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Bloomberg China’s push to eradicate smog by using more natural gas is set to get a boost as it pushes ahead with a plan to merge under one company a national pipeline network that would unify transport and investment decisions. Regulators are aiming to announce a decision before winter to combine oil and gas pipeline assets owned by its three ...

Bloomberg Russia is showing signs of weakening its commitment to oil-supply cuts as production rises before crucial talks with OPEC about the future of the agreement. The nation boosted crude supply to the highest in 14 months in the first week of June as some companies breached their caps, said a person with knowledge of the matter. While both the ...

Bloomberg Sempra Energy shares had their biggest ever intraday gain as Elliott Management Corp. and Bluescape Resources called for a sweeping overhaul, including selling the company’s Mexican and South American utilities and spinning off its US liquefied natural gas business. The two activist funds together hold a 4.9 percent interest in Sempra — whose assets include San Diego Gas & ...

Bloomberg China’s restaurant review and delivery giant Meituan Dianping plans to file for an initial public offering of about $6 billion in Hong Kong as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the matter, the city’s second multibillion-dollar public listing by a tech startup this year. The company is considering selling about 10 percent of the company, the ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s National Assembly has passed a cybersecurity law requiring companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. to store all data of Vietnam-based users in the country and open local offices. The measure has drawn rare dissent from some lawmakers and government leaders as well as local tech groups, who sent a petition to the legislature that warned ...

Bloomberg Who’s at fault for Videocon Industries Ltd.’s 39 billion rupees ($579 million) debt pile? The Indian maker of consumer appliances is casting the blame on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the nation’s top court and the Brazilian government. A bankruptcy court admitted an insolvency petition filed by creditors, led by State Bank of India against Videocon, and ordered debt reorganisers ...

Bloomberg Kaveri Seed Co., which competes with Monsanto Co. to sell hybrid seeds in India, is seeking a bigger share of the food crop market to reduce dependence on cotton seed, its breadwinner. The company gets about 60 percent of revenue from cotton seed sales and the remainder from vegetable seeds and grains including paddy and corn. It aims to ...

Bloomberg Chinese serial entrepreneur Lei Jun has been compared with Steve Jobs. Now, analysts are saying the smartphone giant he built could be twice as expensive as Apple Inc. Xiaomi Corp. deserves to trade at a premium to global phone brands due to its market-share gains and faster growth trajectory, according to research from Morgan Stanley, one of banks leading ...

Bloomberg Almost three decades ago, BlackRock Inc. created software to obsessively monitor the then-fledgling firm’s financial risks. Now, after turning it into an essential tool on Wall Street, the firm is zeroing in another kind of client: financial advisers. The world’s largest asset manager is marketing its risk analytics software, known as Aladdin, to the army of wealth managers who ...

Bloomberg Private equity firm KKR & Co. will buy Envision Healthcare Corp. for $5.57 billion plus debt, after a lengthy sale process by the hospital staffing and surgical center company. Including debt, the all-cash purchase will value Envision at $9.9 billion, the health-care company said in a statement. Envision said the $46-a-share price represents a 32 percent premium to its ...