Bloomberg Google, already the world’s biggest corporate buyer of wind and solar power, may soon be making another clean energy bet — this time, on batteries. “We would like to do something in 2018,” Neha Palmer, head of energy strategy at the Alphabet Inc. unit, said in an interview at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy summit in …

Bloomberg US stocks fell and Treasuries rose as global financial markets turned cautious amid rising tension in the Middle East and renewed political discord in America. The dollar stayed lower as a key gauge of inflation accelerated. All major equity indexes were lower after President Donald Trump’s provocative comments about Russia and his warning that America’s preparing to attack Syria. …

Reuters Egyptian real estate stocks surged on Wednesday after two big companies in the sector said they might merge, while Saudi Arabia fell sharply after US President Donald Trump threatened imminent military action in Syria. In Egypt, the stock index gained 1.4 percent as SODIC jumped 5.5 percent to a 10-year closing high and Madinet Nasr for Housing and Development …