Bloomberg Oil’s bear market may finally be taking its toll on the shale boom. Hours after Halliburton Co. warned that explorers are “tapping the brakes” on drilling, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said it’s trimming spending in the first earnings report this quarter from a major shale producer. That could make this week a turning point for the troubled global oil market ...

Bloomberg A dairy farm in the home of the world’s biggest energy exporter is considering using cow dung to meet its power needs. Saudi Arabia’s National Agriculture Development Co. is planning to develop a $200 million biomass plant fired by excrement from its bovines, according to people familiar with the matter. Nadec, as the dairy company is known, is in ...

Bloomberg A bevy of corporate earnings pulled US stocks higher, while European equities climbed on rising confidence among German businesses. Treasuries retreated with the dollar as the Federal Reserve began its policy meeting. Earnings from Caterpillar Inc. and McDonald’s Corp. led to outsize gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while Alphabet Inc.’s disappointing results weighed on technology indexes. Banks ...