Bloomberg The Swiss may have a trick up their sleeves for smoothing relations with their neighbours that the British don’t. The country of 8 million at the heart of Europe will get the chance to hold a second plebiscite on EU immigration, after a 2014 vote that jeopardizes its current arrangement with the bloc. That’s what some in the ...

  Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. is doubling down on Papua New Guinea, topping a rival offer for InterOil Corp., a gas explorer focused on the Southeast Asian nation. The energy giant’s offer values InterOil at $2.5 billion, including debt, beating an earlier bid from Oil Search Ltd. and Total SA. Exxon already runs Papua New Guinea’s only liquefied natural gas ...

  Bloomberg Gold is in a major bull market and may surge to more than $1,500 an ounce as low interest rates buoy demand and the U.S. presidential election looms, according to DBS Group Holdings Ltd., which foresaw this year’s rally and is now advising investors to buy any declines. “Gold has seen four major bull markets since 1970: this ...