Mexico's president said on Thursday officials had signed a deal with Grupo Mexico to compensate the conglomerate for the state taking over a section of railway it operates in southern Mexico, lifting the firm's shares by more than 4%.
Sri Lankan shares closed higher on Wednesday, aided by gains in financial and communication services stocks, while investors await the monetary policy decision from the country's central bank this week where it is expected to keep key rates unchanged.
BlackRock, Korea's SK, Switzerland's UBS and other companies are chasing an investment boom in battery storage plants in Texas, lured by the prospect of earning double-digit returns from the power grid problems plaguing the state, according to project owners, developers.
Credit ratings agency Moody's said on Wednesday it had affirmed Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena's (MPS) Ba2 deposit and B1 senior unsecured debt ratings and changed the outlook to positive from stable amid a restructuring.
Indonesia, the world's top nickel producer, has put on hold plans to tax nickel product exports while it works on creating a price index to ease volatility tied to the London Metal Exchange (LME) benchmark, a senior government official said on Tuesday.