Bloomberg Iran may join other oil suppliers in freezing production after restoring its own output to levels before sanctions were imposed, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said after meeting with the Persian Gulf nation’s oil minister. Iran has “reasonable arguments” not to be constrained by the freeze for now, Novak told reporters at the Russian embassy in Tehran. “Iran may ...

Bloomberg Portuguese bonds led a decline in the debt of Europe’s lower-rated nations, underperforming their German counterparts for the first time in five days as a slump in stocks reduced demand for higher-yielding assets. Spanish securities also fell amid the political turmoil facing the country. The bonds of the euro zone’s so-called peripheral members had been rallying since the European ...

Bloomberg Italy’s economy will keep recovering from recession slowly but surely and avoid a renewed slump this year and next, a Bloomberg survey of analysts showed. The euro region’s third-biggest economy will extend the expansion that started last year, said 19 of 25 respondents in the poll published on Tuesday. Still, the pace of growth in 2016 and 2017 will ...