Bloomberg Oil traded near $48 a barrel as the market remained volatile after the U.K. last week voted to leave the EU. Futures rose as much as 0.7 percent after declining 1.5 percent earlier in New York, following Friday’s 4.9 percent slump, the biggest drop in four months. The turmoil in financial markets continued on Monday with the pound ...

  Bloomberg New York’s landmark Waldorf Astoria hotel is scheduled to close in spring 2017 so owner Anbang Insurance Group Co. can begin converting most of the more than 1,400 rooms to luxury condominiums, said a person with knowledge of the plans. The luxury hotel, managed by Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., is set to reopen as many as three years ...

  It was 22 years ago this month when the U.S. was preparing for combat. North Korea’s expanding nuclear weapons program prompted President Bill Clinton to order reinforcements. The administration was lining up votes in the U.N. Security Council to impose economic penalties on the Pyongyang government, which repeatedly denounced sanctions as a “declaration of war.” Any investors could see ...