Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc is appealing a decision by the Australian Taxation Office that has left the company with a bill estimated at A$755 million ($510 million), the Guardian reported. The ATO has been battling with Shell’s local subsidiary for six years regarding tax treatment of its stake in the Browse gas project off the country’s northwest coast, the …

Bloomberg US equity-index futures turned higher along with shares in Europe after a down session in Asia on Monday as investors assessed the latest developments in the Sino-American trade war. The dollar strengthened. Contracts on all three main US equity indexes rose after President Donald Trump said that prospects for a deal with China were better now than at any …

Bloomberg Hong Kong stocks slumped and the yuan weakened to an 11-year low as concern over the US-China trade war spurred risk-off sentiment. The Hang Seng Index closed down 1.9 percentin Hong Kong, after falling as much as 3.6 percent. Meat producer WH Group Ltd, AAC Technologies Holdings Inc and Cnooc Ltd were among the worst performers. The yuan slid …