Bloomberg Oil traded below $45 a barrel following a fourth weekly loss as US drillers continued to add rigs, blunting OPEC-led efforts to rebalance an oversupplied market. Futures fell as much as 0.7 percent in New York after capping the longest run of weekly declines since August 2015. US drillers targeting crude added rigs for a 22nd straight week, the …

CAIRO­­­­ / Reuters Saudi Arabia is banning imports of Egyptian strawberries due to pesticide residues, said Abdel Hamid al-Demerdash, the head of Egypt’s Agriculture Export Council, the latest such ban to hit Egypt as it struggles to revive its economy. The temporary ban comes into effect on July 11, Demerdash told Reuters, adding that the memo received from Saudi Arabia …

Bloomberg In the tight-knit Outback town of Narrabri, the cold-shoulder treatment farmer Peter Gett has felt over the natural gas wells on his property has shown him that promoting Australia’s energy security comes at a cost. The fifth-generation wheat grower opened gates and cleared tracks to smooth a path for exploration of the gas reserves beneath his farm. Seven years …