Bloomberg Germany’s RWE Supply & Trading GmBH agreed to a 15-year contract with Sempra Infrastructure to purchase liquefied natural gas from a production terminal set to open in Port Arthur, Texas, in 2027, according to both companies. With the deal, RWE said it had secured sufficient LNG volumes to make full use of its booked regasification capacities for an …

Bloomberg Wholesale power prices surged more than 6,000% in parts of the country during the worst of the recent brutal cold snap — a sign that Americans are likely to face significantly higher winter heating costs once the bills get mailed out. Electricity prices in Houston jumped to almost $3,700 a megawatt-hour on December 23, or a 65-fold increase from …

Bloomberg More tech tantrums. China’s Covid surge. And above all, no central banks riding to the rescue if things go wrong. Reeling from a record $18 trillion wipeout, global stocks must surmount all these hurdles and more if they are to escape a second straight year in the red. With a drop of more than 20% in 2022, the MSCI …