Bloomberg OPEC’s first deal to cut output in eight years has spurred a running of the oil bulls. Prices surged, breaching $50 a barrel, since the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to the cut on Sept. 28 in Algiers. The group, which pumped at a record in September, will decide on quotas for its members at an official ...

  DUBAI/ Reuters Kuwait has delayed a sovereign bond issue of up to $10 billion until next year after deciding it is in no rush to raise funds overseas, bankers familiar with Kuwaiti debt policy said. Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh said in July the government planned to sell as much as $10 billion of U.S. dollar-denominated conventional and Islamic bonds ...

  Doha / Reuters Qatari banks Masraf Al Rayan and Doha Bank plan to launch the Gulf state’s first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by the end of 2016, a move that should boost capital flows into the local stock market, a bourse official said. The launch of ETFs – portfolios of stocks that track an index – could boost a market ...