Bloomberg Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund plans to expand in the UK and the US, as top officials said long-term commercial opportunities would outweigh political uncertainty roiling the two countries. The gas-rich Gulf emirate will add 5 billion pounds ($6.3 billion) to its UK portfolio in the next three to five years, and will set up an office soon in …

  Reuters Light crude surged in Canada and the northern US after an oil-sands upgrader shut for maintenance because of a fire and Energy Transfer Partners LP said it was preparing to place the Dakota Access pipeline into service. Synthetic crude’s premium to West Texas Intermediate futures jumped $1.45 to $4.70 a barrel Monday, the strongest in more than a …

  Bloomberg Oil advanced as OPEC member Libya halted the pipeline from its biggest field, tempering concerns that a surplus in the US continues to expand. West Texas Intermediate futures rose as much as 1.1 percent. Libya’s output has dropped to 560,000 barrels a day following the shutdown of the pipe from the Sharara field, according to a person with …