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Emirates Airline President Tim Clark said the group's Dnata unit's exposure to the bankrupt holiday operator Thomas Cook is "not a small amount".

A number of Russian investors are interested in a planned initial public offering of Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco, Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive officer of Russian sovereign wealth fund RDIF, told reporters on Sunday.

Oil prices eased on Monday as scant details on the first phase of a trade deal between the United States and China undercut last week's optimism over the thaw that helped to lift crude markets by 2%.

Bank of America upgraded Nike to neutral from underperform and hiked its price target to $98 from $70, catching up to the stock's recent rally.

Emirates Airline President Tim Clark said on Monday he sees a place for Boeing's 787 aircraft in the Dubai airline's fleet.

Liberty Global has offered to buy up to 500 million Swiss francs ($502.11 million) of newly created Sunrise Communications shares - a move designed to ease through its 6.3 billion franc sale of its Swiss business.

WeWork has opened almost as many new locations in the last 3-1/2 months as it did in the whole first half of this year, likely accelerating the speed with which the office-sharing company is burning through cash as increasingly hard-nosed investors scrutinize its prospects for going public.

Asian share markets firmed on Monday as signs of progress in the Sino-U.S. trade standoff whetted risk appetites, though investors remained wary of the damage already done to the global economy.

Julian Dunkerton, the founder of British fashion group Superdry , has become the firm's permanent chief executive after he won an acrimonious battle for control in April, it said on Monday.

A slide in China's exports picked up pace in September while imports contracted for a fifth straight month, pointing to further weakness in the economy and underlining the need for more stimulus as the Sino-U.S. trade war drags on.

Liberty Global has offered to buy up to 500 million Swiss francs ($502.11 million) in newly created Sunrise Communications shares - a move aimed at rescuing the 6.3 billion franc sale of its Swiss business.

China is still a long way from forking out $50 billion for farm goods from the United States, agriculture industry analysts said on Monday, cautioning that getting there is contingent on removing substantial technical and political hurdles.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) formally authorized the United States on Monday to impose tariffs on up to $7.5 billion of imports of EU goods after a decision earlier this month by a WTO arbitrator over subsidies to planemaker Airbus .

Oil prices eased on Monday as scant details on the first phase of a trade deal between the United States and China undercut last week's optimism over a U.S.-Sino thaw that helped to lift crude markets by 2% at the end of last week.

Emirates doubts it will receive any of the 115 Boeing 777-9s it has ordered next year, its president said on Monday, as the U.S. planemaker grapples with challenges in building the jet.