Tag: Oil

Wall Street opens higher, helped by JPMorgan, oil

Thu Jan 14, 2016/Reuters U.S. stocks opened slightly higher on Thursday as oil prices rose and JPMorgan’s strong results boosted bank stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 54.24 points, or 0.34 percent, at 16,205.65. The S&P 500 was up 6.09 points, or 0.32 percent, at 1,896.37 and the […]

Standard Chartered enters Angola’s booming bank sector

Standard Chartered has opened a corporate bank in Angola, the London-listed group said on Monday, underscoring growing interest in Africa’s biggest oil producing country after Nigeria. Angola has seen rapid economic growth since the end of a civil war in 2002, helping attract foreign banks such as Africa’s top lender […]

Standard Chartered enters Angola’s booming bank sector

Standard Chartered has opened a corporate bank in Angola, the London-listed group said on Monday, underscoring growing interest in Africa’s biggest oil producing country after Nigeria. Angola has seen rapid economic growth since the end of a civil war in 2002, helping attract foreign banks such as Africa’s top lender […]