Analysis: Indices

Industrial group Air Liquide explores sale of biomethane assets, sources say

LONDON -Industrial gases giant Air Liquide is exploring the sale of its biomethane assets, according to three sources with knowledge of the plan, as the French group focuses on its core business of...

Global equity funds record first weekly outflow in five weeks

Global equity funds registered their first weekly outflow in five weeks through September 10 as investors locked in profits and trimmed their risk exposure. Major equity markets hit...

Eni CEO, US delegation meet to bolster energy ties

Eni's Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi met the U.S. energy and interior secretaries on Friday as Washington pushes to seal energy supply deals that it hopes will strengthen its influence in the...

Global stocks edge up with dollar, bond yields as Fed rate cuts loom 

MSCI's global equities index edged higher on Friday, after registering a record close in the prior session, while U.S. Treasury yields rebounded after sliding the day before when expectations climbed...

In Europe, "peripheral" countries are leading the rally

This seemed impossible a few years ago. And yet Portugal, Spain, Greece, and soon Italy are borrowing at lower rates than France. The same dynamic is at work in the equity markets: the PIGS are...

French economy to grow 0.8% in 2025 as key sectors rebound, INSEE says

PARIS -France's economy will grow marginally faster than previously expected this year as rebounds in the aeronautics industry, tourism, real estate and agriculture offset weak consumer spending and...

OPEC sticks to oil demand forecasts, says economy doing well

LONDON -OPEC made no changes on Thursday to its relatively high global oil demand growth forecasts for this year and next, and said the world economy was maintaining a solid growth trend in the...

Swiss add lustre to Trump trade deal with gold refining plan, sources say

ZURICH -Switzerland is proposing that its gold industry builds a refinery in the United States or increases its processing capacity there as part of a plan to reduce U.S. trade tariffs, according to...

Digital bank NOBA plans Sweden IPO valuing firm at $3.7 billion

Digital banking group NOBA has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange sometime in the third quarter of this year in a deal expected to value the company at around 35 billion Swedish...

Third cargo from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 discharges and departs China

BEIJING -A third tanker from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 plant, which is under Western sanctions, discharged its cargo and exited a terminal in China on Wednesday, LSEG and Kpler's ship-tracking data...

China cannot be ignored, Britain's trade minister says, as row over embassies clouds ties

Britain's new business minister Peter Kyle, visiting Beijing for the first trade talks since 2018, said China's economic might made it unignorable but that better commercial ties hinged on moving past...

Oil prices slide 2% on worries about global oversupply, US demand

Oil prices slid on Thursday, settling about 2% lower as concerns over possible softening of U.S. demand and broad oversupply offset threats to output from the conflict in the Middle East and the war...

Klarna valued at nearly $20 billion as shares jump in NYSE debut

Klarna shares jumped 30% in their hotly anticipated New York debut, valuing the Swedish fintech at $19.65 billion, ending the company's years-long wait for a listing and underscoring a rebound in the...

Chinese goods redirected to Germany due to US tariffs, researchers say

Chinese goods shipped to Germany surged at more than twice the pace of total imports in the first seven months of the year as U.S. tariffs disrupted global trade flows, according to a study by the...

Edison to buy U.S. LNG from Shell in 15-year deal starting 2028

Italy's energy company Edison on Wednesday signed an agreement with Shell to purchase liquefied natural gas from the United States, expanding its long-term portfolio. The Italian...

Exxon expects EU to sign long-term US gas deals, FT reports

ExxonMobil expects the European Union to sign multi-decade U.S. gas contracts under its pledge to buy billions of dollars of American energy, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. ...

Southeast Asia set to export surplus biofuels to Europe, Petronas executive says

SINGAPORE -Southeast Asia is positioned to export biofuels to other markets such as Europe as production capacity exceeds demand in the region, a senior executive with Malaysian state oil and gas...

Instant View: Anglo, Teck forge $53 billion mining giant in bet on surging copper demand

London-listed Anglo American and Canada's Teck Resources will merge in a $53 billion deal, the companies said on Tuesday, the biggest mining tie-up in more than a decade. The new...

Hot, dry weather seen pushing French wine output below five-year average

PARIS -French wine production is expected to rise 3% from last year's rain-hit season but fall 13% from the five-year average as a heatwave and drought in August and smaller vine area cut output in...