Elsewhere on the international front this morning:

• “A gulf Arab political figure visited Israel last week… reinforcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent claim that relations with Arab states have never been better,” Bloomberg reports.
• BP has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to USD 100 mn in an IPO of its US pipeline assets on the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reports.
• Oh, and Ferrari will unveil today a new model it’s dubbing Portofino, which will start at about USD 225k to attract more “average” (as in “garden-variety rich” consumers, the Wall Street Journal reports. The teaser image, below, has us drooling. See more on the Ferrari site (here and here, both pre-show) and on Car and Driver.