Bloomberg Shenhua Group Corp., China’s biggest coal miner, and China Guodian Corp., one of the nation’s largest coal-fired power generators, are in merger discussions, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The talks are preliminary and the merger may not go ahead, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public. The Hong Kong-listed …

Bloomberg Eni SpA led a group that signed off on a $7 billion investment in a project to export natural gas from Mozambique. The country’s President Filipe Nyusi and Eni Chief Executive Officer Claudio Descalzi attended a ceremony in the capital Maputo to formally approve the Coral South liquefied natural gas project. Once built, the floating LNG plant, with a …

Bloomberg The good news from OPEC wasn’t good enough. Hedge funds trimmed bets on rising crude prices to the lowest level since November as oil futures dipped below $50 a barrel amid skepticism an OPEC-led campaign to cut output will soon curb a worldwide supply glut. Speculators fled bearish positions for a second week. During the reporting period, the Organization …