Bloomberg Oil gained towards $43 a barrel as Laura was predicted to become a major hurricane, menacing crude production and refineries in the US Gulf. Futures in New York edged higher, though gains were outpaced by the global Brent benchmark. Tropical Storm Laura is expected to make landfall on Thursday as a Category 3 hurricane with winds as strong as ...

MADRID / WAM The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres released on Tuesday a thematic brief on the impact the pandemic has had on tourism. Drawing on the latest data from the World Tourism Organisation, the lead author of the publication, it warns that as many as 100 million direct tourism jobs are at risk, and massive drop in export revenues from ...

Bloomberg Octopus Energy Ltd, the clean energy provider, plans to add millions of new customers this decade on a pace that could soon make it the UK’s largest energy supplier. Octopus Energy hopes to reach about 5 million households in the UK by 2025, according to Chief Executive Officer Greg Jackson, up from about 1.6 million today. The British energy ...