Bloomberg Crude fell a third day after the number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. rose for a second week. Futures fell as much as 1.8 percent in New York after dropping 4.2 percent in the previous two sessions. Rigs targeting crude in the U.S. rose by 3 to 328 last week, capping the longest run of ...

Bloomberg The main union at South32 Ltd.’s Cerro Matoso mine in Colombia, the world’s second-biggest source of ferro-nickel production, said there’s a greater chance of reaching a three-year wage agreement and avoiding a strike after management sweetened its offer. Cerro Matoso is offering workers a 7 percent raise this year, plus inflation-linked increases in 2017 and 2018. The proposal is ...

  Bloomberg Canada’s jobless rate unexpectedly fell in June to the lowest in a year as full-time work increased and people left the workforce. The unemployment rate fell to 6.9 percent in May from 7.1 percent in April, Statistics Canada said from Ottawa. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted the rate would rise to 7.2 percent. Employers added 60,500 full-time jobs, ...