Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp says an overnight fire at its Baytown, Texas, refinery that injured four people has been extinguished. The blaze occurred at 1 am local time at the plant, which is the fourth-largest in the US, capable of processing more than half a million barrels of oil a day. Gasoline trading in New York jumped as much …

  Bloomberg The billionaire dynasty behind Selfridges & Co has sold the British department store operator to a Thai-Austrian joint venture for about 4 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) in one of the biggest UK retail deals in years. The Weston family said Central Group, which is owned by the Chirathivats, one of Asia’s wealthiest families, and Signa Holding of Austria, …

  Bloomberg Chinese social media platforms erupted over allegations that Walmart Inc had stopped selling items from Xinjiang at its members-only grocery chain Sam’s Club in China, raising the risk that the world’s biggest retailer will be swept into escalating tensions between China and the US over the western province. Posts of screenshots showing no search results for the word …