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Bloomberg Larry Kudlow pushed back on Sunday on the notion that the US economy is headed towards a recession, and said recent phone calls between US and Chinese trade negotiators had produced more “positive news.” Kudlow, the White House National Economic Council director, and Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, made multiple appearances on Sunday talk shows to discuss …

Bloomberg Freyr AS, a startup planning to build one of Europe’s first battery gigafactories in Norway, has a bigger vision for the region: a “Nordic Battery Belt.” The Norwegian company is still gathering approvals, technology licenses and funding for its initial, 40 billion-krone ($4.5 billion) project in northern Norway. But it already sees the scope for as many as four …

KHARTOUM / WAM The UAE on Saturday expressed its support for Sudan in its quest to create a polit-ical system capable of achieving the development of the state and driving the country towards a prosperous future, affirmed Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State. In a statement following his participation in the ceremony held in Khartoum to …

Bloomberg Drones attacked oil and gas facilities at the Shaybah field in southeast Saudi Arabia but failed to disrupt production, the kingdom’s Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih said. Aramco extinguished a small fire at a natural gas liquids plant at Shaybah on Saturday morning, it said in a statement. There were no casualties and oil operations were not interrupted by the …

Bloomberg For Brits looking to escape the UK in an increasingly wet August, the pound might offer some relief with a recovery against the euro. Sterling ended a record run of losses against the common currency this week and analysts are cautiously optimistic on its near-term prospects. Growing resistance among opposition lawmakers to a no-deal Brexit has led traders to …

RED SEA COAST / WAM The UAE is continuing to normalise humanitarian conditions and improve the living conditions of Yemenis in all liberated governorates, with ERC distributing clothes and food for Eid to needy families living in the Red Sea Coast. ERC representatives said Eid clothes distribution project covers 700 families in Khawkhawh, Hais and At Tuhayta districts, and included …

Bloomberg Bank of Sharjah PJSC plans to issue dollar-denominated bonds later this year to help the United Arab Emirates lender repay existing debt, people with knowledge of the plan said. The company wants to raise about $500 million in a sale likely to take place in September or October, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because …

Bloomberg Oil tumbled the most in a week as global financial markets swooned and the swelling US crude stockpiles reinforced the fears about an economic slowdown. Futures slipped more than 5 percent in New York, joining a slide in equities. American crude inventories registered a surprise increase for the second straight week, US data showed on Wednesday, although gasoline demand …

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese agricultural products are likely to hurt the Asian nation a lot less than the retaliatory duties Beijing already imposes on the US. The White House, while delaying tariffs on big-ticket consumer products until Dece- mber, decided to push ahead with 10 percent tariffs on Chinese agricultural products as well as antiques, …

Bloomberg Recession fears are spreading among investors at a time when valuations across major assets are looking dangero-usly stretched following years of monetary stimulus, the latest Bank of America Corp survey shows. About a third of asset managers polled believe a global recession is likely in the next 12 months, the highest probability since 2011 — when Europe was engulfed …