% last week in anticipation of the meeting, in the sixth consecutive weekly advance, with …read more […]

World Bank President David Malpass says billions of people will have their livelihoods affected. …read more […]

The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled in favor of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA) in a patent infringement lawsuit regarding a generic version of Narcan nasal spray for the treatment of opioid overdose.Claims from four patents related to Narcan were found to be invalid, according to the ruling by a New Jersey federal judge. The lawsuit, filed by Opiant Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OPNT) and Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (EBS) alleged that Teva’s generic version of Narcan nasal spray infringes the drug’s patent.In reaction to the decision, Opiant said that its commercial partner Emergent BioSolutions, intends to …read more […]

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Saudi Arabia called out the cheats at yesterday’s OPEC meeting — the countries that hadn’t fully reduced oil output in May as agreed — and extracted promises that they would compensate with even deeper reductions in the third quarter. Now the kingdom faces the group’s perennial problem of enforcing those promises.The meetings of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the bigger OPEC+ group, which includes Russia and nine other countries, were the shortest and least controversial since the latter collective was formed in 2016. It’s not that there was no drama; it just all took place …read more […]

Mexico will not join other top oil producers in extending through July output cuts aimed at propping up the price of crude, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said on Saturday. Made up of OPEC members and allies led by Russia, the group known as OPEC+ agreed in April to cut oil supply by 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd) in May and June to support prices. Under that deal, Mexico pledged to reduce its crude output by 100,000 bpd in May and June, after resisting pressure from other oil producers to make cuts of 400,000 bpd. …read more […]

After last week’s big moves across the global financial markets, the FED and geopolitics will be in focus along with a sprinkle of economic data… …read more […]

At the end of February we announced the arrival of the first US recession since 2009 and we predicted that the market will decline by at least 20% in (Recession is Imminent: We Need A Travel Ban NOW). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a reading on which direction each […] …read more […]

At the end of February we announced the arrival of the first US recession since 2009 and we predicted that the market will decline by at least 20% in (Recession is Imminent: We Need A Travel Ban NOW). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a reading on which direction each […] …read more […]

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The graph showed positive stock market changes after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and the police killings of Michael Brown and George Floyd. …read more […]

Before we spend countless hours researching a company, we like to analyze what insiders, hedge funds and billionaire investors think of the stock first. This is a necessary first step in our investment process because our research has shown that the elite investors’ consensus returns have been exceptional. In the following paragraphs, we find out […] …read more […]

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. Insider Monkey finished processing 821 13F filings submitted by hedge funds and prominent investors. These filings show these funds’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, 2020. […] …read more […]

We at Insider Monkey have gone over 821 13F filings that hedge funds and prominent investors are required to file by the SEC The 13F filings show the funds’ and investors’ portfolio positions as of March 31st, near the height of the coronavirus market crash. In this article, we look at what those funds think […] …read more […]