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UK gas plunges as cargoes sail to oversupplied Europe

Bloomberg Cargoes from around the world filled with liquefied natural gas are sailing to Europe just when the region doesn’t really need them. Same-day gas in the UK fell the most since October as forecasts for the week showed summer is arriving early, weakening demand for the heating fuel. That comes just as LNG vessels that set sail for Europe …

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EU finalizes Brexit position as UK threatens to quit talks

Bloomberg European Union ministers finalized their Brexit negotiating position a day after the UK threatened to quit talks on its departure unless the bloc drops its demands for a divorce payment as high as 100 billion euros ($112 billion). Governments of 27 remaining nations approved their mandate for EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier at a two-hour meeting in Brussels. The …

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China may find its new empire too hard to handle

To Indian eyes, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s big One Belt One Road Belt (OROB) Forum — which attracted 29 heads of government and representatives of 130 countries — looked awfully familiar. It looked, in fact, like an imperial durbar — the sort of grand spectacle that the British in India used to arrange periodically, with princelings from across the subcontinent …

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