Bloomberg Indonesia banned an annual ritual of citizens travelling in large numbers to their hometowns and villages ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. President Joko Widodo, who announced the ban at a cabinet meeting in Jakarta, said the prohibition was based on an assessment that about ...

Bloomberg A historic crash in crude prices is driving US shale into full-on retreat with operators halting new drilling and shutting in old wells, moves that could cut output by 20% for the world’s biggest producer of oil. For shale companies, the price of West Texas Intermediate crude went from hunker-down-and-ride-it-out mode to crisis mode in just a few days, ...

Bloomberg Chevron Corp will be forced to effectively wind down its operations in Venezuela, dealing the Maduro regime’s crumbling oil industry another blow as US President Donald Trump maneuvers for regime change in the Latin American nation. The US Treasury Department will no longer allow the company to drill wells, sell and buy crude oil or oil products or transport ...