Bloomberg IBM closed its $34 billion purchase of Red Hat, sealing the world’s second-largest technology deal ever and setting up the iconic US technology company on a path to try and compete with top software purveyors in the cloud. The 108-year-old International Business Machines Corp, once synonymous with mainframe computing, has been struggling to adopt cloud-related technologies and is playing …

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest crude exporter, awarded $18 billion in contracts to boost output capacity at two offshore oil fields even as the kingdom and its Opec partners restrict production. Saudi Arabia’s state oil company will add a combined 550,000 barrels a day of crude-production capacity at its Marjan and Berri fields, it said on Tuesday in a …

Bloomberg US stocks pared some early losses as markets await an onslaught of central bank news this week. The dollar strengthened to its highest level since mid-June and Treasuries slipped. The S&P 500 Index declined, led lower by materials and utilities stocks, as investors absorb recent profit warnings and stand by for more clues on the path for US monetary …