Bloomberg Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany’s veteran finance minister, urged the US to limit Russian and Chinese influence or risk bringing about “the end of our liberal world order.” The comments by Schaeuble, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet since she took office in 2005, are one of the strongest expressions of concern among European policy makers that President Donald Trump’s …

DUBAI­­­­ / Reuters Global index compiler MSCI said it would consider upgrading Saudi Arabia to emerging market status, a move that would attract tens of billions of dollars of fresh foreign money as the country seeks to diversify its economy beyond oil. MSCI will announce its decision in June 2018, and any move to upgrade would take effect in two …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will need higher crude prices to push ahead with his plans to reform the kingdom’s economy, making an about-face in oil policy unlikely in the short term. Yet, oil markets will be braced for an even more assertive Saudi Arabia in foreign policy. MbS, as the 31-year-old prince is known, has …