Bloomberg The good news for global natural gas exporters is that India’s largest utility is hunting for new supplies to import. The bad: It’s seeking shorter deals than have been traditional in the past. India now consumes almost 22 million metric tons a year of liquefied natural gas, but that demand could double within just four to five years, according ...

Bloomberg Yingli Green Energy Holding Co., once the world’s biggest solar-panel manufacturer, has been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as its value has plummeted. Trading was suspended after the exchange told Yingli it failed to maintain an average market capitalisation of at least $50 million for 30 consecutive trading days, the Baoding, China-based company said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg Oil posted the biggest weekly rise in more than two months as shrinking stockpiles and supply disruptions from Canada to Libya compounded the growing isolation of OPEC’s third-largest oil producer. Futures advanced 8.1 percent this week in New York, above London-traded Brent crude’s gain of 5.1 percent. The world’s two most important oil benchmarks are diverging as Saudi Arabia’s ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong will charge additional rates on unsold new apartments in a bid to limit hoarding by developers and cool a red-hot property market. Apartments left vacant for more than six months will be charged a 200 percent rate of the rental value, or equivalent to about 5 percent of the unit’s price, according to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, ...

Bloomberg After several quarters on the bench, Nike Inc. has finally healed the damage inflicted by Adidas AG. Nike increased sales in North America for the first time in a year, after its smaller European rival had been outmaneuvering the sneaker giant on its home turf. Nike’s improved performance, sparked by new products and a smartphone shopping app, unleashed a ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s Bali airport resumed services after a halt caused by a fresh eruption at the Mount Agung that sent volcanic ashes several miles high into the sky above the popular tourist island. The airport opened at 2.30 pm local time on June 29, according to its twitter feed. The shutdown, the second in seven months, led to cancellation of ...

Bloomberg China Southern Airlines Co. will invest 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in Xiongan, the new city spearheaded by Chinese president Xi Jinping that aspires to be a model for China’s future urban development. The airline operator will allocate 2.5 billion yuan in cash and 7.5 billion yuan in tangible assets to set up a subsidiary called China Southern Airline ...

Bloomberg Buckle up. The Friday before July 4 may approach a record for the busiest day ever for US airports, the head of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said. Traffic for the day could top 2.6 million passengers, making it “potentially one of the busiest in TSA history,” TSA administrator David Pekoske said. TSA says nine of the top 15 days ...

Bloomberg London Heathrow’s controversial third runway fits within Britain’s plan for reining in fossil-fuel emissions, according to the government’s Committee on Climate Change. “Another runway at Heathrow could be accommodated within those parameters,” said John Gummer, chairman of the committee. Modern technology “ought to give elbow room for about a 60 percent growth in demand,” he said at a briefing ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. will soon land a second supplier for the organic light-emitting diode screens used in high-end iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter, a key step in the US company’s push to reduce iPhone costs and its dependence on Samsung Electronics Co. South Korea’s LG Display Co. will initially supply between 2 million and 4 million units, ...