Bloomberg The Hong Kong bourse’s unsolicited takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group Plc was greeted with a scathing rejection and the exchange suffered a further humiliation when China praised the rebuff as well. The official People’s Daily wrote that there are “persistent worries” about Hong Kong given the current unrest, and praised the LSE for citing its ...

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco has told several major Asian buyers that it will supply customers with all contracted oil volumes in spite of the production cuts over the weekend, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The attack on the kingdom’s most important oil production facility halved Saudi output and is crimping the availability of lighter grades such as Arab ...

Bloomberg Russia may hesitate to strike a multiyear deal with the European Union and Ukraine on natural gas supplies after an EU court ruling on a key German pipeline. The judgment reduces the options Gazprom PJSC has to ship billions of dollars of gas to its biggest market without using Ukraine’s pipeline network. But Russia may see the logic in ...