Bloomberg OPEC and Russia will meet in Saudi Arabia this week after all but banishing a global oil glut. While looming political crises threaten to tighten supplies further, the group seems determined to keep its cuts in place. Almost 16 months of output curbs by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners have seen crude rally to a …

Bloomberg US stocks edged higher as investors parsed a mixed bag of earnings and energy producers got a boost from rising oil prices. Treasuries fell. The S&P 500 Index gained for a third day, but technology shares were under pressure as IBM Corp. tumbled after posting weak results. Morgan Stanley’s record profit lifted bank shares. Oil surged about 2 percent …

Bloomberg Nasdaq Inc. is reviewing its systems to avoid a repeat of an hours-long shutdown in trading across the Nordic and Baltic markets, which prompted regulators to question its preparedness and forced Sweden to postpone a bond auction. Trading went down on Wednesday morning across the region and didn’t start up after an “errant fire extinguisher system” caused “connectivity issues” …