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Pakistan arrests Hafiz Saeed as Khan set to meet Trump

Bloomberg Pakistan arrested Hafiz Saeed, the suspected planner of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, on terrorism related charges days before Prime Minister Imran Khan meets US President Donald Trump. Saeed, who heads the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, was shifted to jail by the counter-terrorism police in Lahore, group’s spokesman Nadeem Awan said on phone. Saeed, who has been arrested and released many ...

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Trump’s EU tariff deal comes down to a coin flip

Donald Trump has called the European Union a “foe” and has threatened to “tariff the hell” out of the 28-country bloc. So where should we put the chances of the US president agreeing a trade deal with Brussels before he has to face reelection next year? In a surprising burst of cheerful optimism, Germany’s economy minister Peter Altmaier places them ...

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Australian coal leaves investors cold

When you’re in the business of buying and selling, timing is everything. That’s the costly lesson facing BHP Group, which is looking at options to divest its thermal coal assets according to a report by Thomas Biesheuvel of Bloomberg News that cited people familiar with the matter. Arch-rival Rio Tinto Group raised $2.7 billion selling mines in the Hunter Valley ...

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