Bloomberg Business

The fate of stock options with a face value of trillions of dollars is being influenced by unusual trading activity in the S&P 500 outside regular market hours, new research has found.

A record share of Chinese investors plan to cut their allocation in property over the next year, a new survey showed, underlining the difficulties Beijing is having breathing life back into the sector.

Glencore Plc and Seriti Resources Holdings Ltd. are in talks to cut hundreds of jobs in South Africa as their ability to export coal is stymied by inefficiencies at the state-run freight company.

Boaz Weinstein made his name trading in esoteric corners of the credit markets. But his most audacious bet yet may be trying to catapult his hedge fund firm into the ranks of the industry’s largest players.

As Turkey’s elite flying squad drew the crescent and star of the national flag across Ankara’s sky, Turks on the ground raced for a picture with Selcuk Bayraktar — the man they call a hero for turning the Middle Eastern country into a key global supplier of deadly combat drones.

Dubai said it began repaying a $20 billion bailout loan from Abu Dhabi and the country’s central bank, as part of an effort to reduce its debt burden almost 15 years after the sheikhdom teetered on the brink of default.