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Bloomberg Oil investors are already worrying over the potential fallout when OPEC’s deal to cut output expires, marring emerging signs that the accord to shrink a glut is finally succeeding. Uncertainty about how supplies curbed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies will be returned to the market in 2018 is clouding the outlook for crude, according ...

Bloomberg Egypt tourism receipts almost tripled and worker remittances rose in the last three months of its fiscal year, marking another step in the country’s economic recovery from a crippling dollar shortage. Tourism revenue rose to $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter that ended June 30, from $510 million in the same period a year ago, according to initial central ...

SINGAPORE / Reuters Asia would be the biggest beneficiary of any potential sanctions by the United States on Venezuela’s oil sector, said traders and analysts, as exports from the South American OPEC member could be redirected to the region, filling a vacuum left by producer supply cuts. Washington is considering sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry in response to the ruling ...

Bloomberg Major oil companies are joining Silicon Valley in backing energy-technology start-ups, a signal that those with the deepest pockets in the industry are casting around for a new strategy. From Royal Dutch Shell Plc to Total SA and Exxon Mobil Corp., the biggest investor-owned oil companies are dribbling money into ventures probing the edge of energy technologies. The investments ...

Bloomberg The Philippines is considering potential ways to jointly develop oil and gas resources with China in a disputed part of the South China Sea, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano. Any joint ventures would conform to Philippine law and wouldn’t lead to the loss of Philippine territory, Cayetano told a House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday in ...

Bloomberg The number of new taxpayers in India more than doubled in the past five months and about $47 billion came back to the banks after the government’s cash ban brought more people into the fold of the formal economy, PM Narendra Modi said. “Black money which was hidden was forced to come to the mainstream,” Modi said in his ...

Bloomberg China had unexpected buoyancy in its economy to thank for an easing off in corporate defaults in the first half. But as growth shows signs of pulling back, the question is: will it last? Despite alarm over the risks posed by China’s daunting debt pile ticking up in the first six months, the country actually saw a drop in ...

Bloomberg Airbnb Inc. is ramping up its investment in China, quadrupling its engineering team over the next 12 months to focus on affluent millennials who’re increasingly exploring the world’s second largest economy. Airbnb will grow its technical cohort to more than 100 in Beijing—the only office outside the US where the home-sharing giant employs an engineering division, according to co-founder ...

Dubai / WAM Emaar Properties PJSC recorded a 15 percent growth in net profit to reach AED2.837 billion ($772 million) during the first six months of 2017 (H1), compared to AED2.475 billion ($674 million) during the same period last year. The H1 2017 revenue reached AED7.866 billion ($2.142 billion) an increase of 8 percent over H1 2016 revenue of AED7.257 ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirate of Abu Dhabi’s trade in iron and steel, aluminum, and copper hit AED6.8 billion during the first third of 2017, a growth of 15.6 percent over the corresponding period last year, according to the Statistics Centre- Abu Dhabi. The three minerals account for 11.6 percent of the total non-oil trade across the emirate’s points ...