Bloomberg In his final days atop General Electric Co., Jeffrey Immelt still can’t throw off oil’s stink. In his farewell earnings report, the chief executive officer ended his 16-year tenure by telling Wall Street that GE’s earnings are likely to be disappointing the rest of this year. The culprit: sputtering energy markets. It was the latest setback for a CEO …

Bloomberg Australia’s largest power generator, AGL Energy Ltd., has urged the government to exclude coal from its planned clean energy target and said there is no appetite among private investors to fund new coal-fired power plants. AGL, which sources 77% of its electricity generation from coal, said including the fossil fuel in the target would send wrong signal for industry, …

Bloomberg The weather was hot and humid on July 21, 1977, the day the US government began stockpiling oil. It started small. Just 412,000 barrels of Saudi Arabian light crude stashed in a Southeast Texas salt cavern. In the wake of the Arab oil embargo, which sent prices through the roof and forced Americans to ration gasoline, creating a national …