Bloomberg Saudi Aramco’s earnings soared as oil prices and production climbed, allowing the world’s biggest crude producer to cover its quarterly dividend of $18.75 billion with free cash flow. Third-quarter profit rises to 114.1 billion riyals ($30.4 billion) from 44.2 billion riyals year ago, beating a company-compiled estimate of $29.1 billion. Free cash flow was $28.7 billion. Aramco has benefited …

Bloomberg The US and the European Union (EU) clinched a tariff-busting trade accord over the weekend that they’ll try to leverage into a broader global arrangement that would penalise countries that don’t meet low-carbon targets for steel and aluminum exports. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed the agreement on Sunday in Rome on the …

Bloomberg Airbus SE boosted its financial targets for the second time this year while confirming a production ramp-up that would cement the European planemaker’s advantage over Boeing Co. The shares rose as much as 3.2% after Airbus said adjusted operating profit will reach $5.2 billion in 2021. The company reversed some of the charges it took for Covid-19 disruptions as …