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Cheap-energy drive seen risking UK climate goals

Bloomberg Britain’s zeal to protect consumers from higher energy prices may be about to upend measures to rein in fossil-fuel pollution. Power grid operators warned they won’t be able to break even on future investments to upgrade the electricity system if a proposal to slash authorized profit margins takes effect. Backing that view is Moody’s Investors Service, which said tighter ...

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Suitor for India’s Fortis revises bid

Bloomberg Fortis Healthcare Ltd. received a revised takeover offer from its first suitor, an Indian company backed by private equity firm TPG, ahead of a board meeting to decide a winner in the bidding war for the country’s second-largest hospital chain. Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. has proposed merging with Fortis in a deal that will value the latter at 83.58 ...

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Thai crude explorer eyes assets worth $1bn

Bloomberg Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production Pcl is ready to shell out as much as $1 billion on an overseas petroleum asset this year, and possibly more, as it tries to prop up growth amid falling reserves. The upstream unit of state-controlled PTT Pcl is in talks to purchase a stake in oil, natural gas or liquefied natural gas assets ...

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