Bloomberg More than 6,000 workers cycle through the world’s biggest nuclear plant every day to operate and maintain a facility that hasn’t sold a kilowatt of electricity in more than four years. The buzz at Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant plays out daily across Japan, where utilities employ thousands of workers and spend billions of dollars ...

  Bloomberg Have you been mixing up your Chinese debt with your Chinese leverage? If so, economists at Nomura Holdings Inc. want you to stop that right now. In a note published this week, they argue that the conventional wisdom that “debt” and “leverage” are basically the same doesn’t really work for the world’s second-largest economy. In fact, the two ...

  Bloomberg A Singapore-based shipping trust that operates container ships is asking creditors for leniency on about $253 million of debt, in the latest sign of debt woes in the industry and in the city-state. Rickmers Maritime won’t be able to repay $179.7 million of senior debt due in March 2017 and the interest and principal on S$100 million ($73.3 ...