To change the current paradigm, the industry will need to dig deep and tap its proud history of bold structural moves, innovation, and safe and profitable operations in the toughest conditions. The winners will be those that use this crisis to boldly reposition their portfolios and transform their operating models. Companies that don’t will restructure or inevitably atrophy.

The $300 billion Public Investment Fund bought stakes in global corporate leaders such as Boeing, Facebook, Disney, Marriott and Starbucks. It also invested in two big US banks, Citigroup and Bank of America, and took holdings in oil giants BP, Total and Royal Dutch Shell.

"It is a fact that nuclear power plants require large upfront investments, compared to other sources of energy,"

the Shanghai Composite index was up 0.61% at 2,885.83 points

The benchmark Nikkei average rose 0.7% to 20,177.79

U.S. gold futures gained 0.8% to $1,770.50.

Japan's economy contracted 0.9% in January-March, or at an annualized pace of 3.4%,

“We have to see that Chinese companies, partly with the support of state funds, are increasingly trying to buy up European companies that are cheap to acquire or that got into economic difficulties due to the coronavirus crisis,”

U.S. total industrial production fell 11.2 percent in April for its largest monthly drop in the 101-year history of the index

The new China's project for receiving imported liquefied natural gas (LNG)

In 1Q 2020 negative Net income attributable to Rosneft shareholders amounted to RUB 156 bln (USD 2 bln) which was mainly a result of the forex exchange loss (RUB 177 bln) due to RUB depreciation and revaluation of foreign currency financial liabilities as well as a reduction of the operating income (-64.8% QoQ).

Reduced economic activity resulting from shelter-in-place restrictions due to COVID-19 drove significant near-term disruptions to energy markets in the month of April with U.S. petroleum demand falling nearly 27 percent to 14.2 million barrels per day (mb/d),

Spot gold gained 0.4% to $1,735.67 per ounce, U.S. gold futures rose 0.3% to $1,746.20.

the Shanghai Composite index was down 0.1% at 2,868.46

The pan-European STOXX 600 rose 1.4%