London /AFP A stocks rally triggered by Hillary Clinton’s upbeat performance in the first US presidential debate over Republican rival Donald Trump slid away on Tuesday on a dim outlook for an oil deal. In Asia, indices closed with solid gains as a confident Clinton bested her rival in the 90-minute showdown, but in Europe the gains were short-lived ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabian stocks fell more than any other market in the world as the kingdom announced fresh measures to narrow the budget gap. Not a single stock rose on the Tadawul All Share Index, which retreated 3.8 percent on Tuesday, the most since for a single session since January. The hotel and media indexes were the biggest decliners ...

  ROCHESTER / AP All is not well in cranberry country this harvesting season, the 200th anniversary of the world’s first known commercial cultivation. In the birthplace of the industry, many Massachusetts growers whose families have tended bogs for generations are in “dire straits,” facing challenges that include rising production costs, decreasing crop values, changing consumer habits and increasing competition ...