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Bloomberg American International Group Inc. will give Brian Duperreault $12 million in cash, 1.5 million stock options and an annual pay package valued at $16 million to turn around the company as its seventh chief executive officer since 2005. AIG will also pay Duperreault’s previous employer, Hamilton Insurance Group, as much as $40 million over two years to waive their ...

DUBAI / Reuters Middle Eastern stock markets were mixed on Monday with Saudi Arabia rising on the back of a rebound in oil prices and a continued slide by amusement park operator DXB Entertainments helping to drag down Dubai. The Saudi index climbed 0.6 percent. Top petrochemical producer Saudi Basic Industries, whose margins could benefit from higher oil prices, gained ...

Bloomberg Crude rallied on the prospect a deal to cut global supply will be extended, leading a broader advance across commodities and spurring the currencies of major exporters. US stocks advanced, while the dollar retreated West Texas Intermediate jumped more than 3 percent after Saudi Arabia and Russia said they’d extend a production-cut deal longer than expected. The Australian and ...

Bloomberg Vodafone Group Plc is simplifying its holdings in sub-Saharan Africa, selling a $2.6 billion stake in Kenya’s Safaricom Ltd. to its majority-owned Vodacom Group Ltd. The all-share deal will transfer a 35 percent stake in Safaricom to Vodacom in return for stock in the Johannesburg-based unit, raising the parent’s stake in its South African business to about 70 percent. ...

Bloomberg J Sainsbury Plc, the supermarket that’s been selling Britons their bread and baked beans for more than a century, is looking beyond the grocery aisles for a competitive edge in a tough market, seeking inspiration from the catwalks of Los Angeles and Milan. The retailer has created a team of 30 fashion spotters who scour runways around the world ...

Bloomberg Britain’s next government should appoint a commission tasked with choosing the locations for two new runways serving southeast England, the Institute of Directors said. With London Heathrow airport’s third landing strip not due to be completed until 2028 and Gatwick, south of the capital, filling up fast, the commission should be given only a year to determine the best ...

Bloomberg The Indian central bank’s proposal to introduce a new liquidity tool to help manage a banking system flooded with surplus cash is facing opposition from the government, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The government is concerned that the so-called Standing Deposit Facility, or SDF, will give the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) the discretion to set ...

Bloomberg Earnings reports by Japan’s three megabanks on Monday pointed to a fourth straight fall in combined annual profit, even as the impact of negative interest rates begins to ease. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. forecast a 4.8 percent drop in combined net income to 2.13 trillion yen ($18.8 billion) ...

Bloomberg The UK Serious Fraud Office has a ‘pending’ probe into a dispute between Societe Generale SA and the Libyan Investment Authority over bribery allegations, after the bank agreed to pay 963 million euros ($1.05 billion) to resolve a related civil trial this month. A lawyer for the LIA said at a London court hearing Monday that the SFO, which ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay about 125 million euros ($137 million) for an office building under construction in Dublin, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. The person asked not to be identified because the price hasn’t been been announced publicly. The bank’s Irish unit is buying the 200 Capital Dock building from real estate ...