Bloomberg Oil markets may be cheering the prospects of a coronavirus vaccine, but Opec+ can’t celebrate. Crude prices have rallied to a 10-week high on hopes that Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s breakthrough could soon revive the flights, car journeys and other economic activity that underpin fuel consumption. Nonetheless, the alliance of producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia is …

Bloomberg State Grid Corp of China will pay 2.57 billion euros ($3 billion) for an electricity network company in Chile, its first overseas deal in almost a year and a move that resumes its expansion abroad. The Spanish natural gas and power company Naturgy Energy Group SA said it agreed to sell its 96% stake in Chilean electricity networks unit …

Bloomberg Private equity firms that piled into oil-production assets in the past few years now find themselves stuck, and forced to contemplate novel ways to make an exit. Even with the recent vaccine-induced surge in oil prices, industry executives say initial public offerings — the traditional method for realising gains from private-equity consolidation and dealmaking — are unlikely. So one …