Energy Update
TORONTO, April 28 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index
edged slightly lower on Thursday as losses for financials and
other sectors offset gains for gold miners and Bombardier Inc
after the company won a large plane order.
April 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors charged political
strategist Joao Santana, the architect of President Dilma
Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 election victories, with corruption on
Thursday.
Below are some of the main events in the investigation
focused on state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or
Petrobras.
Polypropylene import pricing was $20/mt higher for the week in Brazil, with homopolymer assessed April 27 at $1,205-$1,215/mt CFR Brazil.
US linear low-density export assessments rose $33-$34/mt week on week as prices continued to be talked higher.
CURITIBA, Brazil, April 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors
charged political strategist Joao Santana, the architect of
President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 election victories, and
16 others with corruption on Thursday as part of a massive graft
investigation.
NEW YORK, April 28 (Reuters) - Oil companies and speculators
have piled into complex, high-risk spread options, betting that
oil prices will extend their recent rally on tightening supplies
and resurgent exports, the latest sign of growing optimism in
the world's top energy market.
LONDON, April 28 (Reuters) - An Indian-flagged oil tanker is
returning to Libya, the North African country's rival oil
corporation said on Thursday, after its failed first attempt to
export crude oil led to the ship being blacklisted by the United
Nations Security Council.
BENGHAZI, Libya, April 28 (Reuters) - The head of a parallel
National Oil Corporation (NOC) set up by Libya's eastern
government said on Thursday that a tanker carrying its first
intended oil export shipment was being diverted to the western
port of Zawiya, but the company would continue to fight for its
right to sell crude.
ERBIL, Iraq, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe
Biden made an unannounced visit on Thursday to Erbil, the
capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, to show support for
the Kurdish government.
DAKAR, April 28 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's President
Teodoro Obiang Nguema has won re-election, securing 93.7 percent
of votes cast in an April 24 poll to extend his 37-year rule
over the Central African oil producer, a government statement
said on Thursday.
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