Barclays opens tech lab as part of Aberdeen’s diversification drive
Aberdeen’s entrepreneurial spirit and the drive to diversify the north-east economy has encouraged Barclays to open its second Scottish Eagle Lab.
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Barclays AGM hit by climate protests
Barclays' annual general meeting has been hit by climate protesters angry at the lender's financing of fossil fuel projects.
JBS Group bags £2m Barclays funding package
North-east engineering firm JBS Group has secured a £2 million funding package from banking giant Barclays to support growth plans.
Greenpeace scale Barclays HQ in oil drip protest
Greenpeace activists have scaled Barclays Bank HQ in London's Canary Wharf in a protest over the funding of tar sands pipelines.
Barclays sells last part of oil business
Barclays sold the last part of its oil book to an unidentified buyer, triggering a surge in trading of exotic options written in the era of higher crude prices, according to people familiar with the matter.
Aberdeen protest against North American pipeline funding banks
A climate change group will stage a protest in Aberdeen over banks’ support for pipeline projects in North America.
Oil prices on ‘mild up’ as omens good, says top banker
Oil prices are most likely headed on a “mild up” after the turmoil of their slump from 2014-2016, a top banker said on a visit to Aberdeen.
Beware junk energy bonds amid oil drop, Barclays warns
High-yield energy bonds, which have risen even as oil slid more than 20 percent in the past two months, may be hit if the commodity dips below the $40 it’s trading at now, according to Barclays Plc strategist Brad Rogoff.
Oil price jumps as supply shortens and surplus dries up
Oil prices jumped more than 2% on Monday to their highest since November 2015 as Goldman Sachs said the market had ended almost two years of oversupply and was in deficit.
Barclays warns commodities may slump on ‘rush for the exits’
Commodities including oil and copper are at risk of steep declines as recent advances aren’t fully grounded in improved fundamentals, according to Barclays Plc, which warned that prices may tumble as investors rush for the exits.
Oil giants to miss third-quarter profit estimates, says Barclays
The biggest publicly traded oil producers based in the Western Hemisphere will fall short of Wall Street profit estimates when third-quarter results are released in coming weeks because energy prices have continued to slump, according to Barclays.