Bloomberg Mizuho Financial Group Inc.’s first-quarter profit rose, as gains from fee businesses and sales of its shareholdings helped the Japanese lender offset the effects of the central bank’s continuing monetary stimulus program. Net income climbed 36 percent to $1.4 billion in the three months ending June 30 from a year earlier, the Tokyo-based bank said in a statement. Shares …

Bloomberg BP Plc reported a small and unusual loss from oil trading after being caught on the wrong side of Permian basin pipeline bottlenecks that prompted wild gyrations in US crude prices this year. “A lot of people got a little bit caught up in the bottlenecks in the Permian, we had some of that,” BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley …

Bloomberg Crude dipped this month as a slew of factors from threats of weaker demand to key OPEC producers boosting output has weighed on the market. Futures in New York have lost almost 7 percent in July as some of the largest producers are seen raising supply levels. On Tuesday, prices also declined amid low-volume trading and a strengthening dollar. …