Bloomberg Glencore Plc, the world’s largest commodities trader, started to loosen ties with Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska after the US imposed harsh sanctions against his business empire. Glencore won’t proceed with a plan to swap its 8.75 percent stake in aluminum producer United Co. Rusal for shares in another one of Deripaska’s companies, London-listed En+ Group Plc. Chief Executive ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said the US will respond “forcefully” to a suspected chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime over the weekend, after suggesting earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin may share responsibility. “We’re making a decision on what we do in respect to the horrible attack that was made near Damascus and it will be met ...

Bloomberg An FBI raid on his personal lawyer’s office cut close to home for Donald Trump, prompting an angry reaction from the president that revived fears he might do the unthinkable and fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “Attorney–client privilege is dead!,” Trump said early Tuesday in a posting on Twitter. He followed up with: “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!” In an ...