U.S. oil exports lined up: The Commerce Department will allow Pioneer Natural Resources Co. and Enterprise Products Partners to ship an unrefined ultralight oil to foreign buyers, signaling a minor executive branch movement for the first time since the 1970s on selling U.S. oil abroad, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Barnes & Noble schism: The struggling bookseller will split its retail bookstore chain and its Nook e-reader business into separate publicly traded companies, according to Bloomberg News.
