Bloomberg Oil’s set for its biggest monthly drop since 2016 as the specter of a slowdown in the global economy haunts the market while US inventories grow and producers relay mixed signals. Futures in New York are poised for an 8.8 percent drop in October, following two months of gains. A global equity rout and an escalating US-China trade war …

Bloomberg India will sell as much as 9 percent in monopoly miner Coal India Ltd. in a public offer starting on Wednesday, according to a regulatory filing by the country’s coal ministry. The federal government, which owns 78.55 percent in the world’s largest coal producer, will sell a 3 percent stake, or 186.22 million shares, with an option to sell …

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan stayed the course on monetary stimulus while confirming in updated forecasts that it won’t meet its inflation target for years to come. The central bank left its policy interest rates and asset-purchase targets unchanged, while forecasting that inflation will remain below its 2 percent target until at least early 2021. This will leave it even …