Bloomberg Barclays Plc will reduce office space at its loss-making Japanese securities unit to trim expenses after cutting jobs earlier this year. The UK bank, which rents two floors of the Mori Tower in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills office complex, will vacate about half of the 31st floor as early as this year while keeping its space on the 32nd, …

  Bloomberg American Express Co. can prohibit merchants from steering customers to credit cards with lower transaction fees, a federal appeals court ruled in a blow to businesses trying to reduce annual card fees that run around $50 billion. The decision by the appeals court in Manhattan is the most definitive ruling on AmEx’s relationship with merchants. A federal judge …

  Grangemouth / AFP A tanker carrying the first shipment of shale gas from the United States arrived on Tuesday in Britain, where there are currently no commercial fracking operations because of fierce public opposition. The ship arrived at Grangemouth, a sprawling energy complex on the River Forth near Edinburgh in Scotland, where the North Sea offshore oil and gas …