Bloomberg China last month imported two tankers of US liquefied natural gas, nudging open a doorway that had been closed shut for a month at a time when America is rapidly expanding its ability to export the heating fuel. The three operating US terminals soaked up more than 5.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas from American shale basins, the …

Bloomberg The Nikkei 225 Stock Average slid into a bear market, as a global equity rout continued unabated in the last week of the year, with renewed turmoil in Washington rattling investors. The yen and Japanese bonds rose. The Japanese benchmark fell 5 percent on Tuesday, widening its drop to 21 percent from its October 2 peak, taking its cue …

Bloomberg Mounting political risks from Washington are adding to reasons for traders to be bearish about the dollar as the market hurtles towards the end of 2018. Most forecasters were already predicting that the greenback, which this month touched its strongest level in a year and a half, would be in for a rougher time in 2019. Much of that …