Bloomberg Energy companies long-spu-rned by institutional investors are crawling back into favour. After declining for most of the past decade, energy made up just 6.4 percent of institutional investors’ holdings at the end of the first quarter, Royal Bank of Canada analysts wrote in a May note, citing company filings. That’s beginning to turn around with US benchmark crude up …

Bloomberg China National Petroleum Corp plans to help complete a refinery in Rio de Janeiro that already cost Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras $14 billion before it was halted amid a widespread graft investigation. CNPC, as the Chinese producer is known, signed a letter of intent adding the Comperj refinery to a partnership the two companies signed last year. The …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is considering a plan to inject up to $300 million into a troubled steel pipe factory co-owned by ArcelorMittal, according to people familiar with the matter. The Public Investment Fund is looking at doubling its stake in ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Jubail to 40 percent by buying new shares and converting debt to equity, the …