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  Bloomberg Embattled German auto giant Volkswagen said on Wednesday it booked a charge of 2.2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in the first six months in relation to engine-rigging scandal, but its operating performance before that charge was better than expected. “The operating result for the Volkswagen group before special items is significantly higher than market expectations for the first ...

  Bloomberg Germany, one of Europe’s cheapest stock markets, is starting to see a resurgence in investor interest. Months of withdrawals from exchange-traded funds tracking German stocks are beginning to reverse amid a stabilizing euro and improving prospects for the country’s exporters. The biggest ETF following the shares just had three consecutive weeks of inflows for the first time since ...

  Bloomberg Morgan Stanley’s Matthew Hornbach called this year’s Treasury market rally. Now he’s revising his forecasts and is more bullish than just about anyone else. Ten-year U.S. yields will fall more than 50 basis points, or 0.5 percentage point, to 1 percent in the first quarter of 2017, according to Hornbach, the firm’s head of global interest-rate strategy in ...

  Bloomberg Oil held near $45 a barrel as U.S. industry data showed a drop in crude stockpiles, paring a surplus in the world’s largest fuel consumer. Futures were little changed in New York after dropping 1.3 percent Tuesday to a two-month low. Inventories declined by 2.3 million barrels last week, the American Petroleum Institute was said to report. While ...

  Bloomberg Anglo American Plc, the second-best performer on the FTSE 100 Index this year, cut its annual target for copper output after heavy snow at operations in Chile. The shares slumped the most in more than three weeks. Production will be 570,000 to 600,000 metric tons this year, down from a forecast of as much as 630,000 tons, as ...

  Bloomberg Sempra Energy says it’s more interested in making money from energy projects in Latin America than buying back shares. The San Diego, California-based utility owner said it’s scaling back its target for buying shares by $500 million and will instead use the cash to help build a $2 billion natural gas pipeline in Mexico. In fact, its Mexican ...

  Bloomberg When Ilan Goldfajn presides over his first policy meeting as Brazil’s central bank chief, he’ll have a daunting task: reviving an economy mired in its worst recession in a more than a century while restoring the bank’s inflation-fighting bona fides. Traders and analysts — who expect the central bank to keep interest rates unchanged at a 10-year high ...

  Dubai / AFP The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its 2016 growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa after a rebound in oil prices, but maintained its cautious outlook for Saudi Arabia. The region, along with Afghanistan and Pakistan, is set to see economic growth of 3.4 percent this year, better than a previous projection of ...

  DUBAI / WAM MAF Global Securities on Tuesday listed a conventional bond valued at US$ 300 million on Nasdaq Dubai. It was the third conventional bond to be listed on the exchange by MAF Global Securities, part of the Majid Al Futtaim Holding group, following listings in July 2013 and May 2014 of 500 million US Dollars each. Hamed ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Executive Committee at the Executive Council, headed by Saeed Eid Al Ghafli, Chairman of the Executive Office, approved during its meeting an array of development projects in collaboration with the private sector worth a total of AED 470 million, in addition to making a number of decisions and adopting vital projects in the Emirate. In ...