Bloomberg Brazil’s biggest wind company has set its sights on dominating the country’s nascent solar market. CPFL Energias Renovaveis SA has 1 megawatt of solar power in operation now, a pilot project in Sao Paulo State, but has plans to build another 450 megawatts. That’s a lot in a country where there’s only 1,300 megawatts of solar panels running, compared ...

Bloomberg Lebanon granted its first offshore energy rights to a group comprising Total SA, Eni SpA and Novatek PJSC, joining a regional race to find and develop oil and natural gas wealth in the eastern Mediterranean after years of delay. The cabinet awarded two licenses in its first offshore bidding round, allowing the companies to jointly explore blocks 4 and ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s stock exchange proposed to let “innovative” companies list in the Chinese enclave with dual-class share structures to avoid losing out on more initial public offerings by technology giants like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Allowing shares with extra voting power is part of a package of measures that may be the biggest change to the exchange’s listing rules ...

Bloomberg Go-Jek, Indonesia’s biggest ride-hailing service, agreed to acquire three local financial-technology companies, underscoring its ambition to become the dominant player in the country’s nascent digital-payments industry. The deals bring together Kartuku, Indonesia’s largest offline payments-processing company; Midtrans, the nation’s top online-payment gateway; and Mapan, a local community-based saving and lending network, Go-Jek said. Go-Jek and the three companies now ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in China’s Yonghui Superstores Co. for about $639 million, joining rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in teaming up with a bricks-and-mortar retailer. Shenzhen-based Tencent is buying about 478.5 million shares from existing shareholders at 8.81 yuan apiece, Yonghui said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange. The price ...

Bloomberg The first phase of Brexit talks is done. Now comes the hard part. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has secured agreement from the European Union to move on from discussing the divorce terms to mapping out a plan for the future trade relationship. Before that, she wants to nail down a transition deal as soon as possible. This is ...

Bloomberg BMW AG’s needs for car-battery raw materials such as cobalt and lithium will surge 10-fold by the middle of the next decade, pushing the German carmaker increasingly to forge long-term deals as shortages loom. Purchase contracts with five- to 10-year time frames are close to being completed, the manufacturer’s head of procurement told reporters in Munich. Concerns about supply ...

Bloomberg China wants to deepen financial and investment links with the UK as Britain seeks to boost two-way trade once it leaves the European Union. Vice Premier Ma Kai said both countries should also push cooperation to a new level in areas including nuclear-power generation, manufacturing, high-speed rail, high-end manufacturing, and trade and investment liberalisation. “The United Kingdom has obvious ...

Bloomberg Fresh details of Uber Technologies Inc.’s alleged surveillance tactics and in particular its scraping of competitors’ information from the internet were revealed in a court filing. Prosecutors involved in a criminal investigation of Uber learned of the tactics from a former manager of the company’s global intelligence unit who had documented them in a letter to an in-house lawyer ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called out Russia and China at the UN for giving North Korea an economic lifeline, even as the top US diplomat struggled to staunch confusion over the US position on conditions for talks with Kim Jong Un’s regime. Addressing the United Nations Security Council, Tillerson said China and Russia’s refusal to sever ties with ...