Daily Oklahoman: Business

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates, home to financial hubs Abu Dhabi and Dubai, is loosening its residency laws and will grant long-term visas for up to 10 years to investors and highly-skilled professionals.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deadpool and his foul-mouthed crew of misfits and malcontents have taken down the Avengers.

Fox's "Deadpool 2" brought in $125 million according to studio estimates Sunday and ended the three-week reign of Disney's "Avengers: Infinity War" at the top of the North American box office.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Latest on Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela (all times local):

1:01 p.m.

President Nicolas Maduro's two main challengers are calling on electoral authorities to step in to stop ruling party activists from pressuring poor voters into casting ballots for the government.

DETROIT (AP) — A nearly 80-year-old statue depicting a European settler with a weapon in his hand towering over a Native American that some say celebrates white supremacy has been dismantled by crews in southwestern Michigan's Kalamazoo.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says efforts to renegotiate a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico could spill into next year.

The Trump administration missed an informal deadline last Thursday that had been set by House Speaker Paul Ryan to get a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement to Congress in time for lawmakers to vote on it in a midterm election year.

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By Paula Burkes Business Writer pburkes@oklahoman.comIronically, a bad investment experience years ago is what led Brian Puckett into his now 25-year career in financial planning.
Puckett, then an attorney in his late 20s, lost $16,000 — the only money he had outside his company 401(k) — when he invested it with a large brokerage house.

By Adam Wilmoth Energy Editor awilmoth@oklahoman.comA heightened focus on technology and efficiency gains over the past four years has allowed the oil and natural gas industry to return to profitability and recover from the deepest industry downturn in a generation.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

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On the front of this very section of the newspaper, our energy editor, Adam Wilmoth, writes energy companies' need to deal with a new financial world.Read more on NewsOK.com

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is expected to win a second six-year term in Sunday's election, despite a deepening crisis that's made food scarce and inflation soar as oil production in the once wealthy nation plummets.