Mozambique is teaming up with the energy trading giant Vitol to optimise overseas sales of its natural gas riches.

FedEx offered a dimmer outlook for its current fiscal year and booked quarterly earnings below Wall Street’s expectations, as the group continues to grapple with the fallout from the US-China trade spat and a severed ground-delivery deal with Amazon.

Oil retreated sharply from a historic one-day jump as investors weighed a positive report on the outlook for bringing Saudi Arabia’s output back online after a strike on the country’s production infrastructure at the weekend.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, has failed to clinch an outright majority for his Likud party and other rightwing allies, as exit polls broadcast by Israeli news channels show the bloc garnering less than 61 seats.

President Donald Trump has identified five finalists to serve as his national security adviser following John Bolton’s departure from the White House.

The Department of Justice is seeking to prevent Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about US government surveillance, from profiting off a new memoir.

The former founders of Diamondback Capital Management, which ran $6bn at its peak, have raised $1bn for the second-biggest hedge fund launch of the year.

Rosneft, Russia’s top oil producer, is considering increasing crude supplies to India in light of supply disruption from Saudi Arabia, the company said on Tuesday.

BHP, the world’s largest mining company, will increase the proportion of its chief executive’s bonus that is linked to reducing carbon dioxide emissions and other climate metrics.

1,200 jobs could be lost if Sirius Minerals fails to secure financing for the $5bn potash mine it is developing in one of the UK’s most economically deprived areas, according to the company’s chief executive Chris Fraser.

Private equity group AnaCap has raised €1bn of fresh capital to buy performing and non-performing loans in Europe as investors seek alternative ways to deploy their capital, people with direct knowledge of the transaction said.

Sweden’s unemployment rate rose unexpectedly last month, according to figures that have deepened concerns that the economy’s slowdown has worsened.

Expectations for the German economy have rebounded in the past month as concerns eased about the impact of the US-China trade war and Brexit, according to a closely watched survey published on Tuesday.

A $5bn project to build a huge potash mine under the North York Moors was plunged into fresh doubt after developer Sirius Minerals was forced to pull a crucial $500m bond issue and admit it had failed to secure government backing.

A commuter train derailed in Hong Kong during morning rush hour on Tuesday, in the latest blow to the city’s train operator, which is facing an “unprecedented” crisis as anti-government protesters target stations.

Singapore’s non-oil exports fell for a sixth consecutive month in August with electronics shipments dropping by a quarter amid a regional industry slowdown.

Global stock markets declined while crude prices and haven assets gained on Monday after an attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure knocked out half the country’s production over the weekend and raised geopolitical risks.

Challenging conditions facing the global diamond industry were underlined on Monday after London-listed Petra Diamonds reported widening losses.

Airlines stocks on the western side of the Atlantic remained stuck in the red, as investors weighed up the potential impact from a historic spike in crude prices following a drone strike on oil processing facilities in Saudi Arabia.

US prosecutors have charged three JPMorgan metal traders with a “massive, multiyear scheme” to manipulate markets and warned they were continuing to probe higher echelons at the largest US bank.

Moody’s has downgraded Hong Kong’s rating outlook to negative, citing growing risks to the Asian financial hub’s institutional strength, but maintained its current rating in a break with the recent downgrade by rival Fitch Ratings.

The head of the UK markets regulator has called on Brussels to offer more equivalence permits to smooth potential disruption to markets if the UK leaves the EU without a deal next month.

Eddie Stobart warned its full-year operating profit would be “significantly below the board’s expectations” as it revealed it was in talks with its lenders and considering plans to raise new equity.

Aldi, the discount food supermarket, plans to more than double the number of stores in the London area to 100 after smaller-format shops proved more successful than expected.