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Bloomberg Oil posted the longest run of weekly gains since April as prices followed equities higher and a government report showed US crude inventories falling to the lowest in two months. Futures in New York were little changed, clinging to a three-month high. The Energy Information Administration reported that oil inventories fell 5.47 million barrels while supplies at the key …

Bloomberg Iraq, Opec’s second-biggest producer, halted output from a southern oil field as protesters walked close to installations. Other southern fields will make up the amount from the shutdown, which won’t affect the country’s output. The halt is temporary until the Nasiriya field, which produces 80,000 to 85,000 barrels a day, is clear of protesters. The closure was a precautionary …

Bloomberg Oil settled above $61 a barrel amid light volume as US President Donald Trump said a preliminary trade deal with China is “done” and ahead of government data expected to show another crude stockpile decline. Futures rose 1% in New York to close at a three-day high. Trump suggested that the US and China will sign a trade agreement …

Bloomberg China’s imports of US soybeans rose to the highest in 20 months in November after more American cargoes cleared customs ahead of the signing of a partial trade deal in January. China’s inbound shipments from the US surged to 2.6 million tons, the highest since March 2018, and up from about 1.1 million tons in October. China imported almost …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia and Kuwait agreed to resume oil production in a shared border region more than four years after halting output. Their agreement allows for “the resumption of oil production from the joint fields,” the Saudi energy ministry said on Twitter. The oil fields in the so-called neutral zone can produce as much as 500,000 barrels a day — …

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), awarded contracts valued at AED1.130 billion to various companies in 2019, as part of the development of district cooling infrastructure in Dubai. The contracts included engineering consultancy; plant and other constructions, design and operation of cooling plants; expansion of district cooling pipe network; development of new networks to serve the latest …

Bloomberg India’s government should avoid a fiscal stimulus to spur the economy, and focus instead on cutting public debt so that financial resources can be freed up for investment, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. While the national government has a budget deficit target of 3.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the year through March, a better reflection of …

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways has announced that it will operate its seasonal routes from Abu Dhabi to Alexandria, Egypt, and Salalah, Oman, between June 25 to September 15, 2020. Due to the success of the routes in 2019, the period of operation has been extended by three weeks and a new fifth weekly service introduced on both routes …

Abu Dhabi / WAM Choosing UAE-grown produce can help support sustainability and contribute towards solving food and water security, Madar Farms’ Head of Operations, Kyle Wagner, said during an event in Abu Dhabi. During a panel discussion at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), with Mariam Hareb Almheiri, Minister of State for Food Security, he urged the public to take …

DUBAI / WAM DP World has been awarded a 30-year build-operate-transfer (BOT), concession by the Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), for the management and development of the Jeddah South Container Terminal at the multi-purpose Jeddah Islamic Port. Under the agreement, DP World will invest up to $500 million to improve and modernise the Jeddah Islamic Port, including major infrastructure development to …