The Gulf Time Newspaper One of the finest business newspapers in the UAE brought to you by our professional writers and editors.

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan had its first loss since Haruhiko Kuroda became governor after the value of foreign currency assets fell, it wrote down bond holdings and set aside more money to cover potential future losses on its holdings of government debt. The bank posted a net loss of 200.2 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in the six months ...

  AFP The board chairman of Portugal’s troubled state-owned Caixa Geral de Depositos bank has resigned after weeks of pressure as he refused to declare his assets, the government announced late Sunday. Portugal’s Socialist government said it “regretted” Antonio Domingues’ decision, adding he would not leave his post until the end of December. A finance ministry statement said the government ...

  Bloomberg Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.’s purchase of Barclays Plc’s wealth-management units in Singapore and Hong Kong was priced at $227.5 million, 29 percent below an initial estimate, after the amount of assets being transferred fell. The final price is based on 1.75 percent of the $13 billion of Barclays assets transferred to Bank of Singapore, OCBC’s private-banking arm, the Singaporean ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of England added a new, higher bar to its third round of public stress tests. Some of the UK’s biggest banks will scrape through; others may not clear it. The seven major British lenders tested will probably beat the lowest measures of strength required to pass the annual BOE health check when it is released Wednesday, ...

  Bloomberg OPEC is embarking on a last-ditch diplomatic push to reach a production cut, with ministers flying to Russia for talks, as Saudi Arabia for the first time suggested the oil-club doesn’t necessarily need to curb output. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet on Wednesday in Vienna to try finalize the terms of its first production decrease ...

  Bloomberg After two tough years of falling oil prices and company valuations, investors in the world’s biggest energy producers have some cause for hope as crude prices continue their recovery from a 12-year low. They will be looking to OPEC not to dash it. Oil companies around the world have together added $490 billion to their market value this ...

  Bloomberg Oil rose as Iraq pledged to cooperate with OPEC to reach an agreement this week that’s acceptable to all members. Futures rose as much as 2.7 percent in New York, reversing an earlier decline. Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said Monday he’s “ optimistic” a deal will be reached at OPEC’s summit in Vienna on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia ...

  AFP Jordan said on Monday it had chosen five international consortiums to build the first phase of a multi-million-dollar canal linking the Red Sea to the shrinking Dead Sea. The ambitious $1.1 billion project has been in the works for more than a decade and aims to provide much-needed water to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. It moved ...

  Bloomberg Iran’s Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. is in talks with Asian companies to raise as much as 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) for an expansion including a methanol project intended to serve China and other Asian customers. An Italian company is “in the forefront” as a potential investor in the company, according to Touraj Seyed Arvanaghi, managing director ...

  Riyadh / AFP Arid Saudi Arabia could need more than $53 billion in water sector investment supported by private funds as demand grows, officials said on Sunday. The world’s largest oil exporter, whose petroleum revenues fell 51 percent last year on declining crude prices, is pushing to diversify its economy through greater private sector investment and development of new ...