Bloomberg The US dollar’s bearish turn has opened the floodgates into emerging markets, helping currencies to get on board a rally so far driven by equities and bonds. The MSCI gauge for emerging-market exchange rates had the best weekly advance in more than four years and is flashing indicators of further gains. That’s helped to add at least $1 trillion ...

Bloomberg Dubai shares climbed the most in the Gulf on after Opec+ agreed to a one-month extension of its record output cuts, underpinning recovery in oil prices. The DFM General Index rose as much as 3.0%, trimming losses this year to 24%. Gauges in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Oman gained between 0.2% and 1.6%. Major oil producers decided ...

Bloomberg Canadian stocks posted their best week in about two months, turbocharged by an unexpected rebound in the US and domestic labour market from the depths of the coronavirus shutdowns. The S&P/TSX Composite Index jumped 2.1% to close out the week 4.4% higher, its biggest gain since the week of April 10 as Canada added jobs 290,000 jobs in May, ...

CAIRO / WAM In response to a request from the Egyptian authorities, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Uma Ramakrishnan held virtual meetings with the Egyptian authorities to discuss IMF financial support for the authorities’ policy plans to ensure macroeconomic stability and a strong economic recovery. At the end of the virtual discussions, Ramakrishnan issued the following statement. ...

RIYADH / WAM The Yemeni government has called on the World Bank to increase its support to the country amid the “huge challenges” its facing as a result of the war fueled by Iranian-backed Houthis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and climate change, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Yemeni PM Maeen Abdulmalik urged the World Bank to reconsider restructuring the support being ...

Bloomberg The collapse in international oil prices, having dealt a devastating blow to Nigeria’s finances, now threatens the West African nation’s shaky federal political system. Earnings from crude sales will plunge 80% to $2.84 billion this year, the nation’s budget office said last month. A protracted loss of income could leave most of Nigeria’s 36 states unable to function. It ...

Bloomberg Total SA’s liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique raised $15 billion of debt — about the same size as the African country’s economy — exceeding a funding target even as the virus pandemic threatens the global financial system. Energy companies have struggled over the past few months as prices of everything from oil to natural gas slumped with the ...

Bloomberg Massachusetts’s top law-enforcement officer is asking regulators to investigate the future of natural-gas utilities in the state as it fights climate change. Attorney General Maura Healey called on the Department of Public Utilities to examine what steps need to be taken as the state weans itself off fossil fuels to help meet its goal to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions ...

Bloomberg Tasmania wants to turn itself into a battery. The island state off the Australian mainland’s southern tip is pursuing what its leaders say is the world’s most ambitious renewable energy target, boosting hydro and wind generation to twice its own needs by 2040 and exporting the rest via a planned undersea cable. The strategy could play a key role ...

Bloomberg The Trump Administration, in the latest move ratcheting up tensions in US-China trade, said that the nation had continued to violate airlines’ rights by restricting flights and ordered new limits on its carriers. Responding to a move by China to limit US passenger airlines to one flight per week each, the US Department of Transportation said it would only ...