Bloomberg Saudi Aramco raised December pricing for sales of its light oil grades to Asia to their highest levels since 2014, just a day after announcing it will sell shares for the first time. The state-owned oil producer increased monthly pricing for shipments of all crudes to the US. Aramco increased its official selling price for flagship Arab Light crude ...

A standard theme in detective thrillers is that the perpetrator feels compelled to return to the scene of the crime. It’s an irrational urge, and readers of such potboilers are often left wondering whether the protagonist secretly wants to get caught. Perhaps we’re living a real-life version of this fictional plot in President Trump’s alleged solicitation of political help from ...

The UK government’s temporary fracking moratorium should turn into a permanent ban. Allowing shale gas extraction makes sense only when a country is still phasing out coal, and then only under certain conditions. But the UK is almost finished with coal, and fracking can only postpone its transition to clean energy. The Conservative government has banned the drilling of new ...