Reuters French oil and gas major Total on Tuesday signed a $5 billion dealwith Saudi Aramco to build a giant petrochemical complex at their 440,000 barrels-per-day Jubail Satorp refinery. Saudi Aramco holds a 62.5 percent stake in the refinery, while Total holds the other 37.5 percent. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on the sidelines of a visit by …

Bloomberg Stocks surged on Tuesday following conciliatory remarks from Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at releasing some pressure from a trade dispute between the world’s biggest economies. Treasuries fell with the dollar. All major US equity indexes were up more than 1.4 percent after Xi said Cold War and zero-sum mentalities were “out of place,” and backed free trade and …

Bloomberg The krona is the worst-performing major currency this year. That may be about to change. Sweden’s krona should recover from this month’s eight-year low of 10.35 per euro as factors that have weighed, such as weaker-than-forecast inflation, are either already priced in or will improve, according to SEB AB. The bank sees it appreciating to 9.80 per euro by …