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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oklahoma is seeing a sharp increase in foreign investment interest, especially in its renewable energy sector, and is on the cusp of signing large new deals with firms in Switzerland and Asia, Governor Kevin Stitt told Reuters on Wednesday. Stitt said Oklahoma, which just signed a trade agreement with Britain, said foreign governments were increasingly looking to bypass what he called “dysfunction” in the […]

(Corrects governor’s name in first paragraph) By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Oklahoma is seeing a sharp increase in foreign investment interest, especially in its renewable energy sector, and is on the cusp of signing large new deals with firms in Switzerland and Asia, Governor Kevin Stitt told Reuters on Wednesday. Stitt said Oklahoma, which just signed a trade agreement with Britain, said foreign governments were increasingly looking to bypass what […]

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oklahoma is seeing a sharp increase in foreign investment interest, especially in its renewable energy sector, and is on the cusp of signing large new deals with firms in Switzerland and Asia, Governor Kevin Still told Reuters on Wednesday. Stitt said Oklahoma, which just signed a trade agreement with Britain, said foreign governments were increasingly looking to bypass what he called “dysfunction” in the […]

By Anirban Sen and Noel Randewich (Reuters) -PacWest Bancorp is exploring strategic options including a sale or capital raising, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, sending the shares of the bank and several other U.S. regional lenders tumbling in after-market trading. The fall in shares, including a nearly 60% plunge at PacWest, underscores how investors remain unconvinced about the health of regional banks despite regulators’ efforts to […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will allow Chinese airlines to increase U.S. passenger services to 12 weekly round-trips, the Transportation Department (USDOT) said on Wednesday, equal to the number of flights Beijing has permitted for American carriers. It is a boost from the eight weekly round-trip flights currently allowed by Chinese carriers and matches what Beijing has permitted for U.S. carriers, but a small fraction of the more than […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will allow Chinese airlines to increase U.S. passenger services to 12 weekly round-trips, the Transportation Department (USDOT) said on Wednesday, equal to the number of flights Beijing has permitted for American carriers. It is a boost from the eight weekly round-trip flights currently allowed by Chinese carriers and matches what Beijing has permitted for U.S. carriers, but a small fraction of the more than […]

By Mohamed Nureldin and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -The United Nations pressed Sudan’s warring factions on Wednesday to guarantee safe passage of humanitarian aid after six trucks were looted and air strikes in the capital undermined a supposed truce. U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said he hoped to have face-to-face meetings with Sudan’s warring parties within two to three days to secure guarantees from them for aid convoys to deliver […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will allow Chinese airlines to increase U.S. passenger services to 12 weekly round-trips, the Transportation Department (USDOT) said on Wednesday, equal to the number of flights Beijing has permitted for American carriers. It is a boost from the eight weekly round-trip flights currently allowed by Chinese carriers and matches what Beijing has permitted for U.S. carriers, but a small fraction of the more than […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will allow Chinese airlines to increase U.S. passenger services to 12 weekly round-trips, the Transportation Department (USDOT) said on Wednesday, equal to the number of flights Beijing has permitted for American carriers. It is a boost from the eight weekly round-trip flights currently allowed by Chinese carriers and matches what Beijing has permitted for U.S. carriers, but a small fraction of the more than […]