Analysis: Indices

New look Middle East had started to draw investors... and then came Trump

A historic shake-up of the Middle East is starting to draw international investors, warming to the prospects of relative peace and economic recovery after so much turmoil. President...

HSBC appoints Julian Wentzel as group chief sustainability officer

HSBC has appointed Julian Wentzel as Group Chief Sustainability Officer, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday, confirming the banker in the lender's key role advising...

Oil set for third straight weekly drop on tariff fears

Oil prices rose marginally in early Asian trade on Friday but were on track for a third straight week of decline, hurt by U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed trade war on China and threats of tariff...

TotalEnergies CEO doubles down on US LNG, downplays Trump tariff fears

TotalEnergies will expand its investment in U.S. liquefied natural gas over the next decade as the French company seeks to cement its position as a major exporter of U.S. LNG, its CEO told Reuters on...

Exclusive-LME floor broker Sigma seeking to sell metals unit, sources say

Sigma Broking, one of eight members of the London Metal Exchange allowed to trade on the open-outcry floor, is trying to sell its base metals business three years after joining, two sources with...

Ukraine says it has potential to buy, store LNG from US

Ukraine and other European nations have the potential to buy and store liquefied natural gas from the United States in Ukraine and this could strengthen Europe's energy security as gas transits from...

TotalEnergies CEO says US financing for Mozambique LNG project expected in coming weeks

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne said on Wednesday that financing from the United States for its $20 billion Mozambique LNG project is expected to be approved in coming weeks, with other credit...

Watching AI As An Earnings Booster

Fiona Cincotta, senior analyst of City Index Financial Markets, discusses the impact of AI on tech earnings and regulation in the new Trump administration. She joins Caroline Hyde and Jackie...

Trade war with China casts dark cloud over new US LNG projects

President Donald Trump's emerging trade war with Beijing poses a new threat to billions of dollars in planned U.S. liquefied natural gas export projects, many of which rely on China as a key buyer,...

Shell restarts production at Penguins oil field in UK North Sea

Shell said on Tuesday it has restarted production at the Penguins oil field in the UK North Sea, with a new floating, production, storage and offloading facility. The field's export...

Shein IPO faces judicial review challenge from Uyghur rights group

Fast fashion retailer Shein's plans to list in London face a challenge from a group campaigning against forced labour in China, which said on Monday it would apply for a judicial review of the IPO if...

Britain's FTSE 100 set for worst day in nearly 4 mths after Trump's tariffs roil markets

Britain's benchmark FTSE 100 dropped on Monday and was on track for its worst day in almost four months amid fears that U.S. tariffs could fuel a global trade war. The FTSE 100 was down...

De Beers agrees on fresh sales agreement with Botswana

Miner Anglo American's diamond unit De Beers said on Monday it had finalised negotiations with the Botswana government for a new rough diamond sales agreement and extended mining licences for its...

Trump says Americans may feel 'pain' in trade war with Mexico, Canada, China

President Donald Trump said the sweeping tariffs that he has imposed on Mexico, Canada and China may cause short term pain for Americans as global markets reflected concerns the levies could undermine...

Tech Down on Lingering DeepSeek Concerns -- Tech Roundup

Shares of technology companies fell as lingering concerns about China's transformational emergence in artificial intelligence offset a relatively strong batch of earnings. One money manager said...

Ericsson: Opinion change, from Add to Reduce

OPINION CHANGECHANGE IN OPINIONReduce vs AddCHANGE IN TARGET PRICESEK 86.1 vs 97.9 -12.0%We have updated our model and removed the premium that we had previously applied to the peer group multiples...

Roubini: US to Set Rules of Global Technological Order

Nouriel Roubini, senior advisor at Hudson Bay Capital, explains why he sees the disruption DeepSeek brings to AI as positive for the US economy and global stock markets over the medium term....

European shares at record peak as tech, healthcare lend support

European shares were at a record high on Friday, led by technology and healthcare stocks, even as caution prevailed ahead of the U.S. tariff deadline set by President Donald Trump. The...

Morocco stops German feed grain imports over foot-and-mouth disease

Morocco has halted imports of feed grains from Germany following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the head of Morocco's grain trade federation said on Thursday. The import...