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DUBAI / Reuters Middle East stock markets fell on Tuesday as a tumble by real est-ate developer DAMAC caused Dubai to break a seven-session ris-ing streak and weak corporate earnings helped to pull down Egypt’s bourse. The Egyptian blue chip index, which had closed at a record high on Monday, sank 1.7 percent in rising turnover – a negative technical ...

Bloomberg Ecuador has dealt a blow to OPEC unity by announcing it will start raising oil production this month, arguing it needs the money. OPEC has for years cheated on its own agreements, particularly when oil prices fail to recover after an output cut. But Ecuador has taken the rare step of saying publicly it will increase production, making it ...

Bloomberg Oil traded near $46 a barrel as crude production rebounded in Libya, an OPEC member exempt from output curbs. Futures gained 0.3 percent in New York after sliding 1.1 percent on Monday. Libya has increased output to 1.1 million barrels a day, according to a person familiar with the matter. The country will attend a meeting with some OPEC ...

Bloomberg Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent oil trader, walked away from a deal to buy a stake in the Richards Bay Coal Terminal from a company controlled by South Africa’s Gupta family. “The consortium comprising Vitol and Burgh Group Holdings will not be proceeding with the acquisition,” the commodities-trading house said in a statement. The proposed deal, first reported ...

Bloomberg Petronet LNG Ltd. sees a lifeline arriving for its loss-making Kochi liquefied natural gas import terminal by 2019 after it boosts capacity use fourfold. The only LNG terminal in southern India is operating at about 10 percent of its 5 million-ton-a-year capacity, according to Finance Director R.K. Garg. Capacity use may increase to 2 million tons annually after a ...

Bloomberg Oil skeptics are letting a little sunshine in. After the worst June for oil in six years, hedge-fund bets on declining West Texas Intermediate retreated. That made room for futures to rebound more than 5 percent last week on optimism that the summer will finally boost demand for crude and gasoline. “The market is starting to recognize that demand ...

Bloomberg China Three Gorges Corp., a state-owned electricity producer, has emerged as the leading bidder for Odebrecht SA’s Chaglla hydropower plant in Peru, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Odebrecht aims to reach a deal with the Beijing-based company in the next few weeks on the sale of the 456-megawatt power plant, the people said, asking not to ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US wants to reduce trade imbala-nces with Mexico and Canada and boost exports of everything from farm goods to financial services as it prepares to kick off talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement. The office of Trump’s top trade negotiator released the administration’s list of negotiating objectives for talks with Mexico ...

Bloomberg Ericsson AB cautioned that turning around the beleaguered phone-equipment maker will require even steeper cost cuts, testing the patience of investors who sent the stock tumbling the most this year. Ericsson fell as much as 11 percent to 54 kronor in Stockholm after the company posted a second-quarter loss and warned that a faltering market amid technology shifts could ...

Bloomberg The UK housing market will cool this year as uncertainty around Brexit hits the economy, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Home-price inflation will slow to 3.7 percent from 7 percent in 2016, and London will be the most severely impacted, PwC said in a report published Tuesday. The changes reflect the wider economic picture as inflation and Brexit take their ...