Author: KMFSLLP

Agricultural commodity trader Louis Dreyfus on Monday reported lower first-half profits due to the hedging of soy margins, which it said would nevertheless improve its performance for the rest of the year.

* U.S. actively considering waivers on Iran oil sanctions (Previous SINGAPORE, updates prices, adds quotes)

* Trade war weighs on Chinese markets (Adds comments, shares)

Baker Hughes, the world's second-largest oil services company, will take a 5 percent stake in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's (ADNOC) drilling unit for $550 million under a tie-up announced on Monday.

Exotix Capital, an investment bank specialising in developing markets, has teamed up with Saudi Arabia's NCB Capital to provide frontier and emerging markets research and local execution services.

Society would have to enact "unprecedented" changes to how it consumes energy, travels and builds to meet a lower global warming target or it risks increases in heat waves, flood-causing storms and the chances of drought in some regions as well as the loss of species, a U.N. report said...

* China blue-chip index falls 4.3 pct, biggest loss since Feb 2016

* KKR's stake is enough deterrent for any rival bidder-analyst

Fashion chain H&M is acquiring a small stake in Klarna in what will be the Swedish online payments services firm's largest partnership so far.

China's central bank lent 441.50 bln yuan ($63.96 bln) to financial institutions via its medium-term lending facility (MLF) in September, it said on Monday. Outstanding MLF was 5,383.00 bln yuan at the end of September compared with 5,118.00 bln yuan at the...