Bloomberg Shale explorers parked more drilling rigs in the US this week as stagnant oil prices push the industry to extend a historic retrenchment. The number of active oil rigs in US fields fell by 4 to 172, according to Baker Hughes data. That’s the lowest level of activity since 2005, before the shale boom kicked off. The worst may ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has ordered the Chinese owner of the popular music video app TikTok to sell its US assets, citing national security concerns and delivering the latest salvo in his standoff with Beijing. Trump’s decision came after an investigation by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, which reviews acquisitions of American businesses by overseas investors for ...

Bloomberg The UK government’s bailout talks with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Tata Steel Ltd. recently broke off, the Financial Times reported, citing people it didn’t identify. Talks between the UK’s Treasury and the companies, both owned by Mumbai-based Tata Group, came to a halt after the government concluded the Indian multinational was sufficiently financed and didn’t qualify for taxpayer ...