MOSCOW / WAM France won the World Cup Russia in a thrilling final with Croatia at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadiumon on Sunday. France overwhelmed Croatia 4-2 to be FIFA World Cup 2018 champion for second time, after winning in 1998. Croatia was playing in its first World Cup final. For France, it was a first World Cup crown since winning on …

Bloomberg Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent oil trader, is among firms considering bids for Spanish oil company Cepsa Trading SA as its owner weighs alternatives to an initial public offering planned for later this year, according to people familiar with the matter. Cepsa, owned by Abu Dhabi wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co, could be valued at around 10 billion …

Bloomberg India, the world’s fastest growing oil consumer, is bucking an emerging market trend of populist measures to curb surging oil prices. While governments in Indonesia, Brazil and elsewhere are cutting or freezing prices, India is standing its ground on gasoline and diesel costs even after they rose as much as 16 percent this year. India has, so far, resisted …

Bloomberg OPEC’s Gulf members may need to pump almost as much crude as they can to cover swelling supply losses from Venezuela to Iran and beyond, the International Energy Agency said. “Rising production from Middle East Gulf countries and Russia, welcome though it is, comes at the expense of the world’s spare-capacity cushion, which might be stretched to the limit,” …

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp quit the American Legislative Exchange Council, a lobbying group bankrolled by fossil fuel companies, following a disagreement over climate-change policy. The oil giant won’t be renewing its membership after it expired in June, spokesman Scott Silvestri said by phone. Exxon had a public spat with ALEC in December when some members backed by climate skeptics such …

Bloomberg Ontario Premier Doug Ford vowed to cancel and wind down more than 750 contracts for renewable power projects, making good on a campaign pledge to revamp the province’s energy policies. Terminating the early-stage projects, which the government didn’t identify, would save electricity customers in the Canadian province C$790 million ($600 million), Ford’s energy minister, Greg Rickford, said in a …

Bloomberg Solar tariffs in India remained at record lows in the country’s largest federal auction of 3 gigawatts of projects, according to state-run Solar Energy Corp. of India. Acme Solar Holdings Ltd. won 600 megawatts of projects at the lowest tariff of 2.44 rupees a kilowatt-hour, the record low hit last May and then again in an auction earlier this …

Bloomberg Oil companies operating in the central US want oil to average $69 a barrel before they’ll substantially expand drilling, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. That’s up from $56 a year earlier, according to a survey of firms released by the Kansas City Fed, which serves all or parts of seven states from Nebraska to New …

Bloomberg The Nasdaq 100 is at a record, stocks have just strung together two straight weeks of gains and one of the best earnings seasons in a decade is at hand. Bears vanquished? Not entirely. While benchmark measures of volatility are as calm as they’ve been in five months, among individual stocks anxiety is running high. It’s showing up in …

Bloomberg The Japanese stock market got an extra lift around 10:30 am on July 12 in Tokyo. China had started trading, and it had opened higher. But that was a rare lucky day for investors who got used to losses this year, with the Topix index becoming one of the worst performers among developed-market gauges. As the US-China trade conflict …