Bloomberg L’Oreal SA shares tumbled as a drop in North American sales raised concerns that a makeup boom fuelled by beauty bloggers and selfies has lost steam. The stock fell as much as 4.9 percent in Paris trading, the most in three years. The sales decline in a crucial region came even as demand from China lifted the world’s biggest …

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a further follow-on pipeline infrastructure investment agreement with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. GIC will invest $600 million in select Adnoc crude pipeline infrastructure, following BlackRock, KKR and the Abu Dhabi Retirement Pensions and Benefits Fund (ADRPBF) who earlier this year …

Bloomberg The pound slumped for a fourth day as investor concerns over a no-deal Brexit intensified. Sterling continued its slide versus both the dollar and the euro, with investors pricing a higher chance of the UK crashing out of the European Union on October 31. As differences between the two sides increase, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said the UK …