Sydney / AFP Australia’s richest woman and a Chinese property developer joined forces Sunday to bid for one of the world’s largest cattle estates, despite Canberra’s rejection of previous foreign offers. Australia’s biggest private landowner, cattle firm S. Kidman and Co, has attracted keen interest from Chinese firms wanting to secure the sprawling pastoral empire. But the government has ...

  Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s financial affiliate appointed a new chief executive officer as it prepares for a highly anticipated 2017 initial public offering. Zhejiang Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group Co. named finance veteran and President Eric Jing to take the helm from Lucy Peng, who retains her role as executive chair, according to an e-mailed statement ...

  Bloomberg Three of China’s largest cities plan to limit the pool of drivers for online ride-sharing services, dealing a blow to Didi Chuxing, the firm that agreed to acquire the Chinese business of Uber Technologies Inc. Draft rules issued by Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen said that only holders of local residency permits — called hukou — would be able ...

  Bloomberg Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison said he doesn’t see much appetite for further cuts to his nation’s already record-low interest rates, while stressing that’s a decision for new central bank Governor Philip Lowe. “From our perspective, the old pushing-against-the-string analogy is very relevant,” Morrison said in an interview at the International Monetary Fund’s headquarters in Washington. “It’s up to ...

  NEW DELHI / AP A section of the cargo terminal at New Delhi’s international airport was cordoned off Sunday after a suspected radioactive leak, but officials later said the radiation posed no danger to people and called off the emergency. The leak at Indira Gandhi International Airport was suspected to have occurred from a package containing cancer medicine that ...

  Bloomberg Shanghai, China’s financial hub, is putting in place new measures to curb a surge in property prices as part of the country’s latest push to ensure stable and healthy real estate development. The new steps announced by the city’s housing commission include increasing land supply and forbidding price increases in new home pre-sales without approval. In addition, punishment ...

DUBAI / Reuters Banking shares dragged Saudi Arabian stocks lower on Sunday while most other Gulf markets were sluggish as investors waited for third-quarter corporate earnings announcements. Good news on Egypt’s International Monetary Fund loan boosted that market. The Saudi stock index sank 2.2 percent as the banking index tumbled 4.5 percent. Banque Saudi Fransi plunged by its 10 percent ...

Bloomberg U.S. stock market investors have put Dec. 14 firmly in their crosshairs. Amid a range of reports showing the U.S. economy can withstand an interest-rate increase, investors are punishing industries likely to suffer with tighter monetary policy and shifting cash into groups that benefit from higher borrowing costs and economic growth. The S&P 500 Index tumbled 0.7 percent to ...

  Bloomberg The United Nations accord reached to clean up pollution from international aviation may cost airlines as much as $23.9 billion annually by 2035. The companies see it as a victory. The landmark deal brokered in Montreal creates a global system requiring airlines to compensate for emissions growth after 2020 by funding environmental initiatives. That spares carriers from exactly ...

  Bloomberg Improvements in Old Navy’s product selection brought a sales surge to Gap Inc.’s biggest chain last month — and the stock’s biggest rally in almost eight years. The brand’s same-store sales gained 4 percent in September, Gap said. Analysts had projected growth of less than 1 percent, according to Retail Metrics. The results helped offset an overall sales ...