Bloomberg Oil surged the most in more than five months as Saudi Arabia and Russia extended a cooperation pact and US-China trade tensions cooled. Unprecedented supply cuts in Canada also drove prices higher. Futures in New York advanced almost 6 percent on Monday, bouncing back from the worst monthly slump in a decade. Although Russia and Saudi Arabia have yet …

MOSCOW / WAM Russian newspapers and news agencies highlighted the UAE’s historic achievement of making the UAE passport the world’s leading passport, coinciding with the Year of Zayed and the 47th National Day. In a press release, RIA Novosti and Vesti Roy said that the UAE passport is ranked first in the passport index while noting the tweet of His …

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said in a tweet that China has agreed to “reduce and remove” tariffs on imported American-made cars, a claim that wasn’t immediately confirmed by Beijing. Trump gave no other details in his post, which came shortly after he agreed with Chinese President Xi Jinping to a truce in the trade war during a meeting at the …

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) will organise Dubai Property Show (DPS) – Mumbai and Luxury Property Show (LPS) – Shanghai, where the former will be held from December 7-10 in Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India, and the latter on December 7 – 9 in the Shanghai Exhibition Centre in Shanghai, China. HE Majida Ali Rashid, CEO …

Bloomberg Canada’s largest oil producing province ordered an unprecedented output cut, an effort to ease a crisis in the nation’s energy industry and adding to global actions to combat a recent price crash. The plan will reduce production of raw crude and bitumen from Alberta by 325,000 barrels a day, or 8.7 percent, from January until excess oil in storage …

Bloomberg The Australian government hounding the gas sector to get power bills down is overlooking the surge in the price of coal, which fuels the bulk of the country’s generation. The cost of coal power in Australia has doubled from 2016 levels, in line with seaborne spot prices of the fuel, Bloomberg NEF said in a report on Monday. That’s …

Bloomberg Vivint Solar Inc dropped the most in more than two years after saying a fund managed by Blackstone Group LP, its biggest owner, is selling 8 million of the rooftop solar company’s shares at a 21 percent discount. Vivint fell 21 percent to $5.51 at 11:33 am in New York, after earlier sliding as much as 22 percent. That’s …

Bloomberg One recent afternoon in the Indian city of Pune, a 35-year-old mason named Om Prakash Gaekwad gets a crash course in technology. He watches a street-corner skit explaining the virtues of WhatsApp’s messaging service and Reliance Jio’s wireless network. He then climbs aboard a truck to find out how to set them up. Half an hour later, he’s made …

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG and Tesco Plc plan to build the UK’s largest vehicle-charging network spanning 2,500 bays across some 600 stores in the next three years, even as buyers have so far stayed on the fence and economic fallout from Brexit is difficult to predict. Customers will be able to charge their electric and plug-in hybrid cars using a 7-kilowatt …

Bloomberg Worldwide delivery service DHL is deploying artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and product-picking robots at its warehouses in North America to help handle the surge in e-commerce demand. The US unit of Deutsche Post AG will spend $300 million on its plan to equip 350 of its 430 facilities with new technology that includes autonomous trolleys that shadow human workers …