Bloomberg As China looks to buy more from the US this year, its oil purchases are helping a bit. Sales increased by about $1.2 billion in the first four months of 2018 compared with a year earlier, thanks to stronger global crude prices. China has offered to boost purchases of US goods by about $25 billion this year ahead of …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is seeking to sell its portfolio of non-investment grade energy loans, worth about $3 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Frankfurt-based lender, which said in May it was closing its Houston office, is planning to sell the loan book as a whole and has marketed it to North American and European peers, …

Bloomberg Massive offshore wind turbines keep getting bigger, and that’s helping make the power cheaper — to the point where developers say new projects in US waters can compete with natural gas. The price “is going to be a real eye-opener,” said Bryan Martin, chairman of Deepwater Wind LLC, which won an auction in May to build a 400-megawatt wind …