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Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc is attempting to market some of its natural gas as clean energy, packaging it with credits for eco-friendly projects that offset pollution coming from the fuel. The oil giant is offering business customers in Europe a combination of gas and certificates that show emissions are offset with financing for carbon-reduction projects. It’s testing markets in ...

Bloomberg Italian power giant Enel SpA won a highly contested multibillion-dollar battle for AES Corp.’s Brazilian utility in a move that will more than double its presence in the country’s electricity distribution market. Enel’s 45.22 reais-a-share ($12.14) offer for Eletropaulo SA topped a final one by leading rival Iberdrola SA of Spain in sealed bids opened on the Sao Paulo ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co. is moving closer to a sale of its industrial gas-engine business for more than $3.5 billion after narrowing the list of bidders, according to people familiar with the matter. Manufacturers Cummins Inc. and Kohler Co., as well as a group comprised of investment firms KKR & Co. and B&C Industrieholding GmbH, advanced to the next round ...

Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son wants his company to grow for 300 years, and he’s willing to pour billions of dollars into far-out technology to make it happen. General Motors Co., a business that is already more than a century old, is now part of that plan. GM said that the SoftBank Vision Fund is investing $2.25 billion in ...

Bloomberg Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, said Chinese regulatory authority representatives visited its offices in that country, potentially opening another front in a growing trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies. “Micron confirms that China’s State Administration for Market Regulation authorities visited Micron’s China sales offices on May 31 seeking certain information,” the ...

Bloomberg The European Union complained to the World Trade Organization (WTO) about China’s technology-transfer practices in a surprise move that adds to US political pressure on Beijing. On the same day it filed a WTO complaint over US metal tariffs, the EU turned to the global trade arbiter to challenge Chinese intellectual-property (IP)legislation that forces European companies going to China ...

Bloomberg Reliance Communications Ltd. soared in Mumbai trading after it settled a payment dispute with the local unit of Ericsson AB, allowing the debt-laden phone operator to proceed with a planned asset sale to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. and possibly stave off insolvency. RCom, as the company is known, advanced 6.6 percent to close at 18.65 rupees in Mumbai after ...

Bloomberg Spain’s Grupo Barcelo is considering an offer for HNA Group Co.’s $780 million stake in NH Hotel Group SA, people familiar with the matter said, setting up a potential challenge to Minor International Pcl’s pursuit of the hospitality operator. Closely held Barcelo is working with advisory firm Alantra Partners SA as it weighs a bid for the Chinese conglomerate’s ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump ordered his energy secretary to take immediate action to stem power plant closures, arguing that a decline in coal and nuclear electricity is putting the nation’s security at risk. “Impending retirements of fuel-secure power facilities are leading to a rapid depletion of a critical part of our nation’s energy mix and impacting the resilience of our ...

Bloomberg Euro-area inflation hit the fastest pace in more than year, some good news for European Central Bank officials debating the future policy path just as turmoil in Italy revives memories of the debt crisis. The 1.9 percent rate, effectively in line with the ECB’s goal, was up from just 1.2 percent in April and above the 1.6 percent reading ...