Economics Gold ticked higher on Thursday, after suffering its biggest daily decline in nearly four weeks in the previous session, as the looming deadline for averting a US fiscal crisis kept investors on their toes. More from Reuters The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has cut in half oil exports as producing companies grow increasingly worried that Baghdad will not honor the payment terms of an export deal struck in September. More from Iraq Oil Report The United Arab Emirates has "effectively closed the country's remaining forum for free speech" with a decree issued earlier this month that tightened the law on online dissent, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. More from Arabian Business Saudi Arabia and Sudan are seeking to start in 2014 deep-water mining of a Red Sea basin believed rich in gold and copper. More from AME Info Canada wants to return to level
