Bloomberg India’s equity benchmark is set to snap its longest losing streak since March following a global rally in equities. The S&P BSE Sensex rose 1% to 37,324.84 as of 10:25 am in Mumbai. The gauge had declined in six of the last seven sessions as some investors judged its rebound from March lows as overdone in the backdrop of …

Bloomberg Global remittances could fall by as much as $108.6 billion in 2020 if it takes a year to contain the coronavirus pandemic and reopen economies, according to Asian Development Bank (ADB) economists. “Migrant workers are among the hardest hit groups, with many facing scant job security and limited access to social assistances,” ADB economists James Villafuerte and Aiko Kikkawa …

Bloomberg Oil edged below $40 a barrel in New York as Opec and allied producers started supplying more crude to a global market where many countries are still struggling to contain the coronavirus. Opec+ will pump about 1.5 million barrels more this month than in July as it starts to unwind its historic virus-driven output curbs, with Russia already having …

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI) in Dubai Land Department (DLD) is organising the first virtual real estate conference titled ‘Real Estate post-Covid-19 – Challenges and Solutions,’ in cooperation with a number of entities in Saudi Arabia. The conference, which will be held on August 23-24, will witness the participation of a group of real estate speakers …

Bloomberg Chinese officials are considering a proposal to sell bonds to pay renewable energy subsidies owed to developers, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials have reached out to renewable industry representatives for input on the plan, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. State Grid Corp of China could be the …

Bloomberg US oil giant Chevron Corp posted its worst quarterly loss in at least three decades and warned that the global pandemic wreaking havoc upon energy markets may continue to drag on earnings. Chevron fully erased the value of its Venezuela operations from its books, amounting to $2.6 billion, after they were effectively frozen by US sanctions, and wrote down …

Bloomberg The liquefied natural gas market contracted a third month in July as countries continue to struggle with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Global exports of the fuel last month dropped 9.4% from the previous year, the steepest year-over-year decline since at least December 2017, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. The biggest cuts came from the …

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp is ripping up its debt-fuelled, $30 billion-a-year plan to rebuild an aging worldwide portfolio after cash flow evaporated and threatened the company’s vaunted dividend. The shift by the Western world’s premier oil explorer represents an about-face after more than two years of doing pretty much the opposite of the its biggest rivals, who have been shrinking …

Bloomberg Seven & i Holdings Co, the world’s largest convenience store operator, is betting $21 billion on the future of quick-stop shopping in the US, reviving a once-abandoned deal to make sure the target didn’t fall into the hands of a competitor. The global operator of the 7-Eleven franchise agreed to buy Marathon Petroleum Corp’s gas-station business, adding 3,900 Speedway …

Bloomberg Japan Airlines Co posted its biggest quarterly net loss in at least eight years and decided to forgo paying an interim dividend as it contends with the devastating impact of the coronavirus. The carrier’s first-quarter loss was 93.7 billion yen ($89 million), the most since it re-listed on the Tokyo stock exchange in 2012 after emerging from bankruptcy. Since …