One of Ophir Energy Plc’s earliest investors and an influential London banker, Ian Hannam, is adding to pressure the exploration company is facing over a takeover plan.

The hefty premium investors demanded to hold Oman’s Eurobonds rather than those of lower-rated Bahrain has just vanished.

Centrica Plc plunged to the lowest in almost two decades after tougher trading conditions in the U.K. energy market prompted the utility to forecast a gloomy outlook for next year.

In a belated response to falling fresh-water levels in desert areas, Chile is moving to protect a natural resource that has been depleted after decades of mining activity.

More than half the registered voters in Republican-controlled South Carolina supported Donald Trump in a poll last month, but there’s at least one area where state leaders are ditching the president to join rival Democrats: a fight against oil exploration off the Atlantic coast.

Rwanda says improved farming methods and the introduction of higher-yielding varieties will help double earnings from coffee to about $130 million in the next six years.

European stocks fluctuated between gains and losses at Thursday’s open as optimism over trade talks was countered by a spat over coal imports between Australia and China. Barclays shares jumped as the British lender announced a buyback plan.

South African Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is optimistic that the nation’s cash-strapped power utility and labor unions can find a “constructive solution” to cutting costs at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which will receive a 69 billion-rand ($4.9 billion) cash injection from the state.

Oman plans to slash its borrowing requirements for 2019 by as much as 70 percent and rely on asset sales to plug one of the largest budget deficits among oil exporters, according to a senior government official.

Zimbabwean Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said the country’s inflation rate, which surged to the highest annual level since a hyperinflation blowout a decade ago, is being misread and the measure of monthly increases shows price growth is being reined in.