Bloomberg Mexico has taken the first step in its annual oil hedging program, asking Wall Street banks for price quotes on the put options it buys to lock in prices for the follo- wing year, according to people familiar with the matter. Mexico usually buys put options from a small group of investment banks, starting as early as May but ...

Bloomberg The most intense heat of the year across the US East Coast may fire up electricity and natural gas prices as households and businesses crank up their air conditioners over the next several days. Simmering temperatures expected to sweep across the US Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Northeast over the next five days may boost power demand to a nine-month high, ...

Bloomberg European energy markets started to feel the impact of the escalating diplomatic row in the Middle East after natural gas prices soared when tankers full of Qatari fuel abruptly changed course. Two ships bound towards Europe veered course, taking them away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal, the transit route for gas into the Mediterranean Sea and a ...

Bloomberg Indian citizens cannot be forced to enroll for a 12-digit unique identity number to be able file tax returns, the country’s top court said in a ruling that may be a hurdle for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to move transactions online. The Supreme Court partially stayed a law that made the Aadhaar card mandatory for filing returns or ...

Bloomberg China’s producer price gains moderated following further easing in commodity prices, signaling weaker overall inflation pressure in the pipeline. Producer price index rose 5.5 percent in May from a year earlier, compared with an estimated 5.6 percent in a Bloomberg survey and 6.4 percent increase in April. Consumer price index climbed 1.5 percent, versus a prior gain of 1.2 ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s economy may be picking up, but consumers aren’t feeling it. After two years of below-par growth, economists and even the government are becoming more positive on the outlook. While it’s not boom time yet, the consensus is that 2017 growth will come in higher than last year’s 2 percent. A large part of that is down to exports: ...

Bloomberg Australia saw off recession fears this week, though the economy remains anemic. The local dollar surged toward its best weekly gain since March, only to run into turbulence when data dump showed a tumble in exports. A flattening yield curve and a sliding stock market also highlighted concerns that the nation’s 26-year streak of recessionless growth is getting weary. ...

Bloomberg The largest real estate buyout of all time is set for its final chapter as Blackstone Group LP moves towards selling San Francisco’s landmark Ferry Building and two other properties. The waterfront icon, with its soaring clock tower modeled on the 12th-century Giralda bell tower in Seville, will go on the sales block in coming weeks, a decade after ...

Bloomberg The UK election result will create more uncertainty for the London property market, affecting values and sales volumes, real estate brokers say. London homebuilders that develop high-end homes dropped after the hung parliament. Crest Nicholson Holdings Plc fell 6.7 percent, the most in 11 months, and was down 5 percent at 580 pence at 1:16 p.m., making it the ...

Bloomberg Of all the things the UK economy needs, more uncertainty isn’t one of them. Prime Minister Theresa May’s loss of her majority in Parliament after an election gamble has muddied the outlook for oncoming Brexit negotiations and the economy. After a campaign largely devoid of economic arguments, the new government faces a slew of policy challenges and threats to ...