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Bloomberg Oil limped to its worst weekly loss of the year as tensions lingered over how the trade feud between the world’s top economic super powers will hit demand. Futures in New York rebounded somewhat but still ended the week down 6.6 percent, the biggest decline since late December, after days of escalating rhetoric between China and the US. Chinese ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration widened its dragnet on Chinese companies barred from selling to the US or buying components from American firms in a push to slow China’s technological advances. After crippling Huawei Technologies Co, the administration followed up by threatening to cut off US compone- nts or software to five Chinese video surveillance firms. But the plan might backfire, ...

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco agreed to a buy a stake in Sempra Energy’s Texas LNG export terminal, giving the world’s biggest oil exporter a foo-thold in the fast-growing global gas trade. The proposed deal, which also includes an agreement to buy gas from the plant, would mark Aramco’s first entry into production of oil or gas outside Saudi Arabia. Aramco can ...

Bloomberg Signs of a turnaround at its marquee Jaguar Land Rover unit may not be enough to ease the challenges facing India’s oldest and most-storied business empire. The Tata Group bought the British luxury carmaker in 2008 for $2.3 billion, and it’s lately become a drag on the salt-to-software conglomerate, racking up losses in three quarters through December. Although Jaguar ...

Bloomberg Trade tensions have derailed the global economy, plunging it onto a low-growth track that’s clouded by risks, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) latest outlook. The report sticks to the gloomy tone long held by the Paris-based organisation, which has warned that trade disruptions could ricochet throughout the world economy. Now that scenario has come ...

Bloomberg Oil rose after Saudi Arabia and other Opec+ members signalled their intention to keep supplies constrained, while US President Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions with Iran. Futures in New York jumped as much as 1.7%, before paring some of those gains. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih urged members of Opec+ gathered in Jeddah to “stay the course” on output ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. is planning to cut the price of its solar panels, and the chief of rival Sunrun Inc. isn’t worried. In fact, Sunrun Chief Executive Officer Lynn Jurich said she thinks it’s great that Tesla gets so much attention. “More attention really raises the boat for everybody,” she said on a call with analysts. “Having Tesla out there ...

Bloomberg Efforts by Opec and its allies to balance the global supply and demand of oil aren’t complete because crude inventories continue to rise, according to United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Suhail Mohammed Al Mazrouei. “The job is not complete,” Al Mazrouei told reporters in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. “We are still seeing some inventory buildup and we ...

SHARJAH / WAM Real estate transactions valued AED5.2 billion in the Emirate of Sharjah in the first quarter of this year, according to Sharjah Real Estate Registration Directorate (SRERD). The latest figures show that the emirate recorded 13,195 transactions, including 1,131 sales in 122 areas that covered 10 million square feet. Investors from 31 nationalities worldwide were involved in these ...

Bloomberg From Colombia to the North Sea, the Middle East to Texas, the global market for crude cargoes is becoming tighter as supplies grow more constrained and risks to production spiral. Prices for actual barrels from the North Sea, Asia, and the Americas are now trading at the highest in half a decade. Key price spreads that show how urgently ...