London - World oil prices slid on Monday as investors locked in profits from last week's gains that were made on the back of positive US consumer sentiment data, analysts said. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in July dropped 51 cents to $104.13 a barrel in London midday deals. New York's main ...

BEIJING - Profits earned by China’s industrial companies rose 17.3 percent in December from a year earlier to 895.2 billion yuan ($143.91 billion), official data showed on Sunday, as a fourth-quarter recovery helped offset poorer corporate results in the third.The data from the National ...