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Petrobras rebounds from rout as Monteiro takes over as CEO

Bloomberg Petroleo Brasileiro SA jumped on news that its chief financial officer is taking over as interim CEO, offering some continuity to investors rattled by political pressure at the state-controlled oil producer. Ivan Monteiro was named after the resignation of Pedro Parente, as Brazilian politicians called for a chief executive officer more focussed on the good of the nation than …

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Canadian oil has record day after Enbridge scraps new rules

Bloomberg Canadian crude surged by the most ever after Enbridge Inc. said it won’t implement a new procedure to stop shippers from claiming more space than they can use on a key pipeline linking Alberta’s oil sands with US refineries. Western Canadian Select jumped as much as $12.20 a barrel to $13.80 below the US benchmark, the narrowest spread since …

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Stocks struggle to maintain momentum; dollar climbs

Bloomberg The global rally in risk assets that sent US stocks to a 12-week high sputtered on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 struggling to push higher. Treasuries rose while Italian bonds fell. Contracts for the S&P 500 had signalled the underlying gauge would extend gains following its highest finish since mid-March, but momentum faded as the open neared. After a …

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Oil slides as US asked OPEC for supply increase

Bloomberg Crude declined after the US government was said to have asked Saudi Arabia and other OPEC producers to raise oil supply. The request for a 1 million-barrel-a-day increase follows Washington’s decision to re-impose sanctions on Iranian crude exports that had removed roughly the same amount from global markets when restrictions were previously in place earlier this decade. OPEC pumped …

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UK sells $3.3bn RBS stake after crisis-era bailout

Bloomberg The British government sold a 2.5 billion pound ($3.3 billion) stake in Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, reducing its majority holding a decade after it bailed out the lender during the financial crisis. The state sold 7.7 percent in the lender at 271 pence per share to institutional investors, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Shares in …

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SocGen reaches agreements on benchmark, Libya probe

Bloomberg Societe Generale SA agreed with US authorities to settle probes into interest-rate manipulation and the bribery of Libyan officials, drawing a line under two of the French bank’s biggest legal headaches. SocGen agreed to pay undisclosed penalties to resolve US investigations that it submitted misleading numbers for the London interbank offered rate and, in a separate case, bribed Libyans …

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Bank Negara Malaysia governor offers to resign

Bloomberg Malaysia’s central bank Governor Muhammad Ibrahim offered to resign from his post two years into his term, according to people familiar with the matter, who declined to be identified because the discussions are confidential. The move comes less than a month after Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad won a surprise election victory and his newly installed finance minister, Lim Guan …

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Boeing sharpens threat to suppliers with Safran deal

Bloomberg Boeing Co. is deepening its intrusion on suppliers’ turf by teaming up with France’s Safran SA to design and build auxiliary power units, the compact turbines tucked below a jetliner’s tail that are used to start its main engines and provide power on the ground. The 50-50 partnership will be based in the US, the companies said in a …

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