Bloomberg Oil advanced for a fourth day in New York, its longest run of gains in a month, on estimates that US crude inventories continued their decline from record levels seen earlier this year. Futures added as much as 1.2 percent after rising 2 percent in the previous three sessions. Inventories probably dropped by 2.25 million barrels last week, a ...

Bloomberg Three out of four oil and natural gas companies fell victim to at least one cyber attack last year as hacking efforts against the industry become more frequent and sophisticated. That’s the finding from a report released by industry consultant Deloitte LLP. Technology advances, such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s recent control of operations in Argentina from an operating ...

Bloomberg A trade complaint asking the Trump administration to impose tariffs on solar panels could devastate the US industry, wiping out two-thirds of solar systems forecast to be installed over the next five years, according to a report by GTM Research. The case, filed by bankrupt panel manufacturer Suniva Inc., would cause equipment prices to spike in the US and ...

Bloomberg Sixteen months after sending the first cargo of US shale gas overseas, Cheniere Energy Inc. is already preparing to be at the forefront of the next wave of export projects. Cheniere is exploring new ways to finance additional terminals that chill gas to a liquid and ship it across the globe, including skipping the banks and going to other ...

Bloomberg India’s new goods and services tax will spark a flood of litigation on everything from which tax brackets companies fall into to the revenue they generate, some of the country’s top lawyers predict. The complex nature of India’s GST — which has four tax brackets ranging from five percent to 28 percent — is bound to attract thousands of ...

Bloomberg Cotton output in India, the world’s biggest grower, may increase to a three-year high as some farmers plant more of the fiber on better returns compared to other crops. Production will probably climb to 37.5 million to 38 million bales in the harvesting season starting Oct. 1, from 34.1 million bales a year earlier if the monsoon is normal ...

Bloomberg The earliest indicators for China’s economy in June signal that the manufacturing sector may be poised to decelerate, while other challenges loom in the second half of this year. Small- and medium-sized enterprises showed the lowest level of confidence in 16 months, a gauge of manufacturing drawn from satellite imagery slumped, and conditions in the steel business remained lackluster. ...

Bloomberg Glencore Plc’s years-long pursuit for a bigger Australian coal business was delivered another setback after Rio Tinto Group passed on the company’s offer for a second time. Now the mining giant run by a former coal trader is running out of time to come back with a better offer or lose out on a deal the company has chased ...

Bloomberg Google lost its biggest regulatory battle yet, getting a record 2.4 billion-euro ($2.7 billion) fine from European Union enforcers who say the search-engine giant skewed results to thwart smaller shopping search services. Alphabet Inc.’s Google has 90 days to “stop its illegal conduct” and give equal treatment to rival price-comparison services, according to a binding order from the European ...

Bloomberg The Navajo generating station, the biggest coal-fired power plant in the US West, may live to see another two years. On Monday, Navajo Nation leaders agreed to a deal with the plant’s utility owners that, as originally proposed, could keep the ailing, 2,250-megawatt complex online through December 2019. It would buy the tribe more time to try to attract ...