Bloomberg The backlash against shale drilling in earthquake-prone regions — a thorn in the side of US energy companies for the past decade — reached China this week after a series of temblors killed two people and reduced homes to rubble. China’s biggest oil and gas producer halted drilling in an area of the country’s shale hub after three quakes …

Bloomberg Global stocks dropped on Tuesday as the rush of optimism over US-China trade talks from earlier in the week faded. The pound rallied as UK Prime Minister Theresa May promised a vote to delay Brexit if her proposed deal fails. S&P 500 Index futures slid and European stocks edged lower after US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of …

Bloomberg Indian stocks and the rupee bounced off the day’s lows as investors assessed the impact of the rising tensions between India and Pakistan against the backdrop of falling oil prices and buoyant emerging markets. The S&P BSE Sensex tumbled as much as 1.4 percent and the rupee lost 0.5 percent in reaction to an air strike on a terrorist …