Bloomberg Chinese technology shares rose for a second day after talks between Beijing and Washington to avoid the delisting of companies in New York was said to show signs of progress. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Tech Index climbed as much as 2.1% on Friday before paring gains to close 0.8% higher as it capped its biggest weekly gain in …

  Dubai / Gulf Time HSA Group, Yemen’s largest private company, has announced a $1.2 million donation to support the United Nations’ (UN) efforts to avert a major humanitarian, economic, and ecological disaster in the Red Sea. The donation is the first committed by a private sector organisation. The FSO SAFER oil tanker is one of the world’s largest shipping …

Bloomberg Shell Plc, ExxonMobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Equinor ASA plan to withdraw multibillion-dollar lawsuits against Nigeria’s state energy company after finalizing new terms for deep-water oil production in Africa’s largest crude producer. In letters to two New York federal judges, the oil majors said they had agreed to settle with the Nigerian National Petroleum Co. and will terminate ongoing …