Bloomberg The natural gas boom is killing America’s nuclear industry. Wind and solar may finish the job. While nuclear plants struggle to compete with the flood of cheap gas coming from the nation’s shale fields, they still offer a key advantage, supporters say: They generate 24-hour electricity without producing carbon emissions. Renewables, meanwhile, haven’t yet nailed down the storage capacity ...

Bloomberg South Africa raised prices on gasoline and diesel prices for October, blaming the attack on Saudi Arabia’s crude oil infrastructure for the increase. “Had it not been for the stronger rand during this period, the impact of the attacks on Saudi facilities on prices would have been more severe,” Gwede Mantashe, the minister responsible for mining and energy, said ...

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve’s new round of interest-rate reductions just might be working. At least, that’s what one obscure, but key, stock market indicator suggests. For the first time since 2016, companies with fragile balance sheets are outperforming their sturdier peers and the broad market, a pair of Goldman Sachs indexes show. That’s a clear sign that the rate cuts ...