Bloomberg CleanCapital, a New York-based renewables investor that manages more than $500 million in assets, is looking to raise up to $500 million in corporate equity to invest in solar and battery-storage projects. The company is talking to pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign-wealth funds and infrastructure funds focussed on North America that are seeking long-term investments, said CEO Thomas Byrne. …

Bloomberg Australia will invest $154 million in new diesel storage facilities and introduce other measures aimed at shoring up the nation’s struggling refining industry and bolstering domestic fuel security. A$200 million will be used to create an additional 780 megalitres (4.9 million barrels) of onshore diesel storage space, Angus Taylor, the country’s minister for energy and emissions reduction, said in …

Bloomberg The hedge fund Citadel Advisors, United Airlines and a Salvadoran air mogul are among investors offering loans as part of Latin American airline Avianca Holdings’s $2 billion bankruptcy financing plan, according to court documents. The companies, which were stakeholders in the carrier before it filed for Chapter 11 protection in May, would help provide about $722 million in loans. …

Bloomberg Walmart Inc will recruit more than 20,000 workers ahead of the US holidays to prepare for an expected surge in online shopping amid the pandemic, its first large seasonal hiring in five years. The world’s biggest retailer is readying itself for a holiday e-commerce battle with Amazon.com Inc by bringing on more seasonal staff to handle online orders at …

Bloomberg Nike Inc rallied in late trading after the world’s largest sportswear maker returned to profit and posted far better revenue than predicted, a sign it’s swiftly bouncing back from the pandemic slump. Revenue amounted to $10.6 billion in its fiscal first quarter, Nike said, compared with the $9.11 billion estimate of analysts. The company posted 95 cents a share …

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc fell to its lowest in 17 years after detailing a plan to raise as much as 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) to brace against a drought in demand for aircraft engines. Shares of the UK company slid for a fifth straight session on September 21, dropping as much as 12% after saying two days earlier it’s …

Bloomberg Transat AT Inc, hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, dropped to an eight-year low as investors bet against a travel recovery and the completion of a takeover by Air Canada. Shares of Montreal-based Transat have slumped every trading day this month except one. The stock’s 13-session losing streak is its longest since 2008. Transat has lost about C$475 million …

Bloomberg FedEx Corp is looking at using small self-flying cargo planes to serve remote areas after experimenting with a technology startup on autonomous aircraft, said Chief Executive Officer Fred Smith. The effort builds on the courier’s work with Silicon Valley’s Reliable Robotics, which was founded by veterans of Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. With approval from the US Federal …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. is moving about 200 billion euros ($230 billion) from the UK to Frankfurt as a result of Britain’s exit from the European Union, a shift that will make it one of the largest banks in Germany. The US bank plans to finish the migration of the assets to its Frankfurt-based subsidiary by the end of …

Bloomberg Banks from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to HSBC Holdings Plc have hit pause on plans to return workers in London after Prime Minister Boris Johnson appealed to Britons to work from home to help tame a resurgent coronavirus. Goldman Sachs is encouraging its London employees to go back to working remotely if possible, though its Plumtree Court office will …