Bloomberg The run-up to $100 oil is giving some investors pause.This year’s longest buildup of hedge-fund bets on higher Brent crude prices is faltering, with bulls retreating for the first time in six weeks. After fears of dramatic shortfalls from Iran sent the global benchmark on a tear and triggered speculation that it will reach three digits, the rally is ...

Bloomberg Chinese investment in Australia plunged 40 percent in 2017 from the year before, according to research released on Monday. After peaking in 2016 at A$14.9 billion ($10.5 billion), investment from Chinese companies last year slumped to A$8.9 billion, according to the Australian National University database. In 2017, Chinese deals in Australia’s mining sector accounted for just over half of ...

Bloomberg Malaysian contractors are plunging as the government intensified its efforts to rein in spending by reducing the cost of an almost $14-billion mass-rapid transit project. Shares of Gamuda Bhd. slid by a record and MMC Corp. fell to the lowest in nine years, after the Finance Ministry rejected an offer from the MMC-Gamuda consortium to build an underground portion ...