Bloomberg UBS Group AG’s two biggest legal cases in years are entering the final stretch in a test of Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti’s strategy of taking on French and US authorities. The Swiss bank was hit with a long-expected US fraud lawsuit that accused it of fuelling the 2008 financial crisis by deceiving investors who bought billions of dollars …

Bloomberg China’s central bank (PBOC) said the global outlook is worsening and that it’ll tweak its policy in a sign that trade tensions with the US are hurting the world’s second-largest economy. “External conditions are undergoing profound changes, downward pressures are increasing, some companies are seeing more difficulties in their operations, risks accumulated over the long term are being exposed,” …

Bloomberg Russia’s oil industry is feeling the pressure of a possible return of production caps. In fact, by sacrificing a fraction of output, the companies could see their stocks rise. Fresh output curbs may push crude prices up, benefiting Russian producers just as they did during the cuts that began last year. The Moscow Oil & Gas Index has gained …