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  AP Asian stock markets rose Tuesday after Wall Street sank on worries the Trump administration might not do as much for businesses as once thought. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 gained 1 percent to 19,175.48 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng advanced 0.5 percent to 24,308.32. The Shanghai Composite Index declined 0.4 percent to 3,252.81 while Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 added 0.2 percent ...

  LONDON / AP It’s a resonant moment of European cultural harmony: a Swedish soprano and a pan-European orchestra rehearsing a Bach cantata in a medieval English church. With Britain about to leave the European Union, it’s also a poignant one. The ensemble rehearsing in a York church is the European Union Baroque Orchestra, founded 32 years ago to use classical ...

  Bloomberg Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund plans to expand in the UK and the US, as top officials said long-term commercial opportunities would outweigh political uncertainty roiling the two countries. The gas-rich Gulf emirate will add 5 billion pounds ($6.3 billion) to its UK portfolio in the next three to five years, and will set up an office soon in ...

  Reuters Light crude surged in Canada and the northern US after an oil-sands upgrader shut for maintenance because of a fire and Energy Transfer Partners LP said it was preparing to place the Dakota Access pipeline into service. Synthetic crude’s premium to West Texas Intermediate futures jumped $1.45 to $4.70 a barrel Monday, the strongest in more than a ...

  Bloomberg Oil advanced as OPEC member Libya halted the pipeline from its biggest field, tempering concerns that a surplus in the US continues to expand. West Texas Intermediate futures rose as much as 1.1 percent. Libya’s output has dropped to 560,000 barrels a day following the shutdown of the pipe from the Sharara field, according to a person with ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Aramco could have a market value of more than $1 trillion, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. estimates, after the government slashed the oil producer’s tax burden to attract investors ahead of what may be the world’s biggest initial public offering. The tax cut will increase Aramco’s net income by 300 percent, putting its per-barrel income in a ...

  Bloomberg Businesses are bracing for Brexit by making last-ditch demands of the UK government to keep their interests in mind when Prime Minister Theresa May opens two years of talks with the European Union this week. Concerns include the risk of tariffs on exports to the EU, disruptions to supply chains and the potential loss of European workers. Bloomberg ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump is expected to lift a moratorium on federal coal-mining leases — and it probably won’t do the industry much good until years after he’s left office. That’s because US coal companies including Peab-ody Energy Corp. won’t be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows ...

  Bloomberg Canada’s two biggest gold miners have formed a partnership to develop a gold-copper deposit in Chile as a third producer exits the project. Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. agreed to buy 25 percent of the Cerro Casale in Chile’s Maricunga mineral belt from the world’s largest gold producer, Barrick Gold Corp., reducing the latter’s stake to 50 percent. Under terms ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to energy doesn’t scare Paolo Rocca. The billionaire steel tycoon who controls Tenaris SA, the world’s largest maker of seamless-steel pipes for the energy industry, expects the creation of American jobs at his $2.3 billion plant in Texas will allow his company to continue to import certain types of pipes into the ...