Bloomberg The US merchandise-trade deficit narrowed in November to the smallest since December 2020 due to a plunge in imports. The shortfall decreased 15.6% — the most since 2009 — to $83.3 billion last month, Commerce Department data showed on Tuesday. The figures, which aren’t adjusted for inflation, compared with a median estimate for a gap of $96.3 billion …

Bloomberg Soaring heating and electricity bills are pushing Europeans to find hacks that will cut their energy use and reduce costs. Mats Johansson installed 30 solar panels with a production capacity of 13.5 kilowatts on his house in Halmstad, southwest Sweden earlier this year. The nation has some of the highest rates of energy consumption per capita in Europe — …

  Bloomberg South Africa passed 200 days of power cuts in 2022 on Tuesday, with more to come. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said it will ramp up power cuts from so-called stage-1 load shedding, where it removes around 1,000 megawatts from the grid, to stage 3 from 4 pm local time until 5 am for the rest of the week. …