By Sara Sjolin, MarketWatch. LONDON (MarketWatch) - European stock markets held on to gains in afternoon trade on Thursday, after the European Central Bank kept its key lending rate unchanged, with investors awaiting to ECB President Mario Draghi's ...

Blackstone-Owned Shipper's Bid for Loan Guarantee Denied. By Jeff Plungis and Bernard Kohn - 2012-08-02T04:00:01Z. A U.S. agency rejected American Petroleum Tankers Parent LLC's application for $340 million in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees, ...

Canadian companies are daring to go where others are pulling back -- Europe. Corporations and pension funds from the second-fastest- growing nation in the Group of Seven are on a European buying spree, boosting spending on deals in the region by 58 ...

As I have stated in previous articles, it is my investing goal to outperform the S&P 500. Most years, I have been able to do that.

By Nathalie Tadena. Transocean Ltd. (RIG, RIGN.VX) swung to a second-quarter loss as contingencies for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the U.S.

--Brazil could have another five to six IPOs by December - Credit Suisse's Kayath. --Brazilian stocks could rebound in the next six to 12 months - Kayath.

Nigeria's revised oil industry bill will help increase the country's crude output by attracting foreign investors, Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke said today.

Edited by Jennie Pearce. Chevron Corporation (CVX) is one of the world's leading integrated energy corporations, involved in every facet of the energy industry.

U.S. oil major Chevron Corp. (CVX) and drilling company Transocean Ltd. (RIG) face another legal hurdle in Brazil, where a court late Tuesday handed down an injunction banning the companies from producing or transporting oil until an investigation into ...

(Adds more quotes, details throughout). By Hassan Hafidh. Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan said Wednesday it will resume crude oil exports from the region at 100000 barrels a day as it wants to reach amicable agreement with the Baghdad ...