BP reviewed the activities of its in-house foreign exchange traders, the British oil and gas group said on Tuesday, after the Financial Times reported that BP was investigating whether its traders were involved in rigging the currency market.
The breakneck growth of U.S. public pension assets paused in the third quarter of the year, due to falling earnings, U.S. Census data released on Wednesday showed.
A consortium led by Spanish-builder Sacyr said on Thursday it has won a $233 million (149.57 million pounds) settlement in a dispute over cost overruns in an expansion of the Panama Canal, half what the group had been seeking in the lawsuit.
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma asked the country to begin a week of fasting and prayers on Thursday to end the Ebola virus that has killed more than 2,700 of his countrymen.
