Bloomberg Oil fell as Russia sounded a cautious note on whether Opec and its partners may cut production further, while industry data showed US crude inventories were expanding. Futures fell as much as 1.3% in New York, erasing some of Tuesday’s gains as Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said no countries in the Opec+ coalition had proposed changing the current …

Bloomberg Ghana will no longer have access to $190 million in grants from the Millennium Challenge Corp. after terminating a private consortium’s contract to operate the country’s electricity distribution network. Ghana annulled agreement reached under US agency’s aid program as it questioned legitimacy of payment guarantees supplied by Power Distribution Services Ltd. to secure assets of Electricity Co. of Ghana …

Bloomberg US equity-index futures dipped and European stocks struggled for traction as investors plowed through earnings reports without finding much to justify optimism for global growth. Treasuries and European bonds advanced broadly. S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average contracts fell after Caterpillar’s results missed analysts’ forecasts, sending the stock tumbling in pre-market trading. Contracts on the Nasdaq also edged …