Bloomberg Abu Dhabi is pushing ahead with an initial public offering for Spanish oil company Cia Espanola de Petroleos SAU, in what could be the largest such deal in a decade. The emirate’s Mubadala Investment Co. will offer a stake of at least 25 percent in Cepsa in the fourth quarter, the state-owned investor said on Monday in a statement. …

Bloomberg The Trump administration will announce that it’s imposing a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods, which Beijing has already said it will retaliate against, reports said. The rate is less than half of the 25% level the administration had initially been considering. Still, American consumers could start feeling the cost of the tariffs for everyday goods, …

Bloomberg The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) needs to keep working with other oil producers to manage global supplies as demand for crude faces ‘headwinds,’ the head of the organisation said. The historic supply deal between Saudi Arabia, Russia and other producers reached in late 2016 needs to become permanent, Mohammad Barkindo, secretary-general of the Opec, said. Oil demand …

BUCHARES / WAM Ways of accelerating cooperation in the investment and trade sectors were the main topic of discussions at a meeting His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region, had with Viorica Dancila, Romanian Prime Minister. The two sides met in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, and discussed boosting ties between the UAE and …

Bloomberg US stocks started the week lower, while Asian equities slumped and European shares gained, as investors grappled with the latest American threats to expand tariffs on Chinese goods. The dollar slipped and emerging-market currencies declined. The S&P 500 Index was pulled down on Monday by technology companies including Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Semiconductor stocks also slumped, …

Bloomberg China’s benchmark equity gauge fell to its lowest close since 2014, before the market’s boom and subsequent bust, while Hong Kong stocks also declined as the US trade dispute and a severe typhoon hurt sentiment. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.1 percent to 2,651.79 points, passing its 2016 post-crash low of 2,655.66. The gauge is one of the worst …

Bloomberg The cost of delivering world trade is about to go up. A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s largest container shipping line, said that customers using its giant box ships will have to pay separately for fuel from 2020, when prices are expected to surge because of tougher environmental standards. The regulations are designed to cut down emissions of sulfur, a …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund raised an $11 billion loan, marking its first-ever borrowing. The loan was larger than initially planned due to strong interest from banks and establishes a core banking group for the Public Investment Fund to work with on future deals, the fund said. “This is the first step in incorporating loans and debt instruments into …

Bloomberg New Jersey is taking a step closer to erecting wind turbines off the coast of some of its most storied beaches. State regulators are about to consider Governor Phil Murphy’s proposed solicitation for 1.1 gigawatts of offshore-wind farms. The process was expected to begin on September 17, subject to approval by the state’s Board of Public Utilities, Murphy said …

Bloomberg More than half of South Africa’s core coal plants are running low on fuel, with at least four holding less than 10 days of supply, and the country’s power utility plans on trucking and railing emergency stocks as far as 400 kilometres (249 miles). State-owned Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. has 15 around-the-clock baseload coal stations throughout the nation, nine …