Bloomberg GreenWish Partners, a Paris-based independent power producer, will invest $280 million to build solar-power plants in Nigeria that are expected to start producing electricity in the first quarter of next year. A plant in the southeastern state of Enugu will produce 100 megawatts, while the company will build two others of 50 megawatts each in the northern Kaduna …

  Bloomberg Oil fell as US drilling continued to rise, undermining the potential for even an extended OPEC output-reduction deal to rebalance the market. Futures lost as much as 1.6 percent in New York after gaining 0.6 percent last week. Producers added more oil rigs to US fields, extending a drilling surge into a 10th month, Baker Hughes Inc. said. …

  Bloomberg China Shenhua Energy Co., the biggest coal miner in the world’s largest producer, jumped the most since 2008 after rewarding investors with a special dividend as it posted its first profit growth in four years. Shares in Hong Kong closed 16 percent higher at HK$19.14, paring earlier gains of more than 20 percent. The city’s benchmark Hang Seng …