By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) - Top oil executives and ministers descend on Houston this week for one of the world's biggest energy conferences emboldened by blockbuster mergers, stable oil prices and less pressure for a large scale move to clean fuels. Global oil prices have remained in a range between $75 and $85 per barrel, a level fueling profits...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has said that Western investors should not be pressured to sell their Russian assets, a practice he said was dishonest, short-sighted and harmful to the Russian and global economies. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, many Western companies have fled Russia and some of their holdings have been put under state management, with...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss banking giant UBS will look for merger and acquisitions opportunities in the United States in the next few years, its chairman told the NZZ newspaper on Sunday. UBS, which took over former rival Credit Suisse last June, wants to expand its U.S. wealth-management business through potential M&A in the next three or four years, Colm Kelleher...

MONTREAL, March 17 (Reuters) - Canadian Airbus A220 production workers on Sunday voted to reject a contract and are considering a strike mandate, a union official said, raising labor tensions as the European planemaker tries to reduce the money-losing jet's costs. More than 99% of the union members who voted rejected the contract, the union official said. ...