Bloomberg Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown said corporate maneuvers that favor shareholders and company executives are to blame for safety lapses leading up to a train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals in a town in his home state. “This is the same old story — corporations do stock buybacks, they do big dividend checks, and they lay off workers,” Brown ...

  Bloomberg European natural gas prices rose on the prospect of a late-winter cold snap, after falling last week to the lowest level in almost 18 months. Benchmark futures advanced as much as 5.4% after dropping below €50 on Friday. Temperatures in cities including London and Madrid could fall from unseasonably high levels by the end of the week, with ...

  Bloomberg US government incentives to promote investments into nascent technologies such as green hydrogen will have a “healthy” impact, even as they risk distorting the trade in electric cars between Europe and the US, Bill Gates said. Speaking in a podcast interview with the head of Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, Nicolai Tangen, Gates extolled government policies for ...