Bloomberg Glencore Plc is close to a $1 billion deal to buy Chevron Corp.’s southern African assets, potentially scuppering an earlier agreement with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., according to three people familiar with the matter. The Switzerland-based miner and trader will complete the deal within the next six weeks, said one of the people who asked not to be …

Bloomberg Just weeks after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission launched a sweeping review of its natural gas pipeline policy, its members are again split on the extent to which they should take climate change into account. In the latest clash, the commission’s Republican members voted to dismiss an environmental group’s challenge to Dominion Energy Inc.’s New Market gas pipeline in …

Bloomberg A degree of risk appetite returned to global markets on Tuesday, with developing-nation stocks and currencies rebounding and Italian bonds climbing. The dollar fell as Treasury yields climbed, and the pound advanced. US equity futures pointed to a higher open and the Stoxx Europe 600 Index nudged upward after the MSCI Asia Pacific gauge eked out a gain in …