Bloomberg Things haven’t been this bad for the world’s biggest oil stock since Ronald Reagan became president. But brace yourself, 2019 may not be much better. Exxon Mobil Corp, down 22 percent for the year 2018, is headed for worst annual performance since 1981, when US was in recession and a 20-year crude glut was just beginning. The decline comes ...

Bloomberg Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party won almost 90 percent of the seats to give the premier an unprecedented fourth term in a vote marked by tight security, violence and a crackdown on the opposition. Hasina’s Awami League and its close allies won 267 of the 299 seats up for a vote, Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed told ...

Bloomberg Four people died and 68 remain unaccounted for after a gas explosion in a residential building in Russia on Monday morning. Russia’s Investigative Committee launched a criminal case into the incident in Magnitogorsk, about 1,700 kilometres east of Moscow. The inquiry will consider all possible versions of what happened, according to a statement. “Currently, the priority version is explosion ...