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  Bloomberg Heavy smog has blanketed a third of China’s cities, including its capital Beijing, with 62 issuing health alerts since Jan. 1, officials said. The hazardous air has forced hundreds of flight cancellations or delays and is forecast to linger into the weekend in some areas. The concentration of PM2.5 particles — which pose the greatest health risks because ...

  BEIJING / AP Other investors are wary of Brazil, but when Duke Energy wanted to sell 10 hydroelectric dams there, a Chinese utility shrugged off the country’s economic turmoil and paid $1.2 billion to add them to an energy empire that stretches from Malaysia to Germany to the Amazon. State-owned China Three Gorges Group is spending heavily to buy ...

  Bloomberg Swim or sink: That’s the message shipping executives in Asia are taking into the new year. Faced with a prolonged trade slowdown and depressed freight rates, the region’s container lines are set for further consolidation after a year that’s seen the collapse of South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co., a mega merger among Japanese rivals and the sale of ...

  Bloomberg Shares of Toshiba Corp. recovered from an early dive after the Asahi newspaper reported regulatory concerns about the company’s earnings. Toshiba rose 2.3 percent to 289.6 yen as of 11:13 a.m. in Tokyo after slumping as much as 6.9 percent in early trade. Japan’s Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission suspects the company padded earnings by about 40 billion ...

  Bloomberg Euro-area inflation accelerated in December at the fastest pace since 2013, suggesting that a debate about the appropriate degree of European Central Bank stimulus is about to gather momentum. Consumer prices rose 1.1 percent from a year earlier, following a 0.6 percent gain in November, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg said on Wednesday. That’s above a ...

  Bloomberg Tesla Motors Inc. reported fourth-quarter deliveries that fell short of its own forecasts, sending shares lower in after-market trading, as production delays continue to plague the carmaker led by Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk. The Palo Alto, California-based maker of electric cars and energy-storage products delivered about 22,200 vehicles in the final three months of last year, according ...

  Bloomberg Manhattan resale home prices tumbled by the most in more than four years, a sign that sellers are lowering their expectations in a slowing market where buyers have the option to walk away. The median price of previously owned condominiums and co-ops fell 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier to $900,000, according to a ...

  Bloomberg AT&T Inc. has reached speeds of up to 14 gigabits a second in lab trials of 5G wireless technology, and plans to test the high-speed network by beaming its DirecTV Now video service to homes in Austin, Texas before midyear. Through a collaboration with a dozen partners including Intel Corp., Ericsson AB and Qualcomm Inc., AT&T plans to ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Municipality has organised a ceremony entitled, “Together, Let’s Innovate” to honour employees who submitted innovative suggestions under the DM’s Suggestion Scheme. The corporate suggestion scheme, with the slogan, “Have Your Say”, picked up 89 winning ideas which were implemented by the civic body, resulting in performance enhancement as well as material savings and income for ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Investments has broken ground on the Mirdif Hills project, being developed by its subsidiary, Dubai Investments Real Estate Company (DIRC). The AED3 billion Mirdif Hills is a mixed-use residential, commercial and retail development spread across 3.9 million square feet and equipped with 1,054 apartments. The ground-breaking ceremony was held onsite in the presence of Khalid ...