Reuters Gulf stock markets mostly moved sideways on Wednesday, drawing little strength from rising oil prices, while Egypt pulled back after closing at record highs for three straight days. Brent oil futures rose to $61.70 per barrel, their highest since July 2015, while global equity markets continued climbing. The failure of Gulf bourses to rise on the back of these …

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA is finding it harder to evade the trading slump that’s engulfing rivals. After emerging almost unscathed from the period of low volatility that weighed down Wall Street firms and European investment banks earlier this year, the Paris-based lender posted a bigger-than-expected 17 percent drop in trading revenue in the third quarter, or 15 percent on a …

Bloomberg Turkey’s central bank Governor Murat Cetinkaya said on Wednesday that he expects inflation to accelerate in October and November, driven by a weaker currency and rising oil prices, before the rate starts to ease a month later. The lira declined on the comments. The central bank revised its year-end inflation forecast to 9.8 percent from 8.7 percent three months …