Bloomberg The Middle East’s largest ports banned entry to all vessels sailing to and from Qatar, deepening the economic isolation of the gas-rich Gulf state from its largest Arab neighbours. Maritime authorities in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain all said they had closed their berths to ships traveling in and out of Qatari ports. The impact was …

Bloomberg In an eerily quiet nuclear reactor hall in southern Sweden, new copper and steel machinery stretching 50 meters and weighing hundreds of tons is just sitting idle. Bought from France and Germany as part of a $450 million upgrade at the now defunct Oskarshamn-2 facility, the turbines, steam pipes and feed-water pumps were supposed to help supply cheap electricity …

Bloomberg Oil pared gains after the industry-funded American Petroleum Institute was said to report a jump in fuel stockpiles last week. API was said to report that US gasoline stockpiles rose by 4.08 million barrels last week, outweighing a 4.62 million-barrel drop in crude supplies. Distillate stocks incre- ased by 1.75 million barrels. A Bloomberg survey found that US crude …