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  There will be the temptation to see Hillary Clinton’s defeat as evidence that a woman can’t rise to the top. If we’re not careful, the dominant gender will whisper in the backroom, let’s not nominate one of them again. But it will happen, nonetheless —and thanks to Clinton. Just seeing her win her party’s nomination and triumph in three ...

  Reuters Stock markets in Saudi Arabia and Egypt continued pulling back on Tuesday after big rallies earlier this month, while some individual stocks in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar moved sharply after MSCI adjusted its indexes. The Saudi index, which had jumped 22 percent between mid-October and Sunday before profit-taking began on Monday, dropped 2.1 percent to 6,493 ...

  London / AFP Europe’s main stock markets forged higher on Tuesday as investors reacted to a surprise dip in British inflation and shrugged off slower-than-expected German economic growth. Britain’s annual inflation rate eased to 0.9 percent in October compared with 1.0 percent a month earlier, despite a Brexit-triggered slump in the pound lifting imported raw material costs for British ...

  CAIRO / Reuters OPEC nations embarked on a final diplomatic effort to secure a deal on oil cuts, with Qatar, Algeria and Venezuela leading the push to overcome the divide between the group’s biggest producers, according to a delegate familiar with the talks. The behind-the-scenes diplomacy comes after bilateral meetings over the weekend failed to resolve the rifts, leaving ...

Bloomberg Oil rebounded from the lowest close in eight weeks as OPEC nations were said to be making a final diplomatic effort toward securing a deal to curb production and stabilize prices. Futures rose as much as 2.6 percent in New York after falling 4.3 percent the previous three sessions. Qatar, Algeria and Venezuela are leading the push to finalize ...

  Bloomberg The oil market is “pretty pessimistic” about OPEC reaching a deal to cut production, BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Bob Dudley said. Oil prices will probably stay around current levels if the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries fails to implement the deal it reached in Algiers in September to limit output, Dudley said in an interview on Bloomberg ...

Bloomberg In Ocean’s Eleven, George Clooney’s gang inserts a recording into a casino security camera system so the guard sees only a video loop from the day before, camouflaging a heist from the safe. In a 2015 cyber attack on a Ukraine power plant, hackers did much the same, playing around for months with the electricity company’s network, disconnecting emergency ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is considering selling stakes in local companies to raise funds for international expansion, according to five people with knowledge of the matter. The Public Investment Fund — with about $100 billion worth of shares in listed local companies including Saudi Basic Industries Corp. and Saudi Telecom Co. — is reviewing the stakes as ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Oger Ltd. reached a preliminary agreement to sell its 20 percent stake in Jordan’s Arab Bank Plc to Fawaz Al Hokair Group for about $1.1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The two family-owned companies plan to make a formal announcement after receiving regulatory approval, the people said, asking not to be identified as the ...

  Bloomberg The crisis sparked by the shortage of cash in India following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-graft measure to ban high-value currency bills has hit the movement of goods in Asia’s third-largest economy. More than half of an estimated 9.3 million trucks under the All India Motor Transport Congress have been affected as drivers abandon vehicles mid-way into their ...