LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany: BASF, the world’s biggest chemicals company, said Friday that slowing growth in China and falling oil prices will remain its biggest challenges this year after they weighed on business in 2015.

“The turbulent start to the year on the raw material and stock markets shows just how many uncertainties there are in an outlook for 2016,” BASF’s chief executive Kurt Bock told the group’s annual earnings news conference.

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