Bloomberg After years building out export capacity and hiring traders, producers of liquefied natural gas and commodity trading houses are seizing on an unprecedented surge in the price of the fuel. The combination of a severe cold snap in Asia, supply outages and maritime congestion has propelled spot prices for LNG to previously unforeseen heights. The North Asian price benchmark …

Bloomberg The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been largely silent on the financial wreckage of the US shale industry in recent years, but that may be about to change. The top US financial regulator’s reported investigation into how Exxon Mobil Corp values shale assets follows years of concerns about the industry’s rosy projections, which have left hundreds of billions …

Bloomberg When Boeing Co ended a long commercial drought last month by handing over 737 Max jets to two top customers, the transactions marked a little-noticed break with tradition. The planes were built in 2019 but recorded as 2020 models when they were delivered, having sat dormant during the longest jetliner grounding in US history. The seemingly innocuous distinction could …