Bloomberg Stock markets in the Gulf declined as tension between the US and Iran kept investors on high-alert. President Donald Trump said the US will impose major new sanctions on Iran on Monday, days after he abruptly called off a plan for airstrikes against the Islamic Republic, but gave no additional detail. The United Arab Emirates civil aviation authority ordered ...

Bloomberg Naspers Ltd-backed cryptocurrency platform Luno is planning to increase its workforce by almost 60 percent to expand its South African headquarters as Bitcoin once again breaches $10,000. The Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange will hire 150 new employees by the end of the year to boost its software-development team, taking its headcount to more than 400 across seven offices in ...

Bloomberg The drumbeat for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut is getting louder, with one policy maker calling for a 50 basis point reduction. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he’d advocated for such a move at the central bank’s June 18-19 meeting, where officials ended leaving rates unchanged. Other policy makers speaking didn’t go as far as Kashkari, ...