Bloomberg US crude explorers reduced drilling to a 15-month low as oil dipped into bear-market territory. Working American oil rigs fell by 11 this week to 789, according to data released by oilfield-services provider Baker Hughes. More than half the decline happened in the Permian Basin, the biggest source of American crude. Crude futures traded in New York fell into …

Bloomberg China’s Trina Solar Ltd., one of largest panel manufacturers, says it’s well insulated from the growing trade dispute with the US. The reason: the last trade dispute with the US. When the US imposed anti-dumping penalties on solar panels imported from China under President Barack Obama, Trina built factories in Thailand and Vietnam to serve American customers, said Steven …

Bloomberg For all the shine and sophistication, for all the jargon, robots and quants, financial markets are still only this: Buyers buying and sellers selling, times a billion. Behind every trade — perhaps far behind — there is an actual human person. Two, in fact. And because humans disagree a lot, markets do too. And do they ever disagree just …