Bloomberg India needs to resume subsidies on imported natural gas to help revive power plants that have been stranded for want of fuel and could turn into bad assets for banks, according to a lawmakers’ report. The federal government should supply the gas at lower than market rates by utilising funds from the so-called Power System Development Fund or from ...

Bloomberg Big US companies are paying higher risk premiums when they borrow and finding less demand for their bonds, a sign that investors are worried about rising wages and slow- ing economic growth hitting corporate profit growth. Companies are responding by borrowing less: they sold around $8 billion of US investment-grade debt last month, about a seventh of the average ...

Bloomberg Just as the pharmaceutical industry’s biggest conference of the year is set to get under way, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to complain that drugmakers aren’t “living up to their commitments on pricing.” Despite talk about halting increases and lowering the price on some treatments, pharmaceutical companies on January 1 returned to the practice of regular price hikes ...