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LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Portfolio investors tip-toed back into crude oil as Saudi Arabia extended its unilateral production cut for at least another month, dissipating some of the extreme pessimism gripping the market at the end of June.Hedge funds and other money managers purchased the equivalent of 47 million barrels in the six major petroleum futures and options contracts over the week ending on July 3-4.Buying was concentrated in crude (+52 million barrels) with purchases of Brent (+25 million) and NYMEX and ICE WTI (+27 million), according to exchange...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, July 9 (Reuters) - An unusually long lag in the time interest rate hikes are taking to feed through to the economy has left corporate leaders guessing whether to prepare for a hard or soft landing.Although central banks in the United States and Europe have raised interest rates at the fastest pace in decades in an effort to tame inflation, most economies have so far escaped the painful recessions triggered by previous tightening cycles.For corporate leaders at a weekend economics conference in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence,...