Bloomberg Positive earnings set the tone for equity markets while the dollar traded at a seven-week high as speculation grew the U.S. will raise interest rates this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average headed for a ninth straight gain, as Microsoft Corp. jumped after profit topped estimates. Technology companies and carmakers led the Stoxx Europe 600 Index higher as …

  Bloomberg In the race to supply wheat to the world’s biggest buyer, Russia is running away with the prize. Russia has supplanted the U.S. as the top exporter of the grain and won the lion’s share of the wheat purchased in the first two tenders this season by Egypt, which buys huge amounts of wheat to provide citizens with …

  DUBAI / Reuters Stock markets in Qatar and Saudi Arabia were pulled lower on Wednesday by two blue-chip companies whose weak second-quarter earnings missed forecasts, while Egypt was hurt by a fresh slide of its currency in the black market. Commercial Bank of Qatar slumped 6.6 percent after it posted a 63 percent drop in second quarter net attributable …