DUBAI / Reuters Profit taking dragged most stock markets in the Middle East lower on Thursday, erasing most of the previous session’s gains as some of the optimism generated by generally positive first quarter results faded. Saudi Arabia’s index retreated 0.3 percent, after rising 0.9 percent on Wednesday when Saudi British Bank reported an earnings beat and banking shares …

  Bloomberg US stocks opened lower as the dollar stabilized from earlier losses as markets digested comments from US President Donald Trump on Wednesday denouncing the greenback’s strength and championing lower interest rates. Banking stocks led a European decline. The S&P 500 Index opened down 0.25 percent at 2,339.09 Thursday, while the Dow Jones Industrial average fell 0.24 percent to …

  Bloomberg The spectacular failure of what was once the world’s biggest renewable-energy company has turned into a smorgasbord of wind and solar farms being gobbled up by infrastructure investors, clean-power developers and even a vegan soccer team. Since filing the largest US bankruptcy of 2016, SunEdison Inc. has hosted the biggest-ever sale of renewables assets. It’s shed at least …