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Bloomberg Markets were largely in a holding pattern on Wednesday, with European stocks struggling to maintain gains and the dollar edging lower as investors awaited fresh insight on the path for borrowing costs in the world’s biggest economy. China’s credit-rating downgrade sank industrial metals. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index erased most of its advance as auto makers fell in the ...

VIENNA / Reuters OPEC and non-member oil producers could deepen output cuts or extend them for a year when they meet in Vienna this week as they seek to clear a global stocks overhang and prop up the price of crude, Kuwait said on Wednesday. The top oil producer in OPEC, Saudi Arabia, favours extending the output curbs by nine ...

Bloomberg Iraq is mulling an oil hedging program to lock in prices for future crude sales, potentially topping a similar deal run by Mexico that is considered the largest energy trade in Wall Street. The Middle Eastern nation is in the very early stages of exploring a hedge for as much as a quarter of either its crude production or ...

Bloomberg Iran’s oil industry bounced back from sanctions last year, cranking up output to recover market share from other OPEC producers. Now that its surge has topped out, Iran supports an extension of the group’s cuts to preserve those gains. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh’s willingness to embrace a deal that leaves Iran room to pump about 3.8 million barrels ...

KUWAIT / Reuters Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), one of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds, said it had incurred a loss of 312 million dinars ($1.03 billion) in the financial year ended in March 2016, according to the country’s state news agency. The loss was 0.2 percent of total assets, KUNA quoted a KIA statement as saying late on Monday, ...

Bloomberg India’s Adani Group could walk away from its $16.5 billion Carmichael coal project in Australia unless a royalties deal can be reached with the state government, according to federal Resources Minister Matthew Canavan. The Queensland government’s failure to agree the terms of the royalty regime for the mine may jeopardize the development in the state’s Galilee Basin, Canavan said ...

Bloomberg Sales of diggers at a five year high. The price of rebar, a steel product used to reinforce concrete, back at 2012 levels. Crude steel output surging to a record. China’s economy may be slowing down but the nation’s old economy is still booming. The government’s effort to keep Asia’s biggest economy on track for its 6.5-percent growth target ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. has quietly amassed a $4 billion stake in Nvidia Corp. making it the fourth-largest shareholder in the graphics chipmaker, according to people familiar with the situation. The Japanese company, which just closed its Vision Fund, disclosed it owned an unspecified amount of Nvidia stock when it announced $93 billion of commitments to the technology investment fund ...

Bloomberg Chinese consumers may have a lot more cash at their disposal than previously thought — and they’re ready to flash it. That’s the upshot of two items throwing fresh light on the outlook for consumer spending, a key metric in China’s much-vaunted shift from an investment- and export-led economy to one more based on people buying things like holidays, ...

Bloomberg Sea Ltd., Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup, has filed confidentially for a potential US initial public offering that could raise about $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Singapore-based company, formerly known as Garena, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in the past few weeks, according to the people, who asked not to ...