Bloomberg Everyone knows the rapidly shrinking energy sector has seen its influence on equity indexes wane. But oil-and-gas companies are also losing pull in a corner of the market they once dominated: value stocks. How far have they fallen? As recently as 2012, correlations between the S&P 500 Value Index and the benchmark’s energy companies were often close to 1, ...

Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the oil company that spent more than $50bn to buy natural-gas producer BG Group Plc, is looking to expand demand for fuel in transport to ensure its output is consumed. Shell is studying developing a global network of liquefied natural gas supply hubs for vehicles including ships, Steve Hill, executive vice president for gas and ...

Bloomberg Petroleos Mexicanos has hired the same legal representation used by Brazilian utility Eletrobras to audit its contracts with Odebrecht SA and affiliate Braskem SA amid an ongoing investigation into those two companies by the US Department of Justice. Hogan Lovells US LLP, which for the past two years has been leading an internal audit of state-owned Eletrobras related to ...