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Bloomberg Hudson’s Bay Co. Chairman Richard Baker may scrap an offer to take the struggling retailer private after regulators delayed a vote on the deal following complaints from a minority shareholder. The investor group that controls the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue is “evaluating next steps, including terminating the transaction,” according to a memo sent to advisers. The group plans …

Bloomberg Online shoppers are getting fewer discounts on toys this holiday season, despite an effort by retailers to start sales earlier to offset a shorter shopping season. Toys were discounted on average 15-18% this year compared to average drop in pricing of 31% last year, UBS analyst Arpine Kocharyan wrote in a note, citing e-commerce trends tracked by Adobe Inc. …

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE on Monday announced AED55 million ($15 million) for school supplies that will support 400,000 students in Sudan. The monetary aid, provided by Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), covers educational necessities, including classroom equipment. ADFD, in cooperation with the Sudanese government, supervised the delivery of the first shipment of school supplies that covers the …

Bloomberg Boeing Co. dropped the most in nearly two months on news that the company is weighing a temporary production halt for the grounded 737 Max. With regulatory approval for the jet’s return increasingly likely to slip beyond January, Boeing’s board is considering whether to slow already-pared output of its best-selling jet, a person familiar with the matter said. Some …

Bloomberg Oil steadied near a three-month high on cautious optimism that a preliminary trade deal between the US and China will support global fuel consumption. Futures held near $60 a barrel in New York after settling at the highest since September 16. While the partial trade deal leaves most of the tariffs built up over the 20-month conflict in place, …

Bloomberg Hong Kong dollar bears are abandoning bets the currency will weaken, squeezed by the longest streak of gains in more than five years. The local dollar rose as much as 0.13% to 7.7867 versus the greenback on Monday, taking its six-day gain to about 0.5% — a large move for a pegged exchange rate. Supporting the advance are bets …

Bloomberg India’s central bank governor Shaktikanta Das said there’s more room for easing monetary policy, but a lot depends on how these actions are timed. “It’s a very clear forward guidance,” Das said at the Times Network India Economic Conclave in Mumbai on Monday. “While taking a pause, we very carefully and definitively said there’s space for further monetary action, …

Bloomberg UBS Group AG plans to restructure the unit that serves the bank’s top billionaire clients in the first sweeping changes under its new co-head of key wealth management Iqbal Khan. Khan and co-head Tom Naratil are seeking to break apart the ultra high net worth unit led by Joseph Stadler and move some less rich clients into the regional …

Bloomberg The pound pared earlier advances following disappointing economic data, as the gloomy economic picture countered the optimism in the market following the decisive Conservative victory in last week’s election. Sterling returned to the flatline after purchasing managers’ indexes from UK factories posted their weakest performance in more than seven years. The currency had earlier advanced against all its major …

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will leave monetary policy unchanged this week, and probably for much longer, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled a stimulus package to bolster growth, according to a Bloomberg survey. All 45 economists polled expect no action from the bank at the end of a two-day meeting on Thursday. For the first time since April, …