London / AFP Stock markets swung mostly lower on Monday, with attention fixed on central bank policy before an ECB meeting this week and speculation on the outlook for US borrowing costs. Asian markets diverged following healthy gains for world equities at the end of last week, as investors bet that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates before ...

  Dubai / Reuters Potential investors in the Saudi Arabian government’s first international bond issue are preoccupied by a key question: how will the Saudis resolve their dilemma between size and pricing? Any issuer must choose between raising as much money as it can and selling debt as cheaply as possible. But as Saudi Arabia holds investor roadshows in the ...

  Bloomberg Iran, OPEC’s third-biggest member, plans to boost its oil output to 4 million barrels a day this year, potentially complicating the producer group’s plan to cut supply in an effort to prop up prices. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said he hopes the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will agree next month at a meeting in Vienna to ...