Bloomberg After a dreadful March quarter for Asian corporations, investors are bracing for another wave of reporting cards that will reflect the first full three-month period during the worst virus outbreak in living memory. More than 280 companies on the MSCI Asia Pacific Index are expected to report results next week, and the number will continue to climb in August. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Saturday received a telephone call from Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan. During the conversation, the two leaders discussed ways of strengthening bilateral ties and cooperation to serve the mutual interests of the two ...

Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd., controlled by Asia’s richest man, toppled ExxonMobil Corp. to become the world’s largest energy company after Saudi Aramco, as investors piled into the conglomerate lured by the Indian firm’s digital and retail forays. Reliance, which manages the biggest refinery complex, gained 4.3% in Mumbai adding $8 billion to take its market value to $189 billion, while ...

Bloomberg In March and April, as oil prices plunged to their lowest in a generation, Norwegian energy giant Equinor ASA was busy doing the opposite of what oil companies usually do: pumping as much crude as possible underground into giant caverns on the nation’s North Sea coast. Equinor also filled oil tankers with crude, turning them into floating storage facilities, ...

Bloomberg Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan said he’s in talks with the US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette about finding a path to move ahead with oil pipeline projects, the Globe & Mail reported. “He’s somebody who’s been in the energy business and with the energy department for quite some time. He does have that understanding so we do ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co 737 planes in storage because of the coronavirus pandemic are at risk of losing power in both engines when they fly again and must be inspected, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. The emergency order applies to about 2,000 older Next Generation and Classic versions of Boeing’s workhorse single-aisle jet in the US, not the grounded ...

Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA is looking at raising as much as 2.75 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in a share sale to help strengthen its balance sheet and ride out the coronavirus crisis. The London-based group, which also owns Spain’s Iberia and Aer Lingus of Ireland, said that it may opt for a rights issue, though no final decision ...

Bloomberg First released in 1959, the iconic Barbie doll has seen Mattel Inc through the civil rights movement, the Cold War and the rise of the internet. And now it’s helping the company weather a global pandemic. While Mattel’s overall sales fell 15% in the second quarter from a year earlier — the result of closed retail stores, supply-chain troubles ...

Bloomberg Creditors of South African Airways (SAA) gave the government more time to find the money to fund a rescue of the bankrupt state-owned airline. At a meeting convened by the airline’s administrators, creditors voted to extend the deadline to July 27 from an initial deadline of July 22. If the money is not guaranteed by then, another creditors meeting ...

Bloomberg Neiman Marcus Group Inc, the luxury retailer that’s making its way through bankruptcy proceedings, said it will permanently close its store in New York City’s Hudson Yards along with three other US locations. Its planned exit from Hudson Yards comes just over a year after the mall at the mega-project opened to much fanfare in March 2019. The three-story ...