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Bloomberg Oil held near a five-month high as Hurricane Laura bore down on key refining facilities on the US Gulf Coast, with forecasts saying it will strengthen rapidly into a “potentially catastrophic” Category 4 storm. Futures in New York were steady after jumping 1.7%. The storm is expected to make landfall on Thursday along the Texas-Louisiana coast, according to the …

Bloomberg UK judges can set global royalty rates for the use of telecommunications technology, Britain’s highest court said in a pair of cases over how much Huawei Technologies owes a US patent owner. The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a decision that Huawei would either have to pay Unwired Planet International Ltd. a global rate set by judges or …

ABU DHABI / WAM PCI Pharma Services (PCI), a leading pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical global supply chain solutions provider, and portfolio company of Partners Group, announced on Monday the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of majority stake in the company by Kohlberg & Company, LLC (Kohlberg). Kohlberg is a leading private equity firm headquartered in Mount Kisco, New …

Bloomberg Oil edged higher as production was disrupted by two storms approaching the US Gulf Coast. Futures rose 0.8% in New York. Almost 58% of crude output, or more than 1 million barrels a day, in the Gulf of Mexico was closed as of midday. The storms Marco and Laura — the latter of which is forecast to become a …

Bloomberg TikTok plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday to challenge its executive order banning transactions with the video app in the US, the company said. TikTok said it “strongly disagreed” with the concerns raised by President Donald Trump as he ordered on August 6 to ban the app from the US within 45 days. He …

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he called off last weekend’s trade talks with China, raising questions about the future of a deal that is now the most stable point in an increasingly tense relationship. “I cancelled talks with China,” Trump said in Yuma, Arizona. “I don’t want to talk to China right now.” The phase-one trade deal, which came into …

Bloomberg Oil jumped to a five-month high alongside a surge in US equities as optimism that an economic recovery may be on the horizon lifted hopes for improving fuel demand to follow. Equities in the US, Europe and Asia strengthened, with the S&P 500 Index approaching the highest in months, bolstered by fresh stimulus out of China’s central bank. A …

Bloomberg Oil fell below $42 a barrel in New York at the start of a week that will see Opec+ gather to assess its supply deal as countries struggle to contain the virus that’s hurt economies and fuel demand globally. The Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee — the panel which reviews the deal between the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) …

Bloomberg The first commercial deal under an Africa-wide free trade zone will take place on January 1 next year as outstanding talks are set to move online, the African Union said. While African Continental Free Trade Area entered into force legally last year, transactions that were due to start on July 1 were delayed as the virus set back negotiations …

Bloomberg Oil squeezed out a gain for the second straight week but uncertainty around the US-China trade deal and fears of a resurgent pandemic limited the price rally. Crude futures in New York fell 0.5%, but rise 1.9% for the week. The US and China postponed talks planned for over the weekend that had been aimed at reviewing progress at …