Bloomberg Oil prices climbed to a two-month high as China was said to offer a trillion-dollar buying spree to defuse trade tensions with the world’s biggest economy. Futures climbed 3.3 percent in New York to cap the third straight weekly increase. Bloomberg News reported China proposed a six-year shopping binge for American goods, diminishing concerns about a brake on economic …

Bloomberg The Japanese conglomerate Hitachi Ltd confirmed it will halt work on its nuclear power project in the UK, delivering a blow both to its ambitions to export more of its technology and Britain’s effort to revive its atomic industry. The company will book a loss of about 300 billion yen ($2.8 billion) after suspending indefinitely its plans to build …

Bloomberg The Trump administration’s decision to keep issuing oil drilling permits during the government shutdown is putting those authorisations in legal jeopardy, environmentalists argued in a filing. The Bureau of Land Management has already violated a federal spending law and legal requirements for public consultation by issuing at least 153 drilling permits since the shutdown began on December 22, WildEarth …