Bloomberg A potential deal between Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil and petrochemical giants could enable the country’s sovereign wealth fund to raise billions of dollars. Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, is considering buying a strategic stake in the Sabic petrochemical group, Aramco said in a statement, adding that the talks were at a “very early stage.” The Public Investment …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia rejected concerns that it’s planning to oversupply global oil markets and said it will actually trim crude exports next month. The kingdom bolstered production by the most in three years last month, pumping almost 10.5 million barrels a day. Yet it signalled that it won’t go any further for now, saying exports this month will be “roughly …

Bloomberg Anyone following clean energy knew this could be a tough year for solar. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. just put a grim number on how bad. The pace of global installations will contract by 24 percent in 2018, Goldman analysts said in research note. That’s far more dire than 3 percent decline forecast by Bloomberg NEF in the bleakest of …