Bloomberg European stocks rise with US equity-index futures as investors bet slower hiring in the world’s largest economy may delay a tapering of Federal Reserve stimulus. Aluminum hit a decade high amid political unrest in Guinea. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index inched closer to its record high, led by technology shares. Contracts on the S&P 500 Index rises 0.2% even …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia cut oil prices for sales to Asia next month by more than twice the expected amount. State producer Saudi Aramco is rolling back pricing on all of its grades to its biggest market in Asia. Three successive months of increases in the company’s official selling prices had left refiners smarting as the coronavirus pandemic plays havoc with …

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc isn’t about to throw away its pandemic-era ways of working. The bank, which is in the midst of a historic pivot and cost cutting program, predicts it will be operating in a profoundly different way after the virus outbreak ebbs, with as many as 70% of its staff backing a hybrid working model and with its …