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Saudi Arabia's Oil Company Considers Share Sale

The world's biggest oil company Saudi Aramco is considering a public share offer. Andy Critchlow, from Reuters, analyses the strategy of the Kingdom's ruling family.

The world's biggest oil company Saudi Aramco is considering a public share offer. Andy Critchlow from Reuters, analyses the strategy of the Kingdom's ruling family.

Over the past year, despite the slowdown in China, we haven't heard much about any serious impact on Chinese investment in Africa. What has slowed, though, has been the volume of commodities exported from Africa. What will this mean for international investment in infrastructure across the continent in 2016? We hear from David Johnson,Chief Risk Officer at the Lagos-based Africa Finance Corporation.

It has been another busy week for the ±«Óãtv's Business News Team, not just because of the crisis for shares in China and the sinking oil price, but also a lighter moment considering the legal rights to a photograph taken by a monkey. We review the week with Sujeet Indap, from the FT in New York, plus Josie Cox at the Wall Street Journal in London.

The biggest consumer technology and electronics show in the world has been taking place in Las Vegas this week, with the industry demonstrating devices that they want us to believe will be the future. Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones checks out some of the gizmos on show at the CES in Las Vegas.

(Picture: Saudi Aramco offshore rig. Copyright: Getty Images)

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Fri 8 Jan 2016 18:32GMT

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