Bloomberg The Bakken shale is roaring back to life, and Kevin Black sees the evidence almost every day as he looks out the window of his blue Ford F-150 pickup truck. The president of Creedence Energy Services, which provides chemicals for oil wells, Black, 29, drives about two hours to Williston, North Dakota, at the heart of the oil-rich formation, ...

Bloomberg A group of pro-European lawmakers are using the tools of Parliament to try to force PM Theresa May to maintain trade ties with Europe after Brexit, a move that will delight business but stoke further division within May’s Conservative Party. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Ken Clarke and former Business Minister Anna Soubry have proposed an amendment that would ...

Bloomberg Vodafone Group Plc and Liberty Global Plc are looking to redraw their European spheres of interest, with the UK mobile carrier saying it wants to buy competing assets in the region as cable pioneer John Malone retrenches. Vodafone didn’t disclose the specific markets but said the talks concern continental Europe, ruling out the UK where both companies are headquartered. ...

Bloomberg The US Justice Department has offered to settle its emissions-cheating lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV if the automaker recalls 104,000 vehicles and pays a substantial but unspecified civil penalty. The proposed framework of an offer was extended to the Italian-American car company and included steps it would have to take to mitigate its past pollution and make internal ...

Bloomberg Dell Technologies Inc. confirmed it’s still weighing options, including an initial public offering or a combination with VMware Inc. Dell said it’s evaluating potential business opportunities but hasn’t yet made a decision on which one to pursue. While an IPO or a combination with VMware are both on the table, Dell isn’t including a sale of either company to ...

Bloomberg Some of Ukraine’s biggest corn growers are reluctant to expand production even though prices have recovered to an 18-month high. Part of the problem is that export prices for the crop are still just half of a 2011 peak and shippers are facing fierce competition from Brazil. Ukrainian farmers have had a tough time with corn after unfavourable weather ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May and her Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang set thorny political issues aside and offered a bullish vision of the two countries’ blossoming trade relationship after Brexit. The two leaders put their countries on the path towards negotiating a future free-trade agreement, setting up a high-level panel to review and expand commercial ties. A British official ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump was eager to have a Republican memo alleging bias in the Russia probe released to the public, several people around him said. Now that’s it out, Trump took to Twitter to promote it for that purpose — although the document may not be as effective as the president wants it to be. It didn’t, for one ...

Bloomberg Given all the tension US President Donald Trump has fomented with Mexico over the border wall and immigration, it was surprising to hear the country’s foreign minister say ties are better than they’ve been for a long time. “That’s a fact of life,” Luis Videgaray said at a news conference in Mexico City with US Secretary of State Rex ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel said German parties need to overcome “very serious differences” if they want to seal a government pact this weekend and pave the way for her fourth term. Heading into her coalition-building endgame , Merkel said she’s “hopeful that we can make it work.” Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz, whose party is split over whether to stay ...